UPDATED 2024: Links are updated with this year’s videos and new ones are added. Have a meaningful fast. -BCP
You’re looking to connect to the meaning of the day. These resources will help.
We’ve updated our comprehensive list to bring you all the resources available to inspire us all throughout Tisha B’Av night and day. Note that some options require a donation to watch.
If any videos are hosted on YouTube, those videos are also embedded here so they can be watched without navigating off BCP.
Click here for the What to Watch & Where to Listen – Jewish Kids Edition. We also have a post of good reads.
Did we miss anything? Please leave a comment with other sources of inspiration for Tisha B’Av. (And see other reader recommendations from past years, including helpful call-in options!)
Do you know of any hotline where I can listen to eicha tnight in Yiddish? Thank you!
Perhaps Kol Haloshon since it’s a Yiddish hotline.
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/51689/RENE—I
(Updated link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWxeqwsPUk)
This is an excellent documentary “Rene and I” made about my father and his twin sister and their journey before during and after Auschwitz. Everyone have an easy and meaningful fast. May this be our last sad Tisha Bav!
Thank you Mia! I just watched the documentary and I am incredibly inspired by your father and aunt. They seem like amazing people!
I’m so glad Esti. They are amazing, that’s for sure!
Maybe it’s irrelevant but for the record, while the below posts by “Mia” look legitimate and might have great content, I did not post them.
wow, thanks for the link. was really inspiring holocaust account. helped pass the time…thanks!
I just watched this documentary. Thank you for posting it- I have no words……
Call Chazak at 718 258 2008 for inspiring shiurim about the three weeks and tisha b’av. To hear personal stories about the Holocaust, press 9 and then 3.
Have an easy fast everyone!
You can also listen to live streams of many Tisha bav events by calling the Torah Anytime hotline at 641 552 5300. If you press 1, it gives you a choice of many speakers, and you will listen to their latest shiurim about the three weeks/9 days.
Parses Shlomo shiur hotline 718 480 5222
Thank you for this list!
Web yeshiva offers free classes every year on Tisha B’av.
Torah Anytime hotline at 641 552 5300
I also found it funny to see another Mia on Between Carpools, since it’s not the most common name!
By the way,
Teens can listen to Tic Talk Inspiration at 201 855 8255
Thank you Mia for sharing this. I’ve never been so moved and touched like this ! What great people Rene and Irene are, so positive, so kind. Very inspirational
Project Light will be having a full day event for teen girls!
Email teensfindthelight@gmail.com to join!
For those that cannot watch the live streams, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation has an option to listen to the full Tisha B’av event by phone.
Call 845-293-1500, you will be prompted to pay the $18 fee and then will be provided with the phone number and pin # to access the full program (Programs A & B, Women’s panel, and bonus video…)
The OU website has kinos by rabbis weinreb and weil that are a must listen
I would love something light and inspiring. I am not up to heavy or very sad. Which of the above videos do you most recommend? Thanks!!
S – I haven’t watched these but the one by Rabbi Sinclair “true love” and the one by Rabbi YY Jacobson called “the destructive power of fear” seem like they might be focused more on uplifting. Has anyone watched them and can confirm if that’s correct? Wishing you an uplifting, meaningful day and, of course, the geula very very soon xx
Thank you for the expansive list. Pls note that you said it won’t send you to you tube, but I just clicked on one of the Rabbi Gold videos and it sent me straightto you tube, and the othervideos on the page were not all Rabbi Gold.
The videos with links to YouTube are also embedded in the post so they can be watched without navigating off BCP.