The 3 Weeks: The Transformation of the Four Fasts into Days of Joy

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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.

the Arba L'Chodesh B'Chislev. On the fourth day of the ninth month of Chodesh Kislev. What's the word? Why Why you base aleph Sharetzer? What's the double double? V'Regel Melech V'Anashav. Interesting. And a message had been sent to Base Aleph by Sharetzer and by Regel Melech and by their men. L'Chalos they asked Hashem the following question. And they asked the Kohanim L'eimar L'Kohanim Asher L'Veis Hashem V'LaNevi'im L'eimar. So the following question was posed to three great individuals. If we could say K'viyacha to the Ribono Shel Olam, to the Nevi'im, to the Kohanim. And they wanted to know Ha'Im K'Vachodesh HaChamishi Should we cry in the fifth month? What's the fifth month fifth month? The month of Av. Should we cry in Av this year? He knows should we refrain from pleasure for many years? This was the end of the 70 years of Galus Bavel. They were beginning to build the second Beis Hamikdash. For the last 70 years they had been fasting on Tisha B'Av. And now the question is should they continue fasting on Tisha B'Av? Now that they're building a second Beis Hamikdash, why mourn the Churban Bayis Rishon? This was perk Zion possuk aleph gimmel. Hashem responded to Zechariah for many, many, many, many pesukim. And the pesukim are very mysterious and ambiguous and vague and cryptic. And there's no conclusive answer until you get to perek ches, pasuk yud tes. K'o amar Hashem, so says Hashem Tzevaot. You want to know if you have to fast on Tisha B'Av? Let me tell you something. All those four fasts that you were fasting, no more. Tzom ha revi'i, v'tzom ha chamishi, v'tzom ha shvi'i, v'tzom ha asiri. The fast of fast of the fourth month, Shiva Asar B'Tammuz. The fast of the fifth month, Tisha B'Av. The fast of the

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1. 0:30the Arba L'Chodesh B'Chislev. On the fourth day of the ninth month of Chodesh Kislev. What's…
2. 4:39Let's say, when they asked their question, they said, "Ha efshar b'chodesh ha'chamishi, should we fast…
3. 8:41d'rabbeinan. It's because ratzu l'hit'anot, it's a minhag of Klal Yisrael. Like the Magen Avraham says,…
4. 12:51And the Ramban says like this that called the Tikkun Hanavi'im k'ein d'Oraisa Tikkun. That's the…
5. 17:28to be like that, otherwise you can't be the original like that. You see from that…
6. 21:34And Rebbe decided whose words were correct, whose words should be recorded as Halacha and this…
7. 25:40Not to eulogize and not to fast. So this was not by chance. Tisha B'Av was…
8. 30:13I'll call you tomorrow at 2:00. It's a myth that you cry out to blow the…
9. 34:23What is that all about? I thought the main I thought it's all in Olam Haba.…
10. 38:32that all those 70 years in Bavel, when we were doing teshuvah, the Ribono shel Olam…

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