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Shiva Asar B'Tamuz - Mourning the Assimilation of the Jewish People

4.4K views · Jul 13, 2025

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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  1. 0:00In the Jewish calendar, we have fast days that commemorate tragic events that have happened throughout…
  2. 0:32day that the Jewish people worship the Ael. The Ael, the golden calf was so to…
  3. 1:34Holocaust. That is a frightening statistic. Why don't we mourn the tragedy of assimilation? Or do…
  4. 2:37in a des erected in the there's a a there are a lot of opinions as…
  5. 3:09necessarily in the times of the second basa mikdash so the Mishna seems to collect five…
  6. 4:12Torah study breaks, the next step is our daily observance of is nullified. Maybe at first…
  7. 5:13downward spiral of what happens to the Jewish people. First they stopped their commitment to Torah…
  8. 5:44throughout our history. And as great of a tragedy that is, it has been most pronounced…
  9. 6:45braha to the Jewish people. And indeed it has certainly this country has been the greatest…
  10. 7:51and we reverse this course because the same way it begins the downward spiral begins with…

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