Tisha B'Av: The Only Consolation

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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 Halacha does not allow a Jew to learn Torah on Tisha B'Av. Tisha B'Av is a day of mourning, of sadness, and the Torah engenders happiness and joy in those who learn it. Pikudei Hashem yesharim mesamchei lev. But I would like to share with you another dimension of why we're forbidden to learn Torah on Tisha B'Av. I would like to share with you a story about our revered grandfather, Harav Mordechai Leib Goldstein, zichrono livracha. And what his response was to liberation. At the end of the war, Germany had to make a very crucial decision. The American and Russian armies were fast approaching, and the Germans had to decide whether allocate resources to the war front to try to win the war or to use the resources to exterminate whatever Jews were left in the camps, and they chose the latter. So, they rounded up whatever Jews were left in the camps, our grandfather included, and they packed them like animals onto cattle cars, where they were shipped to the Tyrol Mountains, where they were to dig their own graves, and they were going to be shot. And the American army was hot on the trail, and the American army bombed the railroad track, thwarting the plan the plan of these resha'im. And with the help of the Almighty, led by American General Henning Linden, Jr.,

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1. 0:08The Halacha does not allow a Jew to learn Torah on Tisha B'Av. Tisha B'Av is…
2. 0:38And what his response was to liberation. At the end of the war, Germany had to…
3. 1:08they packed them like animals onto cattle cars, where they were shipped to the Tyrol Mountains,…
4. 1:39the railroad tracks were bombed, and when the SS officers realized that the American army was…
5. 2:12and he handed my grandfather his pistol and he said, "Rabbi, here's the gun. Now's your…
6. 2:42That is my liberation. I leave revenge to the Ribono shel Olam. The greatest consolation for…
7. 3:12it's a time of aveilus. We can't partake of the Torah. We can't enjoy the Anochi…
8. 3:46May we be zocheh to only have yeshuos venachamos lanu ulchol Yisrael amen.…

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