Tisha B'Av: The Saddest Moment In Jewish History - The Liberation of the Kosel

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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.

It's not quite like Tisha B'Av day, but nevertheless, um Chasam Sofer explains that we're that the reason for the restriction on learning during this time is because something that a person learns stays in their mind in the evening and one may come to think about it in the evening. So, uh we're in the middle of the safer Torah midbar but for at this moment, at this time, just want to share with you a thought about the churban that occurred to me this uh morning. We know that one of the great lovers of We know that one of the great lovers of Eretz Yisrael and one of the great heroes of our people of the last century was the Klausenberger Rebbe. For the first time in my life, I had the privilege to go to his kever this uh this past winter. And uh my grandfather, Rabbi Zusha Unsdorfer, met the Rebbe in the DP camps and was very close with the Rebbe. And the Klausenberger Rebbe very much changed his uh shita and his hashkafa toward Eretz Yisrael. And we spoke about this last year. spoke about this last year. And the Klausenberger Rebbe very much felt that people should make every effort to go and live in Eretz Yisrael. And he was once asked well, by one of his talmidim, whether they should make aliyah and move. And the Rebbe responded, "Bo'u l'Eretz Yisrael. Just come. And once you come and you get there, you'll see, you'll inherit the land. Just like Klal Yisrael were mekabel the Torah without question, they na'aseh v'nishma. Eretz Yisrael needs the same type of thing. He would even point out

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6. 4:33retaining wall of the Har Habayit. Says the the Klausenberger Rebbe, "In a way, it is…
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