Gemara:

Taanit 

Machshava:

Midrash 

Holidays:

Taaniot (fasts) 

Collections: R' Etshalom Megilat Eikhah

Description

The Mishnah in Ta'anit presents a literary parallel between the events that befell our ancestors on 17 of Tamuz and those that happened on 9 bAv. We explore the lists and identify three types of events on each list - and the common features which all of the items on each list share. Using this analysis, an approach to understanding the underlying failure that led to each of these tragedies is proposed, one which does much to shed light on how Haza"l want us to view these fasts and our expected response to them. This shiur was given to the staff of Machane Stone on 17 b'Tamuz.