A step-by-step guide to Tisha B'Av observance

B"H


Menachem Av 5, 5772 * July 24, 2012

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Editor's Note:

When I think of summer, I think of parks, ice pops, beaches, vacations, swimming pools, barbecues, sprinklers, music, day trips and lots of happy children. And much of the Northern Hemisphere is enjoying all that right now. We were too—until recently.

Smack in the middle of the summer, we mark the saddest period [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=B30987ADD574F27B165F90B26B7923C9&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] of time on the Jewish calendar. We remember the destruction of the Holy Temples and the subsequent exile in which we still remain. We limit our fun, our eating and our grooming. We are in mourning.

This seems to be a recurrent theme in Jewish life. When a couple marries, the groom breaks a glass under the wedding canopy to remind us of the Destruction. When building a new home, many leave a patch unfinished, again to remind us of Jerusalem's ruin.

Perhaps the message is, "As good as it seems, don't get too comfortable. Our bodies may be okay, but our Jewish souls are horribly misplaced. We belong in Jerusalem, at home, at peace and at one."

With the 9th of Av [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CC54937348BA364449A9BC23B45DD867&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] right around the corner, let's remember why we're here and where we wish to go. If we add just one more mitzvah to our daily doings, perhaps we'll finally get there [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6C0D59B111D3ADD25A8A983325A5981B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ].

Miriam Szokovski,
on behalf of the Chabad.org Editorial Team



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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:

3 WEEKS AND 9 AV

Order of the Day


A step-by-step guide to Tisha B'Av observance. The "separation meal," the book of Lamentations, elegies, prayers, Torah readings, the break-fast and more.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=CC54937348BA364449A9BC23B45DD867&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Special for This Year


On Shabbat, all public displays of mourning are strictly prohibited. This causes changes in many of the Tisha B'Av laws and customs.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F82223EF09CF044D59943188397FDE68&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Dealing with Depression (By Sara Esther Crispe)


I knew I was miserable, and I had plenty of reasons to be, but I hit a low that I had never experienced before and hope never to again . . .

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5DFB8428F92B47A546A0229E0C5F767B&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


How's Your Vision? (By Mendy Herson)


When does one learn to adjust one's expectations and recognize that that dreams are . . . just dreams?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=3317D3FFC2409BC3A2DEAFF31FCC0B78&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


What We Are Missing (By Yanki Tauber)


We philosophized our way to science, and then science led us through the doorway into mysticism. But we still don't know how to live our lives.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=F596737B5AE9DCDF9CF147BEBECF2F48&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Out of Sync (By Yehudis Fishman)


For a large part of my life, I have felt out of sync with my surroundings. On one hand, I guess the sense of disconnect pushed me to go deeper within, but on the other hand it created obvious dissonance.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=97ADE975529FD690A6C4614CB6042A70&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


VIDEO

The Warehouse (video) (By Dovid Taub and DovBer Naiditch)


Two guys alone in a warehouse. But they are not really alone, because there are some others below them (and a suggestion of Someone Above).

WATCH (1:04) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=B58876E6686B60223405A645DF2CC9A3&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Crying Over the Destruction (video) (By Shimon Hecht)


Where were the rest of the Jewish people when Jeremiah was mourning the destruction of the Holy Temple?

WATCH (39:58) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6B61147322E03F75E3BC0A0D34B9BAA0&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Love Your Fellow As Your Fellow Needs (video)


The Mitzvah to "love your fellow as yourself" raises a dilemma. What should you do when your needs are different from your friend's?

WATCH (6:18) >> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=326B7E3A6A07A8E5A54FE49CDF5DF40D&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


PARSHAH

What Is the Book of Deuteronomy? (By Menachem Posner)


The Book of Deuteronomy primarily contains Moses' last will and testament to the Children of Israel as they are poised to enter the Promised Land.

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On False Translations (By Tali Loewenthal)

Translation is a sensitive and possibly dangerous process. Our sages commented that the day the Torah was translated into Greek "was as difficult for the Jewish people as the day when the Golden Calf was made."

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=DD58340B41CA6E33AE129F5DD65E593F&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


Parshah in a Nutshell


For thirty-seven days Moses talks: recalling the revelation at Sinai and their journeys through the desert, about spies and wars and victories and the Land and what it's like to serve as a leader of G-d's chosen people.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=89E7D8F61334E6D1ED4860805A912509&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


STORIES

The Making of a Kabbalist (By Moshe Miller)


Rabbi Yitzchak Luria was undisputedly the greatest practitioner and expounder of Kabbalah since Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Zohar.

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The Power of a Plate of Food (By Yerachmiel Tilles)


The Jews of Vitebsk, if you want to know the truth, were never known to be generous givers of money to charitable causes. But they could always be counted on to provide food for the hungry.

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=38CE78844C6C332FFE0971F3E6D2EC8C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


A Lost Luria (By Dovid Leib Marasow)

On her back, hidden deep inside a sling, the baby boy slept on, blissfully unaware of the cruel world into which he had been born.

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ISSUES OF THE DAY

Judaism and Environmentalism (By Yonatan Neril)


The commandment of Bal Tashchit—do not destroy or waste—has long been considered central to a Jewish environmental ethic. What is the basis for the commandment?

>> http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=191AB3E9440D4C3EF3E14D94CA3697DD&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2


What Is Isaiah Telling Us Today? (By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)


His warning is as timely now as it was twenty-seven centuries ago. When economics and politics are driven by self-interest alone, trust fails and the fabric of society unravels.

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QUESTION

Is This Your Ten Million Dollars? (By Aron Moss)


A rabbi declines the ten-million-dollar lottery prize: says it's "against his principles."

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