The Tisha Be'Av schedule and information is in this email as follows:
1) Times of Fast
2) Services
3) Laws of Tisha Be'Av
4) Thoughts on Tisha Be'AV
For Zoom Info please Contact Rabbi Yaffe
1) Times: Wednesday Evening 7/29/20 - Fast Begins 8:10 PM
Thursday 7/30/20 - Mid-Day 12:56 PM (You can now sit on a regular chair)
Fast Ends 8:45 PM
2) Services:
I. Tisha Be'AV Evening Wednesday 7/29: ZOOM service - Mincha followed by Maariv, Book of Eicha / Lamentations and some Kinot Mincha 8:00 PM Maariv and Eicha 8:15PM
Also on Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/
We will be displaying Eicha and Kinot on the screen but here are links:
Eicha: https://www.sefaria.
Eicha: https://www.sefaria.org/
II. Tisha Be'AV Shacharit Thursday 7/30 - 7:00 AM Service at Synagogue in Social Hall far left corner Followed by short kinot - finished about 8:15PM (No Tallit and Tefillin)
Also on Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/
FB live: https://www.facebook.
Link to Kinot online: https://www.sefaria.
III. Tisha Be'AV Afternoon: Tallit Tefillin and Mincha/ Maariv Thursday 7/30 -at 7:30 PM Service at Synagogue in Main Sanctuary
FB live: https://www.facebook.
3) Laws of Tisha Be'AV
How 9 Av Is Observed Starting from midday on 8 Av, we limit our Torah study to the few allowed topics that are of a sad nature or pertain to the Temples’ destruction.
We eat a square meal in the afternoon, before Minchah services. Then, late in the afternoon, a “separation meal,” seudah hamafseket, is eaten. It consists of bread and a hard-boiled egg dipped in ashes, accompanied by water. This meal is eaten alone, sitting on a low stool. The meal must be over by sundown, when all the laws of Tisha B’Av take effect. Tisha B’Av evening services are held in synagogue, where the ark has been stripped of its decorative curtain and the lights dimmed. Evening prayers are followed by the chanting of Eichah (Lamentations).
Morning prayers are held without tallit and tefillin, since both are considered adornments. Most of the morning is ocupied by the reading of Kinot, elegies marking the various tragedies that befell our people.
Work is permitted on Tisha B’Av, but discouraged. On this day, one’s focus should be on mourning and repentance. If one must work, it is preferable to begin after midday. It is customary to give extra charity on Tisha B’Av, as on every fast day.
After midday, it is permissible to sit on chairs, and tallit and tefillin are worn during the afternoon prayer. In the synagogue, the ark’s curtain is restored to its place before the afternoon prayers.
The fast begins at sunset of the 8th of Av 8:10 PM on 7/29 and concludes at nightfall 8:45 PM on the following night on 7/30.
During this time, we do not Eat or drink, wear leather footwear, bathe or wash ourselves (washing only until the knuckle when mandated by halachah)
NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic all washing for sanitary purposes (rather than ritual) should be done fully and normally with soap for 20 seconds as recommended by the CDC
Also if you have any questions about fasting due to difficulty please contact Rabbi Yaffe
or apply ointments or creams, engage in marital relations or any form of intimacy
We also don’t sit on a normal-height chair until chatzot (the time when the sun has reached its apex)
study Torah (except for the “sad” parts that deal with the destruction of the Temples, etc.)
send gifts, or even greet one another (you may respond to greetings)
engage in outings, trips or similar pleasurable activities, wear fine, festive clothing
On Tisha B’Av evening services are held in synagogue, where the ark has been stripped of its decorative curtain and the lights dimmed. Evening prayers are followed by the chanting of Eichah (Lamentations).
Work is permitted on Tisha B’Av, but discouraged. On this day, one’s focus should be on mourning and repentance. If one must work, it is preferable to begin after midday. It is customary to give extra charity on Tisha B’Av, as on every fast day. After midday, it is permissible to sit on chairs, and tallit and tefillin are worn during the afternoon prayer. In the synagogue, the ark’s curtain is restored to its place before the afternoon prayers.
After the Fast When night falls, before breaking the fast, one should perform netilat yadayim (hand-washing), this time covering the entire hand with water, but without reciting the blessing. It is also customary to perform Kiddush Levanah at this point, celebrating the rebirth of the moon, and our hoped-for national rebirth.
The Temple was set ablaze on the afternoon of the 9th of Av, and it burned through the 10th. Therefore, the restrictions of the Nine Days (such as not eating meat, swimming or laundering clothing) extend until midday of the 10th of Av. This year haircuts, bathing and laundering are all permitted on the 10th of Av (7/31) Before Mid-day (but not eating meat and drinking wine until mid-day) because it is Friday and we need to prepare for Shabbat
4) Thoughts on Tisha Be'AV: A Debt of TruthOn the Ninth of Av we mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, which was twice destroyed on this date — each time leading to exile for the Jewish people.
