The Feeling of the Fast - A 17th of Tammuz Message from Rabbi Mintz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] here we are about to start the three weeks that we call it the nine days being introduced with Shas and ending with many of us don't really feel the full impact even the small amount of impact of what these weeks mean to us we know the days of M no weddings no music no haircuts and so on nine days even more things that we're not allowed to do and feels that the way we live today in Freedom in this country we have freedom of religion we have a lot of yeshivas we have a lot of yish kite all of Jewish uh occasions and stores and food Everything Jewish and some people for why are we mourning I have to thank hem for the the great Freedom that we're living in and uh it seems that things are going very well the problem is that since we never experienced what it feels to be when we live at the time of the Holy Temple when it stand we don't realize what we lost the time of the Holy Temple had stood it meant that God was so close to us we felt his kadha we felt the Holiness we felt his his kindness his a to us his love to us his concern for us let's try to [Music] imagine a high time of H Holiness that we feel in our lives maybe a woman lighting shabas candles what's the feeling it feel special closeness to

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1. 0:01[Music] here we are about to start the three weeks that we call it the nine…
2. 0:31of what these weeks mean to us we know the days of M no weddings no…
3. 1:03uh occasions and stores and food Everything Jewish and some people for why are we mourning…
4. 1:36stood it meant that God was so close to us we felt his kadha we felt…
5. 2:06Hashem very good feeling time of time of the time of a wedding of everybody has…
6. 2:37we live here in Gus at the time of the Holy Temple B that feeling was…
7. 3:08plain living without the real Holiness that we're supposed to have with the building and and…
8. 3:40close we should be to Hashem how close we should the feeling of of of of…
9. 4:11great Torah is and that's something that we have to do Chua on to realize that…
10. 4:41eyes realize its importance realize that without it there's no purpose for life and we hope…

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