The October 7th Massacre: When Simchas Torah Turned Into Tisha B'Av

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

this year on October 7th Sim one of the most joyous days on the Jewish calendar the day that we celebrate the completion of the reading of the Tyra the day that we Rejoice we dance with the Tyra CLA saw the Jewish people experienced great tragedy great Devastation where more than a thousands of our brothers and sisters were killed Jews were kidnapped abducted violated assaulted on the on a joyous day like simra it was transformed to Tish for our people a day of Corbin a day of Devastation a day of disaster a day of Destruction s turned into TSH and this expression turned into Tish really struck a cord in me because there actually is a very surprising connection between and surprisingly the counterpart of sim indeed is Tish you know if you'll notice many are familiar with the tune of AA The Haunting Eerie tune of AA it's a tune even without the words that carries with it 2,000 years of destruction of Jewish disaster and tragedy The Haunting tune [Laughter] of many are familiar with the tun but did you realize that on we use almost an identical tune when we take out the saer we say why are we using a tune that's nearly identical to theune isn't it the one of the happiest days of the year one of the most joyous days of the year we use such a similar tune to and it's amazing the the called explaining you see is one of the 24 books of which will never become so then how are we going to read when comes we're going to say alas she

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1. 0:01this year on October 7th Sim one of the most joyous days on the Jewish calendar…
2. 0:31on the on a joyous day like simra it was transformed to Tish for our people…
3. 1:37[Laughter] of many are familiar with the tun but did you realize that on we use…
4. 2:42sits in solitude we're going to say and what tuna are we going to use explains…
5. 3:44until to the nine days that we have in from the beginning of until in fact…
6. 4:47any added y there's not going to be any y between p and Sh or between…
7. 5:48have and Dav what about do we have any visitors on Shas in fact there's an…
8. 6:52the is the same numerical value of for so you have these two counterparts the happiest…
9. 7:56should be the day that y has been waiting for the day of the day of…
10. 8:58read when Mia comes we're going to read it the way we read it on this…

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