Tisha B’Av Services

Evening services will take place on Sunday, July 25 at 7:30pm

Morning services will begin on Monday, July 26 at 8:45am

Tisha B’Av is a twenty–four–hour fast day that commemorates the destruction of the first and second Temples. It is the culmination of a three–week period of solemnity known as Bein HaMetzarim, “Amidst the Straits,” which is initiated by the sunup-to-sundown fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz, occurring this year on July 5. On that day, the
Babylonians first breeched Jerusalem’s walls in 586 BCE. Known as the “Great Black Fast,” Tisha B’Av has also became a day of general mourning for other major disasters that have befallen the Jewish people, from the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290 to the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto.

This year, we will observe this day of commemoration with a special Maariv service, including the reading of Aicha, the Book of Lamentations, on Saturday, July 25, beginning at 7:45 P.M.  Our observance will continue at the
morning service on July 26, at 8:45 A.M., during which we will chant special selections from the Torah and Prophets as well as dirges known as Kinot.