Reply To: Flatbush Tisha b'Av Event

As with years past, there was insufficient cake and soda and bottled water to accommodate everyone, I thought.

I enjoyed R’ Schachter’s drasha the best. Since I think of Tisha b’Av as a day of complete solemnity (for me, I feel closer to HKBH on this day than Rosh haShanah even), his thoughts were very pertinent, I felt.

I would have welcomed the opportunity to be there for Eicha on klaf (R’ Yona Reiss paskens that a bracha is made when this is done; I don’t know if the rabbanim at this event held that way). I didn’t get there until 4ish.