This coming Saturday evening and Sunday are Tisha B'Av - the Ninth of Av - the saddest day of the Jewish calendar - marking the destruction of our Holy Temples in Jerusalem. On this day, we fast and pray. We do not eat, drink, wear leather shoes, groom ourselves or do many other things (read more here and here).
We will be hosting special Tisha B'Av services unlike those held on any other day of the year.
Saturday night schedule:
7:52 pm Fast Begins - We do not eat or drink from this time.
8:26 pm We do not wear leather shoes or sit on a regular chair from this time.
8:33 pm Shabbos ends
8:35 pm Tisha B'Av Program Begins at Chabad
Maariv, Reading of Eicha (Lamentations), Live feed to the Kotel, and
Film Presentation: New Documentary: 'with my Whole Broken Heart' (see below)
Sunday Morning Schedule:
8:00 am Shacharis (without Tallis and Tefillin)
8:30 am Torah Reading
9:15 am Reading of Kinos & Lamentations
10 am Study about the First & Second Temples and Tisha B'Av
Sunday Evening Schedule:
7:00 pm Mincha WITH Tallis and Tefillin
8:19 pm Fast Ends & Havdalah
May this day turn into a day of joy with the coming of Moshiach Tzidkeinu speedily in our days!
Rabbi Zalman Carlebach
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