Seven Years After: Remarks at Memorial during Tisha B’Av 5769
Posted in vlog on Aug 6th, 2009
Thirty-five years ago, at an informal shiur in Boston before Tisha B’Av, a fellow student asked our Master Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik a question. It seems that the Geonim [period after the completion of the Talmud in Bavel] actually forbade the practice of saying Birkhot HaTorah, the blessings before Torah study, on the 9th [...]