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10 Kavanos To Have While Fasting on Tisha B’Av

2.8K views · Jul 22, 2026

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein discusses ten intentions to hold during the fast of Tisha B’Av.

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  1. 0:00Tisha B'Av is the most tragic day on our calendar. And yet, fasting on Tisha B'Av…
  2. 0:31enhance your mitzvah of fasting on Tisha B'Av. Firstly, to have in mind you're being mikayem…
  3. 1:01with the greatest purity. The Chida teaches in Mar Ba'etzba, whenever we're embarking on the performance…
  4. 1:32Number five, and it may come as a surprise, to do it b'simchah. We don't have…
  5. 2:04The Mesillas Yesharim teaches from Tanna D'vei Eliyahu that a great level of kavana, a great…
  6. 2:36You're doing it on behalf of the Jewish people to protect them, to bring them merit.…
  7. 3:06k'dei shetitzmach yeshua b'kariv, in order to expedite the coming of the redemption. Whenever we perform…
  8. 3:37Yosef haYisraeli, that the navi commands us in Yirmiyahu perek nun alef pasuk nun, Zichru meirachok…
  9. 4:07being mikayem the mitzvah midivrei nevi'im divrei kabbalah of fasting on Tisha B'Av Mahara b'tshuva number…
  10. 4:38there's a mitzvah midivrei nevi'im to remember Yerushalayim if we have even some of these kavanos…

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