Tisha B’Av 2015: Why Are We Comforted Twice?

Posted by Gideon Weitzman on July 28, 2015
Topics: Tisha B'av, The Three Weeks

This lecture was held at Pardes as part of the Tisha B’Av program 2015.

The verses of redemption in the Tanach present a deep understanding of the essence of redemption. The question is how does this understanding contribute to our comprehension of our modern life in the Land of Israel and beyond?

About Gideon Weitzman

Rabbi Gideon Weitzman is director of the Puah Institute, rabbi of the Merkaz Modiin Synagogue in Modiin, and visiting associate principal in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He writes a weekly column in the Torah Tidbits on medical ethics and has published three books on the philosophy of Rav Kook.

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