10. Tisha Be'av

The eternal significance of the  Beit Hamikdash. Discover the cosmic significance of the Beit Hamikdash  and its ultimate role in the future.   Border squabbles and political unrest crop up all over the globe, but one particular conflict bleeds most heavily off the news pages. Any multiethnic society may fight for religious—or secular—ground, but the swaying of one particular type of petitioner in one specific space is the ticking time bomb of a potential world war. What is i

The transformative nature of a fast day. This lesson talks about the deeper element of the fast days and the days of destruction. Many ancient cultures contain the legend of a phoenix. The story is of a bird that lives hundreds of years only to be self-immolated, then ultimately reborn from its own ashes. The book of Iyov [29:18] speaks of a bird called “chol” as a symbol of Iyov’s dashed hopes for longevity. Rashi explains that the chol lives a thousand years and then revert