3 Weeks - What is Worth Crying Over - Rabbi Shlomo Katz

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The opening of this shiur, in R' Shlomo Katz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

us. We have a um an opportunity this morning to learn from someone that we haven't learned from in a while. And that is a Rabbi Rabbi Erez Moshe Doron. We've learned We've learned many of his pieces before. And he's has this He has some kind of a taste He has a different different taste. It's something very special and unique. And I found a short paragraph a short piece about the three weeks that touched me very very deeply. When we speak about the three weeks of Shavuot and we talk about the concept of crying, quite often we enter a world of guilt because we don't sense we don't feel that we should be crying. We don't feel that lack. It's not something that we want to turn on a button automatic button. If we're going to cry, we want to feel like we're crying. And that happens quite often. This cycle of oh, another another this summer where I'm supposed to feel something that I don't really feel. But when you learn the Midrash, especially the Midrash Eicha, we we begin You you begin to enter a world where you may understand just a little bit better why Hazal told us that this is the time of year where you cry. So, when we talk about beauty and we talk about things that in our eyes are motzei chen, things that find favor in our eyes, that's probably the nekudah of all

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2. 3:13a little bit more a little bit more in a in an in a way that…
3. 7:03The question itself actually clarifies for us in depth how deep the churban is in our…
4. 10:45Sometimes it takes hours and hours going through all the you said this versus you said…
5. 14:38I'm crying over your beauty. Over this beauty that I see right now, which eventually in…
6. 18:25his hair, he got to the perfect Head and Shoulders that really made his beard flow…
7. 22:17It's It's gorgeous beauty that can't be described in in words that we usually use for…
8. 26:04You have more of a possibility to cry over that which you know doesn't exist in…
9. 30:15We went to go visit him a few years ago. It's it's a beauty that you…
10. 34:00Such a tremendous thing. Maybe each of us, one night during the three weeks, can get…

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