“…we would have been like Sodom, resembled Gemorrah…” (Yeshaya 1:9) The three Shabbasos that intervene between the seventeenth of Tammuz and the ninth of Av are referred to as the “Shabbasos of calamity”. The Haftorah, the selection from the Prophets which is read on these Shabbasos, reflects the mood of this time period, a period […]
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