The Hard Truth About Tisha B'Av - Rabbi Asher Weiss

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

and all the other bonim of this beautiful wonderful community. It's an honor and a privilege to be with you tonight and The name we should say some words to inspire. The days are days of mourning, days of sadness. Yesterday was we are within the nine days [clears throat] and this coming shabas is shabas kazin. One of the most painful chapters in we are all familiar withdal say no [clears throat] that's what all the people say it's not many many swarm hundreds of swarm quote but the Russian is far more troubling much harsher and it's Because when we say every generation there wasn't to have the B mikdash, it is as if the B mikdash was destroyed in our time. So what many things transpire during the lifetime of an individual and not all of them he is liable for what Kazal actually say is every generation that doesn't have the BA maid of So, mother leaves the house for 10 minutes and she tells the kids she knows she has a mischievous bunch and she tells them, "I'm going to be back in a few minutes and I want to find the house exactly as I leave it." She's back 10 minutes later. The flower pot is on the floor broke into pieces. Flowers and water all over the house. The curtains are torn to shreds. And mother asks, "Who did it?" And the children altogether say, "No one. Happened." And mother says, "It didn't happen. Flop pads don't go jumping off tables and curtains don't turn their tear themselves. Someone did it and I want to know who. So when we say it happened, it didn't just happen. Someone bears responsibility. Who bears responsibility? You and I and all of us. So why do we bear responsibility? So these are days of mourning, tragic days

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2. 4:22in which we remember the the destruction of Bishon and Bi. But the lamb clearly writes…
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