Old Posts about Tisha B'av and the Nine Days

• The fake siyum, and the pious frauds who make them
• Um, when was the Temple destroyed? Our own holy books disagree on the date.
• Two nice snippets from Yehudah Halevi
• A brief history of Esav's association with Rome
• I wonder how many of those who say Yom Hashoa is redundant "because of Tisha B'av" actually say the Holocaust kinnot? &c
• Tisha B'av is a nine day holiday when Jews don't wear shoes? That's what an article in the New York Times said. 
• Myths vs facts: Tisha B'av version
• My Tisha B'av: How I passed the day in 2005
• The infuriating Shabbas Chazon event
• What does Psalm 137 (Al Naharot Bavel) really say? Find out here
• The truth about Eli Tziyon, the famous dirge that ends the recitation of kinot
• Why was the Temple destroyed? Best explanation ever, found right here

What follows is a no-music, voices only, men only, presentation of Salamone de Rossi's Al Naharot Bavel. Who was Salamone de Rossi? Shame on you. de Rossi was a brilliant Italian composer, who in the 17th century(!) set many of our prayers to music in the baroque style.

Think of him a Lipa Smeltzer's spiritual great great great grandpappy.

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