Chapter 11: The Laws of the Nine Days
Rejoicing and happiness are limited when the month of Av arrives, (until the 10th of Av) because historically it was a time of calamity and suffering for the Jewish People. Consequently there are several restrictions.
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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Foreword
- Chapter 2: Rabbi’s Message
- Chapter 3: Introduction
- Chapter 4: Laws of the Seventeenth of Tammuz
- Chapter 5: Laws of the Aneinu Prayer
- Chapter 6: Laws for reading of the Torah
- Chapter 7: Individuals who are absolved from fasting
- Chapter 8: The Period between the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av
- Chapter 9: Laws of Mourning for the three weeks
- Chapter 10: General Laws of the Three Weeks
- Chapter 11: The Laws of the Nine Days
- Chapter 12: Simhah-related Prohibitions
- Chapter 13: Postponing Lawsuits
- Chapter 14: Construction, Painting, and Decorating
- Chapter 15: Sewing and Mending Clothes
- Chapter 16: Eating Meat and Drinking Wine
- Chapter 17: Laws Regarding the Week of Tishah B’Av
- Chapter 18: Prohibition of Cleaning and Laundering Clothing
- Chapter 19: Prohibition of Bathing and Swimming
- Chapter 20: Prohibitions of Haircutting and Shaving
- Chapter 21: Laws of Erev Tishah B’Av (after midday)
- Chapter 22: Halachot of the Seudah Hamafseket
- Chapter 23: Important Criteria of Seudah Hamafseket
- Chapter 24: Introduction — What Happened on Tishah B’Av?
- Chapter 25: Prohibitions of Tishah B’Av
- Chapter 26: Laws of Tishah B’Av
- Chapter 27: people Who Are Absolved From Fasting
- Chapter 28: Washing and Bathing
- Chapter 29: Anointing
- Chapter 30: Wearing Shoes
- Chapter 31: Learning Torah
- Chapter 32: Cohabitation
- Chapter 33: Greeting Others
- Chapter 34: Work or Business
- Chapter 35: Sitting on a Chair
- Chapter 36: Pleasurable Activities
- Chapter 37: Tishah B’Av Evening
- Chapter 38: Tishah B’Av Morning
- Chapter 39: Tishah B’Av Afternoon
- Chapter 40: The Night After the Fast
- Chapter 41: The Tenth of Av
- Chapter 42: When Tishah B’Av Falls on Sunday
- Chapter 43: The Beginning of the Exile
- Chapter 44: The Temple is Destroyed
- Chapter 45: Hashem and the Avot Weep
- Chapter 46: Roman Dominion over Judea Begins (3700-3826/ 61 B.C.E. – 66 CE)
- Chapter 47: Jerusalem Besieged
- Chapter 48: Starvation in Jerusalem (3829 / 69 CE)
- Chapter 49: Battling for Jerusalem (3830 / 70 CE)
- Chapter 50: Destruction of the Temple (3830/ 70 CE)
- Chapter 51: Fall of Beitar (3883-3893 / 123 CE - 133 CE)