World Cup Before 9 B'av

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

Shalom, my friend. On Sunday, there'll be a game, the World Cup final game, where the whole world would be glued to the screens to watch and see who's going to be the world champion. Is a Jew allowed to watch those games? This uh question is a twofold question. One, are you allowed to watch it altogether during the year? And secondly, can you watch it on Tisha B'Av right before Tisha B'Av? During the year, we have Gemara Gemara in Avodah Zarah Yud Chet that says that one is not allowed to go to stadium to watch the clowns, to watch circuses, to watch anything like that. One should avoid that. It's bitul Torah, says the Gemara. It brings also to bitul Torah, which means that only that it's in essence bitul Torah, but it causes you also in the future to stop wanting to learn also because you get involved with nonsense like that. This one reason that one should avoid

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1. 0:00Shalom, my friend. On Sunday, there'll be a game, the World Cup final game, where the…
2. 0:31year, we have Gemara Gemara in Avodah Zarah Yud Chet that says that one is not…
3. 1:03watching those games. But even more so, this is definitely not the Jewish way, the Torah…
4. 1:35news. You want to know what the news uh what happens in the world, you can…
5. 2:07can fulfill a person with joy. When a person when a team scores and it's a…
6. 2:37that's not correct on few levels as we explained, but also in Tisha B'Av one definitely…

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