Tag: Churban

The Other Side of TiSha B’Av

TiSha B’Av is often simplistically portrayed as the day when bad things happened to Jewish people throughout the history.  If we examine the events more carefully, we can notice that we aren’t talking simply about negative things that happen out of blue. Tisha B’Av calamities happen on the aftermath of the tremendous opportunities we blew. The day that gave birth…

Beit HaMikdash burning - Destruction of the Temple

What are we missing without BEIT HAMIKDASH – meditations and prayers for Tisha B’Av

B”H By Kabbalist Rav Yitzchak Schwarts 1. The essence and power of grieving over the loss of the Holy Temple We are less than 2 days away from  Tisha B’av—the day of the destruction of both Temples [and a number of other catastrophic events]….The question that keeps coming up every year is, ‘How can we mourn over something that we…