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Shabbat Sermon: Is There Hope? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
Shabbat Sermon: Is There Hope? with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jul 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Why was this Tisha B’av different from all other Tisha B’avs?
On all other Tisha B’avs, we read about how once there was a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, and that homeland was destroyed not by external enemies, but by internal Jewish hatred, what the Talmud calls sinat chinam, hatred of Jew for Jew.
In previous years, we got to read about it. We had a luxury. It was history.
What’s different this year is that we are not reading about it. We are living it. It is not history. It is our reality.
On all other Tisha B’avs, we read about how once there was a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel, and that homeland was destroyed not by external enemies, but by internal Jewish hatred, what the Talmud calls sinat chinam, hatred of Jew for Jew.
In previous years, we got to read about it. We had a luxury. It was history.
What’s different this year is that we are not reading about it. We are living it. It is not history. It is our reality.
Released:
Jul 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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