Introduction

This four-part series was originally published in 2016. Rabbi Mike Feuer teaches on the 17th of Tammuz through Tisha B’Av.

Part 1: The 17th of Tammuz – A Feast of Brokeness: Rabbi Mike Feuer’s message for the 17th of Tammuz is that you must embrace the power of brokenness in order to transform our mourning to joy.
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Part 2: The Three Weeks: What Being Broken Has to Add: In this podcast, Rabbi Mike Feuer looks at the Three Weeks and gives his brief take on what being broken and in a state of mourning has to add to our lives.

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Part 3: The Three Weeks: Finding Comfort in the Breaking: In this podcast, Rabbi Mike Feuer continues his series on the three weeks with the question – how do we transform the blows of life from damaging to growthful?

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Part 4: Tisha B’Av – Fast Or Feast? In this final installment for the Three Weeks, Rabbi Mike looks into the question of feasting or fasting on Tisha B’Av. One might think that whether to fast on Tisha b’Av is a new question, but the prophet Zechariah teaches us otherwise. Nevertheless, who would think of feasting?

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BONUS for After the Fast: Tu B’Av – Joy of The Flesh Rabbi Mike talks about how Tu B’Av celebrates the resurrection, and offers a new relationship to embodied life altogether.

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Mike Feuer

Rabbi Mike Feuer teaches Striving for the Divine, Rav Kook, and Jewish History at Pardes. He studied at Yeshivat HaMivtar, the Mir Yeshiva, and Sulam Yaakov, where he received rabbinic ordination and later served as Educational Director. Mike’s teaching combines rigorous textual analysis with a deep love of the poetry and spirituality found in Torah.

Since making aliyah in 2001, he has been the program director of a post-high school yeshiva and taught history, Jewish thought, and Bible in several Jerusalem yeshivot and midrashot. Today, as a consultant, spiritual counselor and creator of the Jewish Story podcast, Mike is driven by the power of story to shape our world.