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 | | |  | Menachem Av 7, 5772 · July 26, 2012 |  | By Tzvi Freeman |  |
|  | | | Stick Figure Vignette: Parshat Devarim
Two guys put away boxes in a giant warehouse. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? |  |  | | | A Taste of Text—Devarim
No one is immune to feeling hurt when being admonished. Moses teaches us how to rebuke carefully and sensitively. By Chana Weisberg |  | | | | Take a Tour of the New Chabad.org
Take a 3-minute tour that highlights some of the major changes and improvements at Chabad.org, the #1 Jewish website. | | | | | The lamentations of Jeremiah the prophet
Says the prophet Jeremiah in Lamentations, "For these things I weep." Where were the rest of the Jewish people when Jeremiah was mourning the destruction of the Holy Temple? By Shimon Hecht | | | | | Studying Rashi: Parshat Devarim
"The Lord, your G-d has multiplied you, and you are today as numerous as the stars in the sky." (Deuteronomy 1:10) Were there really as many Jews on that day as stars in the sky? Is this an exaggeration or perhaps a metaphor? Rashi explains why the Jews are compared to the celestial bodies. By Mendel Kaplan | | | | | Meditation for a Public Fast
There is an ancient custom that on a public fast day, the rabbi delivers a special sermon known as "divrei kivushin" (lit. "words that conquer the heart.") By Zalman Dubinsky | | | | | The Numbers and Letters of Destruction and Renewal
The mystical secrets hinted to by the numbers in the dates associated with the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem -- the 17th day of Tammuz, the 9th day of Av and the three weeks or twenty-one days between them. Aaron L. Raskin | | | | | Textual Study of Talmud (Gittin 55b-57a)
The Talmud's narrative of the unfortunate episodes that led to the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and our subsequent exile. By Yehoshua B. Gordon | | | | | A Tisha B'Av Class
Why it is illogical to say that the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, and the subsequent exile, came about as a punishment for the Jewish people. By Ben-Tzion Krasnianski | | | | | |
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