tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647004984448068921.post3361035605709010954..comments2022-03-25T08:39:45.455-07:00Comments on Thinking About Chinuch: Teaching about Churban YerushalayimAaron Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14634159184538374914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647004984448068921.post-87320087159789237092011-08-15T23:06:34.567-07:002011-08-15T23:06:34.567-07:00great post
like the idea of using 10 of tevet as t...great post<br />like the idea of using 10 of tevet as the day for teaching the importance of yerushayaim.<br />i heard someone speak over last shabbat and h noted that it is very difficut for us to feel the loss of yerushalayim. his suggestion was to teach the facts about central the city was to all jewish life through halacha and aggadah..Steven Pennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09505385555134386679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647004984448068921.post-19416240128821451872011-08-10T09:39:26.706-07:002011-08-10T09:39:26.706-07:00I did not say that we have no other way of commemo...I did not say that we have no other way of commemorating them, just that we have not created another day specifically designed the commemorate them. It is true that we have added a practice here or there to commemorate various events, but there is no clear day that is meant for us to focus on the Crusades or the Burning of the Talmud. Something such as a fast for the burning of the Talmud would seem to be a holdover from a practice devised by a particular community, much like there were those who commemorated the Chmielnitzki riots on the 20th of Sivan - ultimately, Tisha B'Av won out (for everything other than the Holocaust, although that is still a recent event and who knows what will become of it as it recedes into history).Aaron Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14634159184538374914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647004984448068921.post-64118235549183415352011-08-10T09:03:27.365-07:002011-08-10T09:03:27.365-07:00I'd question whether you are correct about not...I'd question whether you are correct about not having any other commemorations of the events you mention - the Crusades and the burning of the Talmud.<br /><br />As to the former, some of the customs associated with Sefirat HaOmer are also intertwined with the Crusades (e.g., reciting Av HaRachamim even on Shabbat Mevarchim HaChodesh).<br /><br />And as to the latter, there are still some (though not many), I think, who commemorate Erev Shabbat, Parshat Chukat as a day of fasting in memory of the burning of the Talmud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7647004984448068921.post-29761797366671495702011-08-09T21:53:45.403-07:002011-08-09T21:53:45.403-07:00You raise some good points, but the post could hav...You raise some good points, but the post could have come with a preface that it is mostly not relevant to your colleagues in Australia and South Africa.yoni r.noreply@blogger.com