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Vaetchanan

Parshah
Labor of Love

Voices
Mourning What Is Missing

Why do the Jewish people continue to mourn and weep year after year? Isn't there such a thing as live and let go? Be happy with the moment and forget the past?
Finding Faith Through Illness and Tragedy

A painful struggle with illness was certainly not on Ester’s agenda. Neither was the almost unimaginable tragedy that followed in its wake. Why was G‑d giving her these tests? Where would she find the faith to withstand them?
The Anonymous Man's Last Act Before He Was Killed

You won’t find much written about him anywhere. That’s who he was. A great man who walked among us, until, in one moment, he sanctified G-d’s name.
Letters of Light
By the Numbers
What Are Kinot?

Kinot are Hebrew poetic compositions recited on the fast of Tisha B’Av, lamenting the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem.
10 Questions: Take the “Three Weeks” Quiz

During this period we mourn the past and nurture hope for the future.
On the Calendar 
Tonight Is the Fast of 9 Av
Why do we mourn on Tisha b'Av? A historical overview and a digest of the day's laws.
Your Questions
What Is Shabbat Nachamu?

A Shabbat of consolation after the mourning period of the "three weeks."
The Freeman Files
Constructive Demolition

According to the pain is the gain
— Ethics of the Fathers 5:21
Print Magazine

What will be in the next moment is not in this one now.

It does not yet exist.

It has yet to be created.

When its time comes, then it will be created by the Creator of all things out of nowhere, emerging from the void.

There is only one thing that exists at this moment: That in which you are meant to be engaged righ...