1) Times: Wednesday Evening 7/29/20 - Fast Begins 8:10 PM
Thursday 7/30/20 - Mid-Day 12:56 PM (You can now sit on a regular chair)
Fast Ends 8:45 PM
2) Services:
I. Tisha Be'AV Evening Wednesday 7/29: ZOOM service - Mincha followed by Maariv, Book of Eicha / Lamentations and some Kinot Mincha 8:00 PM Maariv and Eicha 8:15PM
Also on Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/
We will be displaying Eicha and Kinot on the screen but here are links:
Eicha: https://www.sefaria.
Eicha: https://www.sefaria.org/
II. Tisha Be'AV Shacharit Thursday 7/30 - 7:00 AM Service at Synagogue in Social Hall far left corner Followed by short kinot - finished about 8:15PM (No Tallit and Tefillin)
Also on Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/
FB live: https://www.facebook.
Link to Kinot online: https://www.sefaria.
III. Tisha Be'AV Afternoon: Tallit Tefillin and Mincha/ Maariv Thursday 7/30 -at 7:30 PM Service at Synagogue in Main Sanctuary
FB live: https://www.facebook.
3) Laws of Tisha Be'AV
How 9 Av Is Observed Starting from midday on 8 Av, we limit our Torah study to the few allowed topics that are of a sad nature or pertain to the Temples’ destruction.
We eat a square meal in the afternoon, before Minchah services. Then, late in the afternoon, a “separation meal,” seudah hamafseket, is eaten. It consists of bread and a hard-boiled egg dipped in ashes, accompanied by water. This meal is eaten alone, sitting on a low stool. The meal must be over by sundown, when all the laws of Tisha B’Av take effect. Tisha B’Av evening services are held in synagogue, where the ark has been stripped of its decorative curtain and the lights dimmed. Evening prayers are followed by the chanting of Eichah (Lamentations).
Morning prayers are held without tallit and tefillin, since both are considered adornments. Most of the morning is ocupied by the reading of Kinot, elegies marking the various tragedies that befell our people.
Work is permitted on Tisha B’Av, but discouraged. On this day, one’s focus should be on mourning and repentance. If one must work, it is preferable to begin after midday. It is customary to give extra charity on Tisha B’Av, as on every fast day.
After midday, it is permissible to sit on chairs, and tallit and tefillin are worn during the afternoon prayer. In the synagogue, the ark’s curtain is restored to its place before the afternoon prayers.
The fast begins at sunset of the 8th of Av 8:10 PM on 7/29 and concludes at nightfall 8:45 PM on the following night on 7/30.
During this time, we do not Eat or drink, wear leather footwear, bathe or wash ourselves (washing only until the knuckle when mandated by halachah)
NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic all washing for sanitary purposes (rather than ritual) should be done fully and normally with soap for 20 seconds as recommended by the CDC
Also if you have any questions about fasting due to difficulty please contact Rabbi Yaffe
or apply ointments or creams, engage in marital relations or any form of intimacy
We also don’t sit on a normal-height chair until chatzot (the time when the sun has reached its apex)
study Torah (except for the “sad” parts that deal with the destruction of the Temples, etc.)
send gifts, or even greet one another (you may respond to greetings)
engage in outings, trips or similar pleasurable activities, wear fine, festive clothing
On Tisha B’Av evening services are held in synagogue, where the ark has been stripped of its decorative curtain and the lights dimmed. Evening prayers are followed by the chanting of Eichah (Lamentations).
Work is permitted on Tisha B’Av, but discouraged. On this day, one’s focus should be on mourning and repentance. If one must work, it is preferable to begin after midday. It is customary to give extra charity on Tisha B’Av, as on every fast day. After midday, it is permissible to sit on chairs, and tallit and tefillin are worn during the afternoon prayer. In the synagogue, the ark’s curtain is restored to its place before the afternoon prayers.
After the Fast When night falls, before breaking the fast, one should perform netilat yadayim (hand-washing), this time covering the entire hand with water, but without reciting the blessing. It is also customary to perform Kiddush Levanah at this point, celebrating the rebirth of the moon, and our hoped-for national rebirth.
The Temple was set ablaze on the afternoon of the 9th of Av, and it burned through the 10th. Therefore, the restrictions of the Nine Days (such as not eating meat, swimming or laundering clothing) extend until midday of the 10th of Av. This year haircuts, bathing and laundering are all permitted on the 10th of Av (7/31) Before Mid-day (but not eating meat and drinking wine until mid-day) because it is Friday and we need to prepare for Shabbat
4) Thoughts on Tisha Be'AV: A Debt of Truth
