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Tisha B'Av: Dust and Ashes, A Community Lamentation

Saturday, August 2, 2025
Pacific Palisades, CA

Tisha B’Av: Dust and Ashes
A Community Lamentation

A healing service and perambulation through Pacific Palisades fire and ash.

What is lost. What is found.
Belong.

Warren Flesch
Rabbi Lori Shapiro
Jeremiah the Prophet
Poetry. Song. Meditation.

6:30pm Gather
Meet at Via De La Paz and Antioch Street

Support $18
Free for Open Temple Co-Creators

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The Temple Lost
The Jews Expelled
The Pogrom Destroyed
The Childhood Wounded
The Pain Carried
The Alchemy Transforming
The Klippah Molting
Release Begins.

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2025 :
Witness
Temple Lost
Jews Expelled
Community Scattered
Carried Pain
Klippah Molting
Purification
Grief
Renewal

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“Sing unto God a new song.”
-Psalm 96

If God is already tired, as suggests the Psalm, of hearing the old song, all the more so will ordinary mortals be.
-Alcalay (20th c. Jewish lexicographer)

The Open Temple.
Sing a new Song.