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No Distractions

 

According to Mori V'Rabi  Harav Hagaon R.Shlomo Miller Shlita: It is very important to refrain from being מסיח דעת (distracted) of the חורבן הבית during the שבוע שחל בו ת"ב The משנה ברורה תקנ"א ס"ק כ"א explains the reason for not doing the laundry is because it looks like he is מסיח דעת. If it just looks like being מסיח דעת is wrong to do so קל וחומר how much more so when one is actually being מסיח דעת"

Our Minhag is to be Machmir

.משנכנס אב ממעטין בשמחה According to the Chasam Sofer,(O.Ch. 160) the Halacha of משנכנס אב ממעטין בשמחה refers to only one Halacha, "Not to build a בנין של שמחה in the nine days".(starting ר"ח) All the other restrictions, Halachically doesn't start on Rosh Chodesh Av but starts at the beginning of the week of Tisha B'av. שבוע שחל בו. Ashkenazim start the restrictions from Rosh Chodesh because the Rema says that this is our Minhag ואנו נוהגין להחמיר. The Mechaber in Shulchan Aruch uses the term of אסור only for שבוע שחל בו. Even the Rema who holds the restrictions do start from Rosh Chodesh will usually use the term ואנו נוהגין להחמיר בכל זה מתחילת ר"ח etc. The reason for it is because both the Rema and the Mechaber hold that we don't Pasken like רב in the גמרא who holds Halachically it starts from ר"ח.

