Chodesh Av: Rebbi Meir and the Churban

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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.

If you could kindly be mashtatif in helping us build our Torah center, our Beis HaMedrash, which is Ma'at b'chamos v'rav b'eichos. In our Makom Torah, Baruch Hashem, it's the tefillah is on a very high level. There's no talking while they're davening. There are no phones in the Beis HaMedrash. It's reserved only for Torah tefillah and it serves as a Kiddush Hashem and a model to many, many other battei knesiyos in New York and around the world have also dedicated We have an amazing topic today, one of my favorite topics. We haven't discussed this in a while. And we're going to talk about the month of Chodesh Av, Haba Aleinu Letova. Even though Chazal tell us that Shemos Hachadashim Al Umei Bavel, the names of the Jewish months of the year are not Jewish in origin, they're not Lashon Hakodesh in origin, they're of Babylonian or Persian etymology, nevertheless, Devarim Gedolim Einam nevertheless, Devarim Gedolim Einam Bamikra, great things are certainly not coincidental. Great things are not happenstance. And we even though the name of Chodesh Tammuz, Tammuz technically is the name of a Persian god, but still, we need to be Misboinen in the reason in the explanation for the name of the month. This month's name is Chodesh Av. month's name is Chodesh Av. Why do we refer to this month as Chodesh Av? I want to begin with an amazing observation in the Gemara in Perek Chevel Eizakim about the Churban Beis Hamikdash. The Gemara tells us about the various generals that were sent to destroy the Beis Hamikdash beginning with Nero Caesar, then Aspasianus Caesar, followed by Titus. >> [snorts] >> The Gemara says, "Shadar Elav LeNeron Caesar, Ki Kaasu, when he came, he threw an arrow to the east, it went toward

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5. 22:29So we would expect my sir. >> [snorts] [sighs] >> If you don't know. Are we…
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7. 33:23Rabbi Akiva, we're the children of Hashem. Says Turnus Rufus, but you're clearly Rabbi Akiva holds…
8. 38:39Tiveria to establish the rule that in Tiveria we possible skinned Ben Kacho Ben Kacho Nikro…
9. 44:18Hashem is embracing us, then we know one thing, we are always bonim la Makom and…
10. 49:30vertically. R. Meir is buried standing. Why is R. Meir Meir buried standing? It's so uncomfortable…

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