This Tuesday is the fast day of 17 Tammuz (see article 2), which inaugurates the Three Weeks mourning period (see article 1) for the two destroyed Holy Temples in Jerusalem.
Sunday (today) is the yahrzeit of the holy Ohr HaChayim, the great Kabbalist and sage from Morocco in the mid-1700's (see article 7).
This week's Torah reading generates a discussion about the relative merits of the land (see article 4) on each side of the Jordan River.
This week we also launch this year's third cycle of weekly Pirkei Avot study (see article 3).