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Three Weeks - The Mourning We Don’t Feel: How to Belong to a Beis HaMikdash We Never Saw

How do we belong to a story we did not experience?

In this shiur, delivered at The Space, Rav Burg explores one of the deepest challenges of the Three Weeks: how can we mourn a Beis HaMikdash we never saw?

We may know the facts of the Churban, but information is not experience. Knowledge is not mourning. Mourning begins when the loss becomes personal enough that we feel the emptiness.

Drawing on the Torah’s understanding of aveilus, the psychology of healthy mourning, this shiur shows that mourning is not merely sadness. It is creating an enduring relationship. It is the refusal to move on…

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