Mrs. Rivki Segal Intros - Rabbi Zev Leff on The Essence of Tisha B-Av

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

It's good to see you, and on behalf of Ohel Bais Yisrael Centre, it's a pleasure to welcome everyone here, and thank you for coming. I also want to uh to say that tonight it's the conclusion of our summer series of lectures, and I'm looking around and I know that there's some of us here who did all of them, and it's it was nice to see you once and twice a week, and I'll miss you for the rest of the summer. We look forward to having you back at more more series, not summer series, but more series of lectures each year and during series of lectures each year and during the year. I especially want I'm proud and honored to introduce Rabbi Zeph Leff. Rabbi Leff really made a big change in his schedule, and I want to thank the people who changed his schedule as well, in order that we would have Rabbi Leff with us here just a few days before Tisha B'Av to help us understand what it's about, and understand why we so desperately wanted to change from a day of aveilus to a day and Mrs. Steven Grossman, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lerner, and Mr. and Mrs. Burt Weinberg, and Mrs. Tillie Mann, and Mrs. Carol Levy in honor of Mr. Sarah Fishman. Thank you. Okay. Let me start with uh a few questions. We are nearing the end of this period of mourning which started on Shiva the 17th

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1. 0:00It's good to see you, and on behalf of Ohel Bais Yisrael Centre, it's a pleasure…
2. 6:12in a shamayim, a special heavenly decree that a deceased should be forgotten from the heart…
3. 12:21think is natural. We have become so used to a world after the sin of Adam…
4. 18:43Okay? There's no other options aside what I'm going to tell you exist in the story.…
5. 24:47we wouldn't have to have gone to the next stage. And finally, if we don't get…
6. 31:00Why do we sing the viduy? Let me tell you what I think. And this marshal…
7. 37:11there was a Beis Hamikdash, the Mishnah. In the time of the Beis Hamikdash, Shabbos was…
8. 43:31person meant nothing and made no difference. He's here or he's not here, it's the same…
9. 49:40and refused to be comforted. How could he mourn for 22 years? There's a special decree…
10. 55:46The crying that is worthless is when people cry because they feel abandoned, hopeless. Crying when…

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