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The film is a stirring documentary, featuring Holocaust survivors living in the GTA recounting how their faith and trust in G‑d persevered despite living in a brutal and horrifying concentration camp.
The study session to follow will be an interactive learning experience where participants get a chance to discuss how the Holocaust speaks to us today, why bad things happen to good people and how a person can have faith in G‑d despite living in the most horrific conditions.
Tisha B'Av Schedule at Chabad Jewish Center of Longmont:
Join us for our an evening of the traditional reading of Eicha-Lamentations and our Tisha B'Av program
Monday evening, August 4th, Tisha B'Av eve
Maariv prayer and Eicah: 8:30 pm
Film and class 9:00 pm
Fast Begins Monday August 4th: ---- 8:07 pm
Fast Ends Tuesday August 5th: ---- 8:45 pm
RSVP 303 678-7595 or email [email protected]
Tisha B'Av: August 4-5, 2014
What is Tisha B'av
The saddest day on the Jewish calendar is the Ninth of Av, "Tisha b'Av," the date on which both our Holy Temples were destroyed, and exile, persecution and spiritual darkness began.
Tisha b'Av starts at sundown of the eighth of Av and lasts till the following nightfall. During this time-period we fast, eschew pleasurable activities and amenities, and lament the destruction of the Holy Temple and our nation’s exile.
It is a tradition, however, that Tisha b'Av is also the birthday of our Redeemer. This symbolizes the idea that from the ashes of the destroyed temple will rise an incomparably magnificent edifice; exile will give birth to redemption. Thus Tisha B’Av is also a day of anticipation and hope, for "One who mourns Jerusalem will merit seeing her happiness."