17 Tammuz - 9 Av

In memory of Dr. William Major z"l.

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In memory of VBM author Rabbanit Dr. Avigail Rock z"l 

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In memory of Esther Leah Cymbalista z"l
Niftera 7 B'Av 5766 
Dedicated by their family.

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik Sings Eli Tziyon

Click here for 65-part series on Megillat Eikha, by Dr. Yael Ziegler

Click here for audio shiurim on Megillat Eikha, by Dr. Yael Ziegler 

For additional audio shiurim on Tisha BeAv, click here.

 

The Meaning of Redemption, based on a shiur by Harav Yehuda Amital zt"l 

Biblical Poetry and the Book of Eikha (Part I), by Dr. Yael Ziegler

Biblical Poetry and the Book of Eikha (Part II), by Dr. Yael Ziegler

The Seed of Consolation in the Destruction, by Harav Shmuel David

 

 

Halakha
Rav Avi Baumol	Tisha B'Av: A Day of Mourning, A Day of Teshuva
Rav David Brofsky	The Laws of Tisha Be-Av : Erev Tisha Be-Av; the Five Afflictions
Rav David Brofsky	Laws of the Nine Days
Rav David Brofsky	Bein Ha-metzarim: Laws of the Three Weeks
Rav David Brofsky	The Laws of Tisha Be-Av and the Dual Nature of the Day
Rav David Brofsky	The Laws of Tisha Be-Av
Rav Mordechai Friedman	The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
Rav Yair Kahn	When Tisha Be-Av Falls on Shabbat
Rav Tzvi Chaim Kaye	The Prohibition of Studying Torah on Tisha Be-Av
Rav Moshe Pinchuk	Tisha be-Av as a "Mo'ed"
Rav Shabtai Rappaport	The Ninth of Av and Rebuilding the Temple
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon	Tish'a Be'av That Falls out on Sunday
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon	Some Laws of the Nine Days
Rav Binyamin Tabory	Tearing Garments Upon Seeing the Cities of Judea
Rav Binyamin Tabory	Tisha Be-Av on Shabbat
Rav Moshe Taragin	Torah Reading at Mincha on Fast Days
Rav Moshe Taragin	Torah Study on Tisha B'Av
Rav Moshe Taragin	The Aveilut of Tisha B'Av
Rav Moshe Taragin	Blowing Trumpets on A Fast Day: Prayer and Unity
Rav Moshe Taragin	The Issur for an Avel to Attend a Simcha

 

 

Jewish Thought
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l	“Shall I Weep In The Fifth Month?”
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l	Avelut Yeshanah and Avelut Chadashah: Historical and Individual Mourning
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l	“Against the Enemy That Oppresses You”: The Basis of the Historical Fasts
Harav Yehuda Amital zt"l	Why the Temple Was Destroyed
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l	Why Did Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai Weep?
Harav Aharon Lichtenstein zt"l	Love and Hate That are Not Baseless
Rav Ezra Bick	Nevuchadnezer and Chizkiyahu
Rav Yitzchak Blau	Songs of Innocence and Experience
Rav Yitzchak Blau	Responding to Catastrophe
Rav Yitzchak Blau	The Placement of a Blemish and the Placement of an Aggada
Rav Gad Eldad	Tish’a Be-Av as a Festival
Rav Itamar Eldar	R. Nachman on the Causes and Consequences of the Destruction
Rav Yitzchak Etshalom	Sinai and Tziyyon
Dr. Yonatan Feintuch	Aggadot of Redemption: Can We Ask When Mashiach  Will Come?
Dr. Yonatan Feintuch	Aggadot of the Destruction: The Story of Rabbi Tzadok’s Children
Dr. Yonatan Feintuch	Aggadot of the Destruction: The Story of R. Yishmael’s Children
Harav Baruch Gigi	The Sins of the Fathers and of the Sons
Harav Baruch Gigi	Jerusalem - A City that Turns All of Israel into Friends
Rav Yair Kahn	The Secret of Jewish Regeneration
Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein	“Comfort My People, Comfort Them"
Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein	Complementary Reproaches:Two Prophecies on the Destruction
Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein	Repentance or Wailing?
Rav Elyakim Krumbein	You Comfort Me in Vain - A Clarification of the Connection Between Pesach and Tish'a B'Av
Harav Yaakov Medan	The Oral Law and the Secret of Eikha
Rav Yitzchak Levi	What Can we Do to Hasten the Rebuilding of the Temple?
Rav Yitzchak Levi	The Causes of the Destruction of the First Temple - Part 1
Rav Yitzchak Levi	The Causes of the Destruction of the First Temple - Part 2
Rav Yitzchak Levi	The Causes of the Destruction of the First Temple - Part 3
Harav Yaakov Medan	“How Shall I Bear Alone”
Rav Yehuda Shaviv	Punishment and Hope: The Haftora for Tisha B'Av
Rav Yehuda Shaviv	"And Your Faithfulness in the Nights": Faith in Times of Distress
Rav Yehuda Shaviv	The Seven Haftarot of Consolation
Rav Yehuda Shaviv	From Mourning to Comfort
Rav Meir Spiegelman	I Am With Him in Distress
Rav Moshe Taragin	"Shall Kohen and Prophet be Slain in the Sanctuary?"
Rav Moshe Taragin	Eikha: A Verbal Capsule of Jewish History
Rav Moshe Taragin	Eikha - The Password of Tisha Be-Av
Rav Moshe Taragin	Smiling on Tisha Be-Av