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Tisha B'Av & The Fall of Beitar {Bar Kochva}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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he's uh Leila Nishhmas his niece Miriam Bas Gerstein Pinas and Shma for Gish Pinas Ben toa Rifka. So the good news is that we finished the charity campaign so you don't have to hear about it anymore. We want to thank everyone who participated. It was Barash a phenomenal success. So many people asked they missed it. Could they still donate? Well, we deliberated for a very long time and we concluded yes, you could still contribute to the campaign. Next, what else? Sunday is tishabove. Everyone is cordally invited to our tishabove program. If I don't want to hear if you're in the Milky Way or at least in the northern hemisphere, make sure you come to our show 5:30 peninsula 9:00 is shakus and then we have a full tisha program. We have amazing material this year and uh as we shouldn't have to mourn for the bas mikdash but uh either way please join us at 5:30 Peninsula Boulevard. Tonight is our grand finale on this amazing topic we've been speaking about for about a month now. The topic of the revolt of Tonight we're going to talk about the tragic fall of Betar. The tragic fall of Betar. The Rambam writes in the in the Rambam says in paral says the Rambam five things happened on tishab it was decreed on our forefathers that they shouldn't enter and they were stuck in the midbar for 40 years the first basikdash was destroyed the second bas was destroyed by the way the first and second ba mikdash were both destroyed on mat shabas the way the calendar is this Here that was the calendar and the times both of the Bishan and the Bay. Then the Rambam says the fourth tragedy is a great city was captured. Its name was

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