OPINION & COMMENT

Mourning on Tisha B'Av is the Only Solution

This is another year we have to mourn the destruction. With all the truly wonderful things that we have experienced in recent generations, with the vast increase in wealth and the tremendous growth of Torah, still the overall situation of Jews throughout the world is bleak enough today that there certainly is no one who questions the need to mourn -- as some did in the early exuberance after the founding of the State of Israel more than 50 years ago.

Our Torah, Our Prayers And Our Tears: Our Prayers
by HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg

"By the rivers of Bovel; there we sat, we also cried, when we remembered Tzion." The Yalkut Shimoni (Tehillim 137) explains that Klal Yisroel was crying over the departure of their prophet Yirmiyohu. Yirmiyohu escorted his newly captive nation to the farthest point and then, when our exile from Eretz Yisroel was inevitably about to begin, he left us to return to Yerushalayim.

Introduction to A Middos Workshop -- Tending to Our Beautiful Garden
Based on the lectures of HaRav Dovid Segal

Why do we seem to stumble over the same areas time after time? We insult someone, daven without kavonoh, let some loshon hora slip out, and then we sincerely regret it.

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