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The Laws of the Three Weeks
Rabbi Yehuda Balsam: Music during the 3 weeks
Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein: Three Weeks in Halacha and Machshava
Rabbi Josh Flug: The Laws Of Bein HaMetzarim (Text)
Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg: Zman Pur'anus, Mema'atin B'Simcha, Taking Haircuts
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Halachos of the Three Weeks (Text)
Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky:Shaving, Music, and Parties
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Lessons of the Three Weeks
Rabbi Asher Brander: Hope in Bein Hametzarim
Rabbi Kenneth Brander: The Tragedy of the Second Temple
Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein: Aveilus of Bein Hametzarim-Aveilus Shebilev
Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller: Destruction of Unity
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs: Perspectives on Three Weeks
Mrs. Shira Smiles: Surmounting Sinat Chinam
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Apreciating the Temple
Rabbi Hanan Balk: Two Concepts of Mikdash: The Enduring Value of the Korbanot
Rabbi Azarya Berzon: The Mitzvah of Shmirat HaMikdash
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Making a Zecher l'Churban in our Homes
Rabbi Dovid Miller: Kedushat Hamikdash and Kedushat Eretz Yisrael
Rabbi Baruch Simon: Yearning for the Bais Hamikdash
Rabbi Yaacov Thaler: Tearing Kriah on the Churban Beis Hamikdash
Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Weinberg: Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh - Rebuilding the Mikdash Within Our Hearts
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Yerushalayim
Rabbi Elchanan Adler: Jerusalem - United We Stand
Rabbi Jonathan Feldman: Remembering Jerusalem, Yearning for its Rebuilding
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag: Judaism without Jerusalem
Rabbi Michael Rosensweig: Yerushalayim: The Center of the Jewish People
Rabbi Reuven Spolter: The Jerusalem in our Imagination (Text)
Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner: Are we "Haters of Jerusalem"?
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The Laws of the Nine Days
Rabbi Chaim Jachter: Restaurants Serving Meat During the Nine Days (Text)
Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg: The Nine Days
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Laundry During the Nine Days
Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky: Simcha, construction, meat, wine and laundry
Rabbi Yaacov Thaler: Building, Planting, and Marrying
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Shabbat Chazon and Erev Tisha B'av
Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg: The Seuda HaMafsekes
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Erev Tisha b'Av
Rabbi Gidon Rothstein: Haftorah for Shabbat Hazon
Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman: The Nechama of Three and Seven (Text)
Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky: Erev Tisha B'Av and Tisha B'Av
Rabbi Yaacov Thaler: Seudah HaMafsekes
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The Lessons of Tisha B'av
Rabbi Zevulun Charlop: Why We Celebrate Tisha B'av Today
Rabbi Shalom Hammer: What are we crying for?
Rabbi Ari Kahn: Playing Hide and Seek with God
Rabbi Dovid Miller: Tisha B'av as a Day of Introspection
Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger: The Significance of Having a Time for Crying
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J Schacter: A Different Conception of Tisha B�Av: The Dialectic of Exile and Redemption
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Fasting
Rabbi Akiva Block: From Yom Kippur Morning to Tisha B'av Mourning: Two Models of Physical Abstinence
Rabbi Josh Flug: One who is too ill to fast on Tisha B'Av (Text)
Rabbi Chaim Jachter: Air Travel on a Fast Day
Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg: Choleh on Tisha B'Av
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The Prohibitions of Tisha b'Av
Rabbi Daniel Hartstein: Sitting on Tisha B'Av
Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg: Wearing Tefillin on Tisha B'Av
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Shoes, Washing, Tashmish, Eating etc
Rabbi Yona Reiss: The Nature of Tisha B'av and the Role of Talmud Torah
Rabbi Ezra Schwartz: Hilchos Aveilus on Tisha BAv
Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky: The Prohibition to Learn Torah on Tisha B'Av
Rabbi Yaacov Thaler: Washing and Wearing Shoes
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Eicha
Rabbi Chaim Brovender: Eikha - Then and Now
Rabbi Avishai David: Eicha: Yirmiyahu's Kinna
Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein: Hakdama to Eicha
Rabbi Josh Flug: The Reading of Eicha on Tisha B'Av (Text)
Sarah Medved and Esty Rollhaus: Catastrophe, Creativity, and Catharsis (Text)
Dr. Shai Secunda: Denial, Rage, Consolation and hope: Eicha Rabba
Mrs. Shani Taragin: Eicha: Agony of Abandonment
Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Weinberg: Joining Hashem in the Silence and the Secret of Chochma and Binah
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Iyov
Rabbi Hanan Balk: Introduction to The Book of Iyov
Rabbi Jonathan Cohen: A Jewish Response to Suffering?
Mrs. Daphna Fishman Secunda: Rambam's perspective on Iyov
Rabbi Avraham Gordimer: Tisha B'Av's Connection with Sefer Iyov (Text)
Dr. Shira Weiss: Responding to Challenges of Faith
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Introduction to Kinot
Rabbi Elchanan Adler: Tools for Apreciating the Kinos
Cantor Bernard Beer: Kinnos Melody
Rabbi Yosef Blau: Introduction to Kinnot
Rabbi Yonason Sacks: Tisha B'Av Kinnos
Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner: Permission to Mourn and to Celebrate
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Consolation and Shabbat Nachamu
Rabbi Chaim Brovender: Nachamu, Nachamu Ami
Rabbi Yosef Kalinsky: A Double Consolation (Text)
Rabbi Gidon Rothstein: Haftarat Shabbat Nachamu (Text)
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J Schacter: The Nechama of Tisha B'av
Rabbi Baruch Simon: Ish Lo Ne'edar: Nechmas Zion U'Binyan Yerushalayim
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Galus and Consolation in our Time

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The Tragedy of the Second Temple

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Why We Celebrate Tisha B'av Today

Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn
Protesting our Lowliness

Rabbi Meir Goldwicht
Tisha B'av: From Mourning to Joy (Hebrew)

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff
Building Our Homes and Building the Temple

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Looking to the Future

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What Mourning Means: Reflections of The Rav on Tisha B'Av

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Aveilus Yeshana and Aveilus d'Rabim

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J Schacter
The Nechama of Tisha B'av

Rabbi Baruch Simon
Yearning for the Bais Hamikdash

Rabbi Michael Taubes
Exile in Eretz Yisrael, Jew versus Jew

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski
Mourning and Consolation

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Cultivating Ahavas Yisrael