Tisha B’Av is a holiday that calls us to consider the danger of Jewish disunity, unacknowledged pain, and baseless hatred. It’s also a holiday to help channel our focus toward the new year and resetting ourselves on a path of t’shuva (healing).
 

This Tisha B'Av, we invite you to be an author of the Jewish Tradition and claim your spot as a sacred healer. Experienced and novice poets, fans of poetry, bring your original or favorite poems that speak to the themes of Tisha B'Av - destruction, heartbreak, shame, hope, reconstruction, healing, and resilience.  

In partnership with Rav Jonathan at Base Andersonville, we’ll have a pre-fast meal together at 7:00 PM! Starting at 8:00 PM, we’ll share and discuss our poetry. At 8:49 PM, we’ll recite Havdalah and read Eicha (the book of Lamentations, traditionally read on Tisha B'Av) together. We plan to have the formal reading of Eicha last under an hour.