Tisha B’Av is meant to be the saddest day of the Jewish
calendar. It is a day when we commemorate the hardships that Jews have
encountered throughout our history. At machaneh, this Sunday night, we observed Tisha B’Av at an evening program. The program started with short plays, put together by the madrichim, that displayed different times in hisotry where Jews have been persecuted or exiled. We created tableus of
the Warsaw Ghetto, the Spanish Inquisition, the destruction of the 1st
temple, the Bar Kochba Rebellion, and the Toulouse shooting that happened in
March this past year. After talking about this through the lens of destruction,
we had a museum about the creation of the State of Israel and the agency that
the Jews gained in the past hundred years. Chanichim walked through the museum and
then we had a conversation about having been oppressed and what
responsibility we carry becuase of it. Lastly, all the chanichim went to the
pool where we had a ceremony with a short moment of silence and sang the Hatikvah. Tisha B’Av at machaneh was about acknowledging our past in order to
work for a better future.
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