Temple B'nai B'rith of Wilkes-Barre, PA joyfully embraces Judaism as a way of life through prayer, music, social action, celebrating Jewish holidays, lifelong learning, and life cycle events. Through these activities, we seek to promote spiritual growth, moral values, and the social welfare of our community.
Adult Ed
As we approach the High Holidays, check out these interesting mini-courses hosted by Judaism Unbound.
These three-week mini-courses are insightful, creative, provocative, and open to anyone. Extraordinary thought leaders teach them. This year, classes are on: the month of Elul, Kol Nidre, and the Akedah, Hasidism, and Neo-Hasidism. Please take a look by clicking on this link:
Tisha b'Av
Tisha b’Av
On Monday evening, August 12, we begin the solemn remembrance of Tisha b’Av, the Ninth day of the Month of Av in the Jewish calendar.
This day marks the great disasters that have befallen the Jewish people: the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other catastrophes. It is a sad day, often a fast day, with prayers of lament, including chanting the Book of Lamentations known as Eicha.
As a people of history, we know persecution too well. AntiSemitism has become more out in the open and widespread. The current war has complicated our relationship with the world even further. There is even speculation that Iran will launch its reprisal attack on this date as a cruel, ironic twist to the ongoing hostilities.
It is a time to acknowledge and share in the sorrow and the martyrdom of so many of our brothers and sisters whose only crime was to be Jewish.
As we reflect on this somber moment, we also take heart in knowing that Am Yisrael Chai, The People of Israel, lives through it all.
You can listen to the chanting of Eicha with its haunting melody here:
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