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By Sivan Rahav Meir What’s Really Happening in Metulah? Metulah, Israel’s northernmost city, which abuts the border with Lebanon, was desolate last Thursday morning, due to barrages of deadly rocket fire. Some might find this news extremely discouraging, but it’s important to know what’s happening behind the scenes. Just last week, the city authorized the […]
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By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Knowing the historical background of the churban helps us mourn its destruction. Tisha B’Av is the culmination, of course, of two
From the blog of Marc Kornblatt at The Times of Israel
We have two yearly communal periods of mourning—the Three Weeks and the Omer. Both were caused by dysfunctional interpersonal relationships. The Three Weeks commemorate the churban (destruction) of the Beit HaMikdash and our exile from Eretz Yisrael. Chazal1 attribute the churban to the sin of sinat chinam (baseless hatred).2 Though the Jews of the Second […]