Our summer season Bet Hamedrash programme continues this Shabbat with Rabbi Shlomo Odze. 

Starting one hour before Mincha on Shabbat, this week at 7.15pm.

Monday 4 August

Where possible, on the eve of Tisha B'Av one should eat a full meal prior to the Mincha service but have the traditional Seuda Hamafseket (consisting of bread and a hard-boiled egg customarily dipped in ashes) after Mincha. Therefore Mincha will take place at 8.00pm and bread and hard-boiled eggs will be available afterwards. Non-leather shoes are worn during the Fast.

8:00pm: Mincha

8.20pm: Seuda Hamafseket

8.43pm: Fast begins

8.45pm: Ma’ariv and Reading of Eicha (Lamentations)

Tuesday 5 August

7.00am: Shacharit followed by a selection of Kinot

5.00pm: 'Mourning for Jerusalem in 2014'.

Live Kinot webcast from Yeshiva University with Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, Senior Scholar of Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future.

This will include insights and discussion giving meaning and relevance to the elegies traditionally recited on Tisha B'Av to mourn the destruction of the Second Temple and other tragedies in Jewish history including the Crusades and the Holocaust.

6.00pm: WWI Film

This Tisha B’Av marks 100 years since the beginning of World War 1.We will be screening a film and will have an opportunity to gain insight into the sermons of Chief Rabbi Dr. J. H. Hertz which he delivered during that period of history.

7.15pm: Mincha with Tallit and Tefillin. Followed by Ma’ariv.

9.31pm: Fast Ends. (Meat and wine should only be consumed from 1.07pm on Wednesday 6 August).

Together with communities across the UK, our Shul will be actively participating in the international Shabbat Project which was so successfully pioneered in South Africa. It will take place around the world on 24/25 October 2014. To feel the energy of this unique project please take a moment to watch an extremely informative and gripping movie clip by clicking HERE. 

To get this special Shabbat off to a sensational start in our own South Hampstead Synagogue community, we are launching an ‘open your home for Friday night dinner’ campaign. We are looking for dinner hosts who will open their homes on Friday night 24 October and invite other members of our Shul who live in neighbouring streets. Hosts will open their homes to all fellow South Hampstead members regardless of whether these neighbours are friends or not yet friends. We hope that there will be clusters of homes across the breadth of our Shul membership which will all celebrate Shabbat together. If you would like to be a host for this important occasion please email Cara Blitz at cblitz@btinternet.com.

Other exciting events to be announced shortly will be held at the Shul during the day of Shabbat the 25 October.

There will also be a London wide challah bake on Thursday evening the 23 October which will take place at Brent Cross Shopping centre. Women and girls from South Hampstead Synagogue will have the opportunity to attend as a group.

Further details to follow.

Please diarise the date – Shabbat UK…what will you do?