Shabbat Chazon

The first nine days of the month of Av, and also the morning of the tenth, The Temple was set ablaze on the afternoon of the ninth of Av, and burned through the tenth. are days of acute mourning for the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples. ...

As part of our mourning for the destruction of the Temple and the exile of Israel, we abstain from many pleasurable activities on the night and day of Av 9, first and foremost: eating and drinking.

The Shabbat before the Ninth of Av is called Shabbat Chazon ("Shabbat of Vision") after the opening words of the day's reading from the prophets ("haftara"), which is the third of the series of readings known as "The Three of Rebuke." On this Shabbat, ...

The vision which we see on Shabbat Chazon is to inspire a change so fundamental that we will turn that vision of the Third Temple into actual physical reality...

An in depth presentation of Chassidic teachings on the weekly Parshah.

In the third haftorah of the “Trilogy of Tribulations,” we learn how Isaiah’s prophecy contains a hidden lesson about our power to visualize and manifest our greatest hopes and dreams.

On the Shabbat before the Ninth of Av we are granted a vision of the Third Temple. But what is the point of this vision, if we do not experience it consciously? And what exactly is it that we see?

Imagine if everyone saw you as you really are, as you see yourself. And you looked at everyone else and saw them as they see themselves. Our world would be a very different place, wouldn't it?