Tisha B’Av

Tisha B’Av 2018 / 5778 Sarah Yehudit Schneider This year we have an awkward convergence. Tisha B’Av—the day for mourning the woes of our nation—falls on Shabbos—our day of spiritual delight [...]

A Tisha B’Av Talk and Suggestion for Elul Work Sarah Yehudit Schneider My question is: how can it be, that for two thousand years we’ve known that Baseless Hatred is what caused our exile, [...]

Tisha B’av 5777 / 2017 Sarah Yehudit Schneider [When you come into your Promised Land] HaShem will only uproot the nations before you gradually, little by little. You will not be able to [...]

Tisha B’Av teachings over the years (2007-present).

Tisha B’Av, 5774/2014 Sarah Yehudit Schneider Yehoshua ben Levi met Mashiach and asked him: “When will you come, Master? When will you announce yourself?” Mashiach answered: “Today!” But [...]

“Everything that the Merciful One does is good.”[1] That means everything, without exception. Our job is to find that good…and proclaim it. From this perspective complaints with providence expose [...]

TISHA B’AV 5772 / 2012 Based on R. Tsadok HaKohen Pri Tsadik, Devarim 16 and Resisei Laila, 48 (וביום שני…) Sarah Yehudit Schneider Any person who acquires daat, it is as if he built the [...]

Tisha B’Av 5771 / 2011 Sarah Yehudit Schneider We are about to observe our one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-forty-first (1,941st ) Tisha b’Av fast.  That amounts to a lot of hope…and a lot of [...]

Tisha B’Av, 5770/2010 Sarah Yehudit Schneider Everyone knows that Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av) is the lowest point of the Jewish calendar. HaShem’s protective aura thins, and we grow vulnerable to [...]

Tisha B’Av1, 5769/2009 “Jerusalem…her impurity is in her hems” (Lamentations 1:9). Anyone who has sat with the question, “Who am I?”, for more than a minute has surely realized that it is a [...]

Tisha B’Av, 5768 / 2008 based on Zohar 3:158a Everyone knows that Tisha B’Av (the 9th of Av) is the lowest point of the Jewish calendar. HaShem’s protective aura thins, and we grow vulnerable to [...]

Tisha B’Av, A Potent Meditation by Sarah Yehudit Schneider Everyone knows that Av is the month that includes the most fateful day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’Av (the 9 of Av), which is [...]