Every year Tisha B’av seems the same to me. It’s a mixed feeling of manufactured sadness and confusion about what the sadness is really about. Last Shabbos, the ruv of my shul delivered the same drosho that dozens of rabbis…
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Why we still fast on Tisha B’Av
Don’t let George Zimmerman ruin your Tisha B’Av
It seems that everyone talking about George Zimmerman, no one spoke about it over shabbos, yet as soon as shabbos was over it was suddenly on everyone’s mind. Today as I drove without any sound coming out of my stereo…
Do you get sad on Tisha B’av?
I’m jealous of the rabbi, he’s davening maariv and he’s crying, I’m reading some Artscroll book on the Sfas Emes. Next is Eicha, sure the sad tune which I love and sometimes hum when I’m cooking can provoke some to…
But I don’t relate to Tisha B’av
I’ve heard the complaints dozens of times and have made them myself, but for some reason Tisha B’av is the one day in the Jewish tradition that gets the most complaints in the department of “I can’t relate to this…
A Modern Eicha for our times
Guest post by Andonymous Hope you like the attached content! I call it “modern day Eichah,” since we obviously have trouble relating to the one we read every year. Feel free to post the audio and the text files on…
Mourning the Living On Tisha B’Av
A Guest Post By E. Fink (This was posted on my blog last year on Tisha B’Av) A few years ago I was a campus Rabbi for the Jewish Awareness Movement at USC. One of my primary responsibilities was to…
When all is said and done, Tisha B’Av just isn’t funny
There isn’t anything inherently funny about Tisha B’Av. Yom Kippur is funnier — we clop our chests, all the Rabbis look like idiots in their white canvas shoes and suits and it’s so boring that in yeshiva we ended up…
Tisha B’Av pickup lines
I would love to see if any of you have ideas for this one, Jewish pickup lines are usually pretty easy to come up with. On succos you have lulav, on Rosh Hashanah you have the shofar and on Pesach…
Jewish groups proclaim nine days of environmental awareness by not eating meat
Jewish groups around the world are patting themselves on the back after proclaiming that they will begin to mourn the onslaught of Global Warming during the traditional during the nine days period of mourning about to begin this evening. The…
The necessary business model re-org of Tisha B’Av: A personal lament
By David Sheril I guess I’ll to be the one with the cojones to publicly announce it: we are losing Tisha B’Av. I don’t mean the date on the calendar, nor am I referring to the factual history of this…
9 Tisha B’av blog posts from around the web
Writing comedy on Tisha B’av is like eating prok for kiddush on Yom Kippor, well maybe not that bad – but it just doesn’t feel write. Well maybe I should say posting, because with all this free time I have…
Rarely am I so captivated by a speech
I don’t typically like speeches, hate may be a strong word, but I do space out or read something else. Tonight at the end of Maariv I picked up the Rav Shlomo Freifeld biography and couldn’t put it down, I…
Finding the right shul on Tisha B’av
Finding the right shul to go for Tisha B’av can make your fast an easy and memorable one, while winding up at the wrong shul may arguably be the best way to remember how much we suffered at the hands…