Fast Days: Av - The Light of Darkness
About this episode
Rabbi Shulman explores the paradox of the Nine Days as a time of mourning that also contains hidden light and potential for transformation.
Rabbi Shulman contrasts the “lived” experience of the Nine Days—darkness, mourning, and absence—with a deeper Torah view in which this time is paradoxically called a **מועד**. Drawing from Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen (Pri Tzadik), Rabbi Shulman explains how Rosh Chodesh (especially Rosh Chodesh Av) contains hidden קדושה and “light,” even amid טומאה and חורבן, and how the very experience of rock-bottom can become the fuel for transformative תשובה מאהבה that retroactively reveals good בתוך החושך. Outline: https://danielggordon.github.io/ateresami/av-the-light-of-darkness-20260716-130634-outline-20260716-130733.pdf
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