This year as well, on the ninth of Av, Jews around the world will fast over the absence of the Holy Temple for 1,949 years.
It seems that as every year that passes, our tears are as of new, and our cries intensify.
“For Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it” (from the Book of Lamentations)
In prayer for complete redemption.
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The study of Torah, through which the spiritual world is sustained, is carried out by Torah scholars and by all Jews who
Beyond the need to judge according to the laws of the Torah, it is also necessary that the judges themselves be Jewish
It is forbidden to harm Arabs or their property in order to deter them from harming Jews, or to expel them *
The prophets and the sages established the fast on the Ninth of Av because everything follows the beginning. * Since, in practice,
Just as the fast of Tisha B’Av is more severe than the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz, so, in several respects,
