Hidden Courage – Presented by Yad L’Achim
A powerful film featuring 4 remarkable stories of Jewish resilience:
- Rabbi Paysach Krohn shares how he survived a terrifying stroke with unshakable faith.
- Elchanan Danino speaks about his son, Ori, who was killed in Gaza while rescuing friends.
- Koby L., a Yad L’Achim hero, reveals his mission to rescue Jewish women and children from Arab villages.
- Shai Graucher reflects on overcoming the loss of his beloved father, Dedi.
These stories will move you, inspire you, and remind you of the courage within our nation.
Rabbi Spero’s Tisha B’Av Presentation
Join thousands around the world for an emotional, heartfelt video by master master mechanech Rabbi Yechiel Spero.
With his signature warmth and insight, Rabbi Spero delivers a powerful message of chizuk, hope, and healing, helping us connect to the day’s pain while discovering the light that lies within it.
This inspiring video will touch your heart, strengthen your emunah, and leave you feeling uplifted long after the fast is over.
🧒 A Message for Children – with Rabbi Eli Scheller
A meaningful and captivating Tisha B’Av video created just for kids.
Through powerful storytelling, your children will learn timeless lessons about:
- A man who lost everything… and still found joy.
- One of the Mossad’s most secretive missions ever.
- A wealthy man’s surprising contest to choose an heir.
Kids will walk away with a stronger understanding of Ahavas Yisroel, resilience, and what it truly means to be united as a nation.
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This is terrible news! Has Tisha B’Av been reduced to cheap emotional video clips? Is this all we can do on Tisha B’Av? Maybe they should get time-release popcorn tablets to take along with the Tylenol and electrolytes. It is such a chaval, and there is no voice against it. I don’t know what the Heter is for videos that do not encourage sadness and mourning for the churban, which mostly, these movies do not do.
My grandfather and namesake, a devout Vizhnitze chosid, came to America before the war, and at the time, the most Torahdik Yeshiva was RJJ, so my uncles, very young at the time, went there. One day the kids came home and told their father they were shown a movie about the Civil War. That was it! My grandfather pulled the boys out of the Yeshiva, called the menahel and told him, “Here I battle to keep my sons and daughters from going to movies in their free time, a pure מושב לצים, (remember that this is the 1930s, movie content was very “kosher”) and then I send the boys to Yeshiva where they bring the movies to them?!” He moved them over to Torah V’Daas which had just opened (ok, ok, YTV also showed us history movies, but you get my point — movies, especially cheap emotional ones that can affect someone, are not לכתחילה!). Now I’m not saying that my grandfather’s European chassidishe path is the one, but first they showed videos of personalities giving shmuessen, and over the years it had evolved to likely דברים אסורים בט׳ באב. AND THERE IS NO VOICE AGAINST THIS! Maybe I’m crazy?