Tag: Tisha Be’Av

A civility elegy

What better moment than the eve of Tisha Be’Av – at ten months distance from this country’s contemporary national catastrophe of Tisha Be’Av magnitude – to remind oneself of the Biblical warnings against the politics of defamation? Such politics have been tried before in this country with disastrous and tragic results. Time to maximize Israeli heart and minimize hatred…
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Would we be worthy

Rabbi Haim Sabato's elegy for Tisha Be'Av, mourning Israel's loss of national unity and moral priorities, translated here into English for the first time. He terms our current situation keter evion, a “pauper’s crown,” meaning sunk to rock bottom. Rav Sabato blames not only our politicians, but cultural leaders and educators too.
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