Sacred Pain: The Month of Av 2026
“Grief is the one pain that heals all others. It is the most important pain there is.”[1] —Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend Av is a month of both grief and comfort. It begins in the narrow place of the Three Weeks and carries us through Tisha B’Av, the great day of communal mourning over the destruction of the Temples and other tragedies in Jewish history. The Three Weeks begin on the 17th…

