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The קינות compendium

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לז"נ זקיני הקדוש ר' משה בן ר' ישעי' הי"ד נעקד"ה ג' באב ע"י הגרמנים הארורים ימ"ש עשרה דבריא על הקינות לט' באב 1) The ר"א הקליר wrote 50 קינות for Tisha B'av. We say only 19 of them.  2) We say.  3 קינות written for the גזירת תתנ"ו (crusades)  22  unknown       החרישו ממני   25 מי יתן ראש  ר' קלונימס ב' יהודה 33 אבל אעורר     ר' מנחם ב' מכיר 3) The ראב"ן wrote re the crusades that it is unheard of 1000 עקידות (killings) per day (There was one day when they killed 1300) Unfortunately, this is no longer relevant today because  the Nazis ימ"ש killed as many as 15.000 Jews each day.  4) In the "קינה, "ארזי הלבנון re the  עשרה הרוגי מלכות, you will only find 8 and not 10   (I don't know why) 5) R.M.B. Weissmandel Zt"l wrote a קינה on the Holocaust that is recited by many on Tisha B'Av. R.M.B.W. laments the fact that Yidden accepted the wiedergutmachung funds (the reparations that the German government agreed to pay). He laments the mountains of money that can't compensate for the thousands of valleys of the dead. - The sons who blocked their ears from the cries of their father. The orphan son collects his inheritance (blood money) from the nation that murdered his father.   6) The פייטן in קינות לתשעה באב #37 writes, "בך כל בהמה ועוף חכמו עדי כחמור היה לפנים לבן יאיר חמוריך" "Within you (Zion) every animal & bird grew wise to the point where even the donkeys were as intelligent as the donkey of (Pinchas) Ben Yair". (ie: Animals in Eretz Yisroel are smarter than Chutz La'aretz animals) It is claimed that the most intelligent Arabs are the Palestinians. Perhaps, the reason for it is because if אוירא דארץ ישראל affects the חמורים, it surely must also affects the עם הדומה לחמור However, we must apply the Talmudic rule of דיו לבא מן הדין להיות כנדון.  In a קל וחומר we limit the חומר to the same measure as the קל. Therefore the קל וחומר teaches us that the Israeli ישמעאלי has as much intelligence as the Israeli חמור but not more.               7) IT NEVER REALLY HAPPENED Hrav Shimon Schwab's ZT"L קינה on the Holocaust, that is recited by many on Tisha B;Av, writes, "איך הפכו טורפיהם לברית חלביהם" "How did they transform the tormentors into soap their fat" While the soap-making rumor was widely circulated and published as fact in numerous books and newspaper articles after the war, the myth has been debunked for many decades.[18] Historians such as Deborah Lipstadt have frequently stated: "It is a fact that the Nazis never used the bodies of Jews, or for that matter anyone else, for the production of soap […]. The soap rumor was thoroughly investigated after the war and proved to be untrue."[18] Despite this fact, many "believers" of the myth persist, and Joachim Neander believes that they are unwittingly playing into the hands of Holocaust deniers by giving them a chance to easily debunk the legend, allowing them to cast doubt upon the veracity of the entire Holocaust as such.[18] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 8)  According to the ר' בחיי פ' מקץ   the עשרה הרוגי מלכות  were sentenced to a torturous death. However, none of them  ended up being killed. Somehow there was a mixup with ten Goyim who ended up getting killed instead of the holy תנאים ---------------------------------------------------------- 9)  THE SIX MA NISHTANAS In some Sephardic Kehillos, they say this  Piyut in their Kinos, on Tisha B'av All the 6 stanzas end with מה נשתנה אֲלֵיכֶם עֵדָה קְדוֹשָׁה אֶשְׁאַל מִכֶּם שְׁאֵלוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת מַדּוּעַ בְּלֵיל פֶּסַח אוֹכְלִים מַצּוֹת וּמְרוֹרִים עַתָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה שָׂבַעְנוּ בּוּז וּמְרוֹרִים עַל הֶרֶג הַכְּשֵׁרִים וְעַל זֶרַע יְשָׁרִים עַל כֵּן בִּבְכִי תַּמְרוּרִים אֶשָּׂא קוֹלִי כְחוֹלוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת מַדּוּעַ בְּלֵיל פֶּסַח שֻׁלְחָן עָרוּךְ בְּשִּׂמְחָה עַתָּה בַּעֲווֹנוֹתֵינוּ בְּלֵיל זֶה קוֹל אֲנָחָה אֲהָהּ כִּי לֹא מָצָאנוּ לְכַף רַגְלֵנוּ מְנוּחָה אוֹי כִּי בָאָה צָרָה עַל כֵּן אֶשְׁכַּח מְחוֹלוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת מַדּוּעַ בְּלֵיל פֶּסַח שׁוֹתִים כּוֹסוֹת בִּבְרָכָה עַתָּה אֲנַחְנוּ בְּלֵיל זֶה נִקְרָא מְגִלַּת אֵיכָה אֵיכָה בְּגָלוּת יָשַׁבְתִּי וּבָאתִי אֶרֶץ מְבוּכָה לָכֵן אֲנִי עַל כָּכָה אֲעוֹרֵר קוֹל יְלָלוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת מַדּוּעַ בְּלֵיל פֶּסַח קוֹרִין תָּמִיד הַגָּדָה עַתָּה נֹאמַר בְּלֵיל זֶה בְּכִי תַּמְרוּר וּקְפָדָ האוֹיָה כִּי גַּרְתִּי מֶשֶׁךְ וּבָא עֵת פְּקֻדָּה אוֹי עַל קִרְיָה חֲמוּדָה וְעַל בָּתֵּי תְפִלּוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת מַדּוּעַ בְּלֵיל פֶּסַח נִגְמֹר תָּמִיד הַהַלֵּל עַתָּה אֲנַחְנוּ בְּלֵיל זֶה נְהִי מִסְפֵּד וִילֵיל כִּי בַּעֲווֹנוֹתֵינוּ עַתָּה לֹא נוּכַל לְהִתְפַּלֵּל כִּי בֵּית מִקְדָּשׁ מִתְחַלֵּל וְגַם חָרְבוּ הֵיכָלוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת מַדּוּעַ בְּלֵיל פֶּסַח אוֹמְרִים שְׁפֹךְ בְּזִמְרָה עַתָּה בְּלֵיל זֶה שָׁתִינוּ לַעַן רֹאשׁ וּמָרָה אוֹי כִּי שִׂמְחָה נֶעְדָּרָה דַּרְכֵי צִיּוֹן אֲבֵלוֹת מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת                          ברם זכור אותו האיש לטוב                                                                      In most Kehilos & Shuls at the end of the קינות, an additional קינה is added, lamenting the Holocaust. This Minhag is only about forty years old. It all started with one man, a Holocaust survivor, ר' פנחס הערצקא ז"ל. He was a חשובע בעל הבית and a תלמיד חכם, a Pressburger Yid who lived in Brooklyn.   Mr. Fred Herzka was bothered that on Tisha B'av in addition to lamenting the Churban Habayis we lament other Churbonos (י' הרוגי מלכות crusades)  yet, the greatest Churban of Klal Yisroel since theChurban Bais Hamikdash is totally ignored. He decided to do something about it. He singlehandedly campaigned for  the need to add a special קינה lamenting  Churban Europe. At first, many people ridiculed him for taking up a  lost cause that had no chance of ever happening. Many Gedolim were not so eager in supporting him and some even opposed him. Mr. Herzka didn't take no for an answer. He went to all the Gedolim & Rabbonim convincing them the need of adding a קינה for the Holocaust. He contacted hundreds of Rabbonim seeking their support.  Another obstacle Mr. Herzka encountered, was not being able to unify all Kehillos to agree to one particular קינה.  His solution was to collect & print about 10 different קינות from different Gedolim and suggested every Kehilla make their own decision which one to say. By now most adopted one of the two Kinos R.Shlomo Halberstam Zt"l  Bobover Rebbe and R. Schwab Zt"l. Mr. Herzka managed eventually to convince most Gedolim to add a קינה. Agudas Yisroel of America publicized the ruling of The Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah to add a special קינה (Every Kehilla to chose their own)  lamenting the greatest Churban since the Churban Habayis. This all only happened because of one man's insistence, who ignored all the naysayers and wouldn't take no for an answer, Mr. Pinchas Herzka ע"ה                       יהא זכרו ברוך

According to Mori V'Rabi

 

According to Mori V'Rabi  Harav Hagaon R.Shlomo Miller Shlita,  Women who don't usually Daven מעריב should preferably make  an exception when תשעה באב falls on מוצאי שבת and  Daven מעריב.  When there is no הבדלה בכוס. (on  מוצש"ק) you should have at least הבדלה בתפילה.