Bein HaMetzarim & Tisha B'Av

JPS Translation: Book of Lamentations

Yeshivat Har Etzion

  1. TISH'A BE-AV PACKAGE 5759, Part 1
    1. Why was the Temple Destroyed? - A Study in the Maharal's Interpretation of Aggada
      based on a shiur by Harav Yehuda Amital
    2. Tearing Garments Upon Seeing the Cities of Judea, Jerusalem, and the Place of the Temple
      based on a shiur by Rav Binyamin Tabory
  2. TISH'A BE-AV PACKAGE 5759, Part 2
    1. The Prohibition of Torah Study on Tish'a Be-av
      by Rav Moshe Taragin
  3. Halakha
    1. Rav Mordechai Friedman The Three Weeks and the Nine Days (student summary)
    2. Rav Moshe Taragin The Aveilut of Tisha B'Av
    3. The Issur for an Avel to Attend a Simcha
  4. Jewish Thought
    1. Rav Ezra Bick Nevuchadnezer and Chizkiyahu
    2. Rav Elyakim Krumbein You Comfort Me in Vain - A Clarification of the Connection Between Pesach and Tish'a B'Av
    3. Rav Meir Spiegelman I Am With Him in Distress
    4. Rav Yitzchak Etshalom Sinai and Tziyyon

Aaron Ross's Chabura-Net
    Tearing Keriah for Jerusalem

Yitz Etshalom

    Bein haM'tzarim (the "Three Weeks"): Sinai and Tziyyon

MJ-Ravtorah: Rav Joseph Dov Baer Soloveitchik Zt'l

  1. Kinos 5757
  2. Kinos #1 5756
  3. Kinos #2 5756

Judaic Seminar

  1. Tisha B'ab
  2. Taanit Sibur

Bar Ilan Professors

  1. Tishah B'av During the Second Temple Period
    Dr. David Hanschke (1998)

Torah.Org

  1. Shiva Asar B'Tamuz - Why Do We Fast? I (I:27)
  2. Shiva Asar B'Tamuz - Why Do We Fast? II (I:28)
  3. Shiva Asar B'Tamuz: Hidden Yet Loving - Mourning the Destruction (III:10)
  4. Shiva Asar B'Tamuz: The Breaking of the Luchos - A Judgement Call (III:11)
  5. The Three Weeks - Why Do We Mourn (I:29)
  6. The Three Weeks - Points to Ponder (III:12)
  7. The Fasts of 17 Tamuz and 9 Av: A Lesson About Our Psyche (II:15)
  8. Tisha B'Av - Reasons for Fasting I (I:30)
  9. Tisha B'Av - Reasons for Fasting II (I:31)
  10. Tisha B'Av - Manifestations of Mourning (Iv:9)
  11. Tu B'Av - Rejoicing In A Month of Misfortune I (I:32)
  12. Tu B'Av - Rejoicing In A Month of Misfortune II (I:33)

OU.Org

  1. Month of Tammuz
  2. A Chronology of Destruction
  3. 17 of Tammuz
  4. Tisha B'Av Index
  5. What is Tisha B'av? What are Her Customs and Laws?
  6. Torah Tidbits on Tisha B'Av Basics!
  7. Tisha B'Av On Shabbat Rav Binyamin Tabory
  8. Why The Land Was Lost Dr. Meir Tamari
  9. Tisha B'Av & Pesach Rabbi Yehudah Shaviv
  10. A Chronology of Destruction
  11. The Three Weeks
  12. Megillat Eicha
  13. Put a Note In The Wall
  14. Visit Yerushalayim - Take a audio/visual trip through parts of the ancient Jewish Capital

Ha-Makor

  1. All of the following files in one document
  2. Taanis Tzibur

Web-Shas

  • Fast Days and Destruction
    1. General Issues of Fast Days
    2. Memorials for the Temple
    3. The Destruction of the Temple
    4. Historical Oppresions of Exile
    5. Fasting for Rain
    6. Fasts of the National Representatives on the Offerings
    7. Prayers of Fast Days
    8. Reading of the Torah on Fast Days
    9. The Scroll of Days Which Are Prohibited for Fasting
    10. Blessing of the Nation via the Hands of the Kohanim on Fast Days
  • Specific Days of Fasting
    1. 17th of Tammuz
    2. Special Periods of Oppression in Tammuz and Av
    3. 9th of Av
    4. Fast of Gedalyah
    5. 10th of Teves
    6. Fast Day of Esther
    7. Other, Non-Observed Fasts
  • Issues of Personal Fasting
    1. Personal Fast Days
    2. Fasting After Frightening Dreams
    3. The 17th of Tammuz
    4. Between the 17th of Tammuz
    5. The 9th of Av

    Ohr Sameach

    Essays
    1. Why Cry? - a Tale of Two Cities - Today, why do we mourn for Jerusalem?
    2. Tisha B'Av: Spirals in Time - Tisha B'Av Throughout History
    3. And Rabbi Akiva Laughed - Based on a lecture by Rabbi Mordechai Becher
    4. Thoughts on Tisha B'Av - Based on a lecture by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
    5. The Burning - Book Burning
    6. The Creative Eye - The Mistake of the Spies
    Laws (Halachos)
    1. Laws of the 9 days preceding Tisha B'Av
    2. Laws of Tisha B'Av

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