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The Aveilus of Tisha B'av | Agudah Shiur By Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a (5786)

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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Thank you my dear friend Ry Marcus. [clears throat] >> I wasn't aware that this is an appeal. It wasn't planned with me but I can't say I won't appreciate if people uh will be forthcoming. >> So this is my very last speaking engagement in Queens and it really was a remarkable weekend and very special to me. So first and foremost I want to thank my gracious host in Queens that is uh Shimmy Idels and his gracious wife. We had a beautiful shabas and I told Shimmy this morning usually when I come to a community for shabas every meal has 20 participants and it takes very long and that's my personally the hardest part of my being away. This was a very quiet chabas, just a family chabas. And uh it's beautiful. And what was special about my queen's experience is really the variety, the diversity. We start off Thursday night in the young Israel of Hillrest. The seedish dominion of Rabbi Freriedman seeing an old European rabbi with white pants and white socks. That's where I come from, you know. And uh the climax with a beautiful Bkarian community with my dear and recent friend Ra Mayov and Yad Shifty and being able to address all of you and seeing the aas of this community was to me very appealing and very special. So when I walk into a place, I usually ask the host, what am I supposed to do here? What should I speak about? Is it? And my gracious host, Rabbi Krauss, asked me to say. So let's talk about the spirit of and that's at the very end of and all the relevant apply to tishabove as well. But I think the spirit of is not the same as the spirit of the asks first night after his wedding is

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  1. 0:01Thank you my dear friend Ry Marcus. [clears throat] >> I wasn't aware that this is
  2. 3:20is not a mitzvah and doesn't have a mitzvah to be sad He doesn't have a
  3. 6:49asked obviously he was a god had a child that passed away and he did not
  4. 10:10a parent. But what when my wife passed away and she was 60, it was far
  5. 13:32according to my understanding this has so makes so much sense and has so much appeal
  6. 16:58describes me is a brisk of art. The briskov says I love the briskov even though
  7. 20:22that definitely applies to tishab So tish night we sit on the floor and we say
  8. 23:50But then and only then could we really expect that we should be [clears throat] >>
  9. 27:08tells the story of the Schmo's father wanted to be from he fasted two days and
  10. 30:18I always have many CMSs, you know, in in in store and usually sometimes I visit

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