Yom Kippur & Tisha B’Av may share the distinction of being the only night-and-day fasts of the year, but they are as different as.. well, Day & Night. ..
Written by Benjamin A Rose
The Jerusalem Kollel Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovitz Tisha B’av {youtube width=”600″ height=”420″}BL_-wY3Hy0E{/youtube} ..
Written by Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovitz
In considering the possibility of those who wish to build a Third Temple on har haBayis today, Rav Berkowitz shlit”a poses a powerful question: Are we ready ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
I was once told that the meaning of the word Emunah is not just “faith”, as it is commonly translated, but faithfulness. But it was only recently that ..
Written by Daniel King
In the Eye of the Beholder In the Megillah of Eichah (1:12), read on Tisha B’Av, we find the following statement: “Is it nothing to you, all you that ..
Written by Rabbi Yehuda Prero
In his sefer ‘pirkei machshava,’ Rabbi Tauber writes extensively about the role of tragedy. We’ll try to sumarise it with one vort. Chazal relate ..
Written by d fine
The best way to say this is by a vort. In shir hama’alos we say ‘when we will return to Zion we WERE dreaming.’ Why is dreaming in the past tense ..
Written by d fine