Tisha B'Av

Shalom,

Just a reminder that Tisha B'Av will begin on Wednesday night and continue until sundown Thursday.  It is a fast day that commemorates the destruction of both Temples and a number of tragedies.

While it is a day of mourning, the Temple Institue will begin building the sacrificial altar on Thursday, Tisha B’av.  The construction of the altar will begin Thursday in Mitzpe Yericho (east of Jerusalem) at 5:30 p.m. Accordiing to the Temple Institute workers have already gathered around 10 cubic meters of rocks weighing several tons already.  While this altar is a minimum sized altar it will still be approximately 4 meters tall, 6 meters long, and 6 meters wide.

It will be interesting to see if this does come to fruition.