Confronting Our Grief

As we approach the first Tisha B'Av after October 7th, many of us are grappling with difficult questions, questions about faith, searing loss, and our relationship with God. This course isn't an explicit attempt to process the events of that terrible day. Instead, it's a personal exploration of what Tisha B'Av might mean to us now in what feels like a changed world. 

In this first video, Rabbi David Fohrman reflects on the daunting challenge Tisha B’Av presents to us, every year but especially this year: how do you relate to God from a place of pain and sorrow? He suggests we might find an answer to this question, and maybe even a framework for facing our present raw wounds, by turning our attention to Kinot and their call to mourn terrible tragedies from the ancient past.