Or
Emet - A Congregation for Jewish Living,
located in Valencia, California in the Santa Clarita Valley is a dynamic
synagogue which invites all participants to share in a wide variety of
Judaic experiences. A warm and welcoming place to gather, worship
and study, Or Emet is a temple which emphasizes the practice of Jewish
values and community in programs for all ages. People from conservative
synagogues or reform temples feel at home with the familiarity of our
melodies and services.
Contact us to find out more about our many programs and services including:
Shabbat, havdallah, Holiday events, Bar Mitzvah, Hebrew School and Adult
Education.
On Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the
Hebrew month of Av, Jews fast and
mourn the destruction of the First
and Second Temples, and other tragedies
of Jewish history associated with
this date.
The
Jewish expulsion from Spain occurred
on this date in 1492, as did the deportation
of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to
the Treblinka concentration camp and
the 1994 Hizbollah terrorist bombing
of the AMIA Jewish Community Center
in Argentina where 86 people died.
Also, Jews were expelled from England
on this date in 1290, the First Crusade
started on this date in 1095, resulting
in the death of thousands of Jews,
and the Bar Kochba rebellion was crushed
on this date in the year 132. Yet,
the worst thing to happen on Tisha
B'Av was the destruction of the two
Holy Temples.
King Solomon built the First Temple
in Jerusalem (currently, the Muslim
Dome of the Rock sits above the spot).
In 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar and the
Babylonians destroyed the First Temple.
Over 100,000 Jews were killed and
the rest were exiled to remote locations
in Babylon and Persia. In 70 CE, Titus
and the Romans destroyed the Second
Temple (pictured in a model on far
left) that Herod built. Over two and
a half million Jews died from execution,
battles, famine and disease. Another
million Jews were exiled to part of
the Roman empire. After the fall of
the Second Temple, most Jews remained
in the Diaspora until the beginning
of the modern Zionist movement. All
that is left of the Holy Temple is
one side of the exterior wall that
surrounded the Temple. This wall is
Judaism's holiest site and is known
as the Western, or Wailing, Wall (seen
in the lower right side of the picture
to the left, with the Dome of the
Rock in the background).
Hebrew
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