No Cholent Thursdays: A Breakdown
What does eating cholent on a Thursday, Tisha B’av, Shabbat, and Jewish law have in common? This might surprise you.
Rabbi Mordechai Rackover
What does eating cholent on a Thursday, Tisha B’av, Shabbat, and Jewish law have in common? This might surprise you.
Can we do work and labor on Tisha B’av? What role do our emotions play in that? The Medieval posek Terumat HaDeshen has an answer.
Tisha B’Av at camp is unlike anywhere else in the Jewish world. So why does Tisha B’Av get so much play at camp?
Rabbi Abramowitz z”l: “…Tish’a be-Av amid the ruins of the Roman Empire [was] fraught with inner meaning and significance…in 1948”
This an exploration of my “temple envy” through the emotions of grief, wonder, and desire for Jewish unity during a recent vacation to Nikko.
A rabbi, familiar with leading others through the process of mourning, goes through the same. Rabbi David Baum remembers his mother.
It is considered forbidden to fast on fast days if injurious to one’s health, for the sake of performing positive commandments.
Rabbi Ilana Garber offers us her nine ways to make the 9th day of Av meaningful that do not involve fasting.
Why is this time, surrounding Tisha B’Av, so important to the modern-day fight against antisemitism, and other forms of hatred and bigotry?
There are three kinds of fasts in Judaism rooted in history and spiritual practice with changes to prayer services.
Tishah Be’av is the saddest day of the Jewish year. We fast, read the Book of Lamentations, and reflect on history.