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A lecture on Tisha B'Av and its relevance to current events given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
anybody wants to help over and above that, we certainly welcome. We're here for the community. We're here as a place for people to come and learn. We invite anybody who's looking for a place to come learn to visit with us. And uh we want to welcome and uh give our deep blessings to uh Reb Mendel and his family, and thank him very much for coming. Hope everybody enjoys the shiur. God bless. It's a pleasure to be back to speak about First of all, I want to thank the Reb Shalom and uh for allowing me to speak, and to speak really about very profound, very important ideas. I want to speak tonight about two really what seemingly is independent topics, but really they're not. I want to speak about tonight about obviously we are in the 9 days, which means um Tisha B'Av is Sunday, really it's Shabbos, but it's in the Torah. And I want to speak about some of the very important concepts of Tisha B'Av. That's the first idea. And the second thing I want to connect it to what is happening now and why. And in many ways they are very much connected even though it doesn't seem so. Now I don't remember what I said last year. So, if I wind up repeating myself I say you forget from year to year, you know. But, I think there are new people here, I'm not sure. So, you'll just have to forgive me some of you although uh for others, of course, it'll be completely There's a good morning brothers. It's about second brothers. That's the human. Very interesting tomorrow. And it looks like it's simple to
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