Rabbi Avi Geller - Preparing for Tisha B'Av

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

thank you okay we're holding in the period before Tish above the three weeks and the nine days then we try to prepare ourselves for tissue buff and it's very difficult for us to feel the morning of Tish above right and I heard a story which brings out you know why it's so difficult for us having it right you know the story used to be very common Jewish practice something called you know is right she used to get up in the middle of the night take off their shoes sit on the floor and cry their shoes sit on the floor and cry bitter tears for the basement right who used to dress like a peasant and travel around the countryside Incognito see how people live it comes to an inn and he spends a night in the end they didn't give it to know he's a great Casino Master he's always a regular guy all right the middle of the night he gets out of his bed takes up his shoes sits on the floors crying bitter tears they keep us in the Next Room with his met wife he's crying or something something must have happened he comes what's the matter why are you crying I'm crying over the destruction of our Temple in Jerusalem I'm asking

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1. 0:09thank you okay we're holding in the period before Tish above the three weeks and the…
2. 3:46it is fitting for all who fear God to cry and lament about the temple being…
3. 7:19Pretoria for a week then he goes home from his wife's his sister's wedding then comes…
4. 10:52so what was it you know we have to think of the sins that caused the…
5. 14:26sacrifice he made a cut in the lip now if he would have broken off the…
6. 18:03temple right they act why was the land loss and they asked the wise men they…
7. 21:49that was when the temple was burned so it's really 22 days in any case what's…
8. 25:24cry I suppose be careful on Israel not to cry for the wrong reasons right we…
9. 29:00Fighters are all included we're crying someone asked why do we make special kindness for the…
10. 32:35weddings right no haircuts no shaving then we have the 9 days it's right about just…

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