The 15th of Av: Never Greater Days of Joy! On Five Levels

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

[Music] pertaining to the 15th day of the month of our says the Mishnah and the track date of kindness that Amitabha Shimon Bingham Leal rabbi shimon ben Gamliel says there were never such great days of joy for the jewish people like the 15th day of the month of of and yom kippur for on these days the daughters of jerusalem and the daughters of Israel with God into the field and they would with God into the field and they would make circles and they would dance in these circles and they would say to the boys baa son NACO day lift up your eyes and see and choose it for yourself a bride comes the question to mind what is so great about the 15th day of the month of that we say this is considered to be the greatest holiday of the year so the Gomera goes on to explain what happened on this day that in the time of happened on this day that in the time of the desert when the Jewish people were in the desert we know that every year on the ninth day of the month of of 15,000 men died because that was the day that the spies came back and they told the Jewish people we cannot enter into the land it's a land that consumes its inhabitants and therefore the Jews began to cry and God said if you're crying I'll give you a reason to cry number one you're not going to go into the Land of

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1. 0:02[Music] pertaining to the 15th day of the month of our says the Mishnah and the…
2. 2:32this day so that is one reason why the fifteenth day ever was a great holiday…
3. 5:07future God will make a circle for the tsadikim and every Jew is it's a degree…
4. 8:17they all arose they were concerned perhaps that they made a mistake on the calendar so…
5. 10:50again the last fifteen thousand went and they dug their graves and again they asked God…
6. 14:03powers of impurity however one mushiya who come the verb and the hey will become the…
7. 16:37now one will ask this is true every month of the year every 15th of every…
8. 19:12things in vain you can't destroy things in vain so if they no longer need the…
9. 22:23would bring sacrifices so this wood was used as Sadako it was given as charity so…
10. 25:00charity because it allowed us to use now the wood up until the final the following…

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