This morning we discuss the Three Week period of mourning we enter today, culminating in Tisha B'av, our saddest day of the Jewish year. I wish every proponent and opponent of judicial reform in Israel, would spend one hour watching this. We discuss the nature of what we lost with the destruction of the Temple (much more than just a building) from Rabbi Aaron Lichtenstein, and how to regain it. We examine an essay by Yossi Klein Halevi who urges us to transform this time from three weeks of mourning to three weeks of healing, which we so desperately need now. We tell a poignant story from Rabbi Meilech Biderman on trying to learn to love and help others without being slapped first. And we examine another tragic incident in modern Israeli history, where Jews fighting against Jews came close to civil war, as a warning against the hysteria and demonization of the other taking place in Israel today. Many serious people in Israel today are truly afraid of civil war. Listen, for just one hour, and be willing to take a step back from that brink.

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

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