Tishah B’Av is a day when we mourn the range of tragedies that have marked Jewish history, beginning with the destruction of both Batei Mikdash. Many of these calamities from throughout the ages are represented in the book of Tishah B’Av kinot that we read in our shuls. While we are generally extremely cautious about […]
There have been countless artistic representations of the Beit Hamikdash in the nearly 2,000 years since its destruction.
Remembering the Holocaust
In Morocco we didn’t eat meat the entire Nine Days [similar to the Ashkenazic minhag and unlike other Sephardim], although there were three different customs regarding meat consumption on Shabbat, depending on one’s family tradition and the city in which one lived.