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Lessons of the Past: Now is the turn for love Israel today

2020-07-29T21:28:20.777Z


| In the countryIt has been 1,950 years since the people of Israel mourned the destruction of the Temple, and it seems that T. Bab and the mistakes of the past are more relevant today than ever. • About a thousand people were allowed to pray last night at the Western Wall Praying at the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av // Photo: Tzachi Miriam Under the corona virus' guidelines, Tisha B'Av prayers were held last nigh...


It has been 1,950 years since the people of Israel mourned the destruction of the Temple, and it seems that T. Bab and the mistakes of the past are more relevant today than ever. • About a thousand people were allowed to pray last night at the Western Wall

  • Praying at the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av // Photo: Tzachi Miriam

Under the corona virus' guidelines, Tisha B'Av prayers were held last night throughout the country, most of them in makeshift courtyards or houses.

Also, the "Israel Today" website broadcast the prayer and reading of the Megillah, which deals with the destruction of the Second Temple for the benefit of worshipers who cannot reach the minyanim.

The main prayer took place, as every year, at the Western Wall, which is the last remnant left of the Second Temple - which led to many seeking to reach the site.

In contrast to a normal year, in which tens of thousands of people participate in prayers at the Western Wall, this year the entry was limited to only one thousand participants.



Prayers at the Western Wall will continue today under the restrictions of the Corona. Due to the heavy heat, Magen David Adom ambulances will be on site. At the end of the fast, packaged food and food will be provided at the Western Wall for fasting.

During the Tisha B'Av fast, five prohibitions apply - eating and drinking, washing, lubricating, locking the sandal and the bed utensil, and it lasts until the stars come out. Due to the corona plague, rabbis ruled that it was obligatory to wash hands as usual. Also, the rabbis ordered, due to the heavy heat, to shorten the recitation of the lamentations, and say most of them in the houses.

Corona patients do not have to fast. Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef even clarified that "a person who has the symptoms of the virus in the middle of a fast, such as high fever, cough, loss of sense of taste and smell, is liable to be exempted from fasting on Tisha B'Av."



Regarding people who engage in emergency medicine as well as those who perform corona tests on patients, Rabbi Yosef added that "if by answering they refrain from doing their job, especially if they have to wear special clothes for this in the heat of the day, they should be made easier to eat and drink."

Meanwhile, the Tisha B'Av night march around the Old City walls was held last night when for the first time only 50 people marched because of the corona restrictions.

"We all hope and believe that next year we will march in our masses proudly and without restrictions," said the organizers of the march, led by the "Women in Green" movement, Yehudit Katzover and Nadia Matar.

"The preservation of the tradition of the march is extremely important for the years to come. This march illustrates the sovereignty of Israel in all parts of Jerusalem, east and west, and expresses the expectation and longing of the people of Israel to return to the place of the Temple."

Source: israelhayom

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