Tisha B’Av

A Story of A Name

August 16, 2011
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A Story of A Name

The story behind the name, and the website, how it all began-By Stephen C. Sanders- August 16, 2011 3:25pm EST This web site has come a long way, only with a a very constant and varied level of effort over time.   Perhaps a brief digression regarding the initial thought behind this website might be in order. My previous web production was a very analytic yet deeply philosophical analysis regarding a play that I had seen produced in the Shakespeare in the Park series in Central Park, New York City. The play. The Seagull, was written by Anton Chekhov, and Natalie Portman, and Meryl Streep (amongst others) appeared in this production. I mentioned the play above in context to tell how the plan for this website “fell into place”. -S. Sanders-   If one were forced to either critique for better or worse my particular writing style, I believe it could summed up as, a series of digressions from digressions.

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Learn Their Mistakes, Or Be Doomed To Repeat Them!

August 9, 2011
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Gary Kasparov: Making Mistakes in Chess- Aharon Moshe Sanders, Making Mistakes in Life-AhMbDvd August 9, 6:17pm Gary Kasparov: Making Mistakes in Chess   A master chess player Gary Kasparov fully explains the value of mistakes in something as simple as “a game”. However a game, has so many valuable examples that can be applied to real life, that I felt it very fitting to have the man himself explain exactly what mistakes are all about, and how they contain essential elements to allowing experienced palyers to grow.   Today we live in a world where the greatest thinkers, politicians, leaders and experts in their fields are every bit as prone to make mistakes as ever/ The difference is the unfortunate tendency on either the part of the media or even on the individual level to simply ignore, deny, or create convoluted explanations justifying these errors. Far better is to assume as our chess master friend Gary Kasparov is telling us here, that mistakes will occur, and we need to go back and analyze what went went wrong, so as to to become stronger when faced with similar issues in the future.   Accepting the inevitability and responsibility for strategic errors in

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Foundtion of the Fast- Tisha B’Av.

August 7, 2011
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Publisher’s Note: If one is trying to upload original Videos using YouTube, the amount of time it takes is incredibly slow. Unfortunately this problem has slowed down this series almost to standstill. There has got to be a better way! There are perhaps half a dozen of these videos left and there simply has to be a better way to upload these large files! Rabbi Singer shlita of Passaic Torah Institute in rare form using established mussar text translates the original Hebrew and explains as he goes. The foundation of a fast, what the fast is supposed to accomplish. Rabbi Shlomo Singer of Passaic Torah Institute using established mussar text translates the original Hebrew and explains as he goes. The foundation of a fast, what the fast is supposed to accomplish.

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Multi Video Series: Mussar- Tisha B’Av August 2, 2011

August 5, 2011
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Rabbi Shlomo Singer Shliat- Introduction of Multi-Part, Multi Days explanation of the spiritual values of a Fast and application in Tish B’Av. August 2, 2011.

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How can we understand the Jewish Holiday of Tish B’Av?

August 2, 2011
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Rabbi Shlomo Singer Shlita of Passaic NJ, answers several important questions and then gets to the Tisha B’Av question right before the 5:50 (min) mark on the video. There will be a subsequent part two to follow, from the same talk. Unfortunately the 8 Gigabyte SD card had filled up and I had to delete some files before moving on. The video below was recorded by Stephen C. Sanders, the author and publisher of this website. Stephen C. Sanders lives in the frum community of Passaic and is available to record your shiur or simcha for a very modest cost. The publisher of this website and others is also looking for working or investment partners on several different projects in their various stages of completion. Despite the reference that Rabbi Shlomo singer makes to me, using my Hebrew name of Aharon Moshe,  as a wealthy individual in truth my wealth is in having an abundance of ideas and creativity. It just so happens that I also am the owner of a significant portfolio of domains, as well as dozens of active Alexa rated web sites which are need of some refinements. More on the matters above on some of my

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