[Avodah] tora and 9 av

[saul newman]

seen online.....

So maybe we just don't accept this ruling of the Rema. It wouldn't be the
first time. However, I like to turn to the words of the Chafetz Chayim
*(BH* 553),
who writes:

I am inclined to allow, even on a weekday, to study until near twilight,
and were I not apprehensive of my colleagues, I would say that even on the
day of 9 Av itself, we should be lenient; for in our great sins, the
generations have become corrupted, and on the day of 9 Av they loiter in
the streets and engage in idle chatter, and even those who are literate and
some of the scholarly are lenient about this.

If this sage had lived another century and witnessed Google chats and
Facebook loitering, I think he would have overcome his apprehension


---halevai one's worst sins were learning forbidden tora on tisha bav...
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