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17th of Tammuz: Exile, Awareness, and the Five Avodot of Return
In this shiur delivered on the 17th of Tammuz, Rav Dov Ber Cohen explores the spiritual anatomy of galus — not only as a historical condition, but as an inner state of distance, confusion, and lost awareness. Drawing on the five tragedies associated with this day, he shows how each one reflects a fracture in our relationship with Hashem: the broken luchot, the interrupted tamid, the breached walls of kedusha, the burning of Torah values, and the idol placed in the Beis HaMikdash. Rabbi Dov Ber teaches that the broken tablets were carried alongside the whole ones inside the Aron HaKodesh…
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