Tag: Three Weeks

How We Can Sweeten the Judgments this Tisha B’Av

August 5, 2022July 27, 2023 Simcha Gittel No Comments

BS”D On Tisha B’Av, we face two main, somewhat contradictory themes: aveilus (mourning) and teshuva (repentance). Though the ultimate goal of Tisha B’Av and the three weeks that proceed it is teshuva, the main focus on the ninth day of Av itself is aveilus over the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash. Throughout most of the day,…

Chagim, Getting Out of Galus, Teshuva

Building the Beis HaMikdash from the Inside Out

July 28, 2020July 15, 2021 Simcha Gittel No Comments

BS”D It is written: כל דור שאינו נבנה בימיו מעלין עליו כאילו הוא החריבו Any generation in which [the Temple] was not built in their days, They consider it upon them as if they destroyed it (Yerushalmi, Yoma 5a). In other words, the very same lack of merit the led to the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash…

Chagim, Fundamentals in Judaism