Ep. 599: What Is the Correct Way to Understand and Experience the Sadness of This Time of Year
About this episode
Rabbi Jacobson discusses the significance of sadness during this time of year and its implications in Jewish thought.
Rabbi Jacobson will discuss the following topics:What should our focus be during these days? 01:48 • What is the correct way to understand and experience the sadness of this time of year? 01:48 • How does the spiral of time work according to Jewish thought? 05:19 • How do we explain the Gemara “just as when Av begins one decreases in rejoicing, so too when Adar begins, one increases in rejoicing”? 04:40Rosh Chodesh Av/Nine Days • What lessons do we learn from this time period? 12:23 • What is unique about Rosh Chodesh Av? 15:30 • Why are these days sadder than other days of the year? 20:54 • What's the highest level of divine revelation that we can access today? 22:33 • How do the laws of the nine days, like not bathing or washing clothes, help build the Third Beis HaMikdash? 27:37Devarim/Chazon • How do we reconcile the literal meaning of Chazon (Isaiah’s vision of the Temple’s destruction) and R’Levi Yitzchok Berditchev’s interpretation that every Jew is shown the Temple from afar? 33:06 • What lessons do we learn from living with the times, with this week’s Torah parsha? 35:30 • Why is an entire book of Torah dedicated to reviewing past events that have already happened and…
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