HOLIDAYS Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit presents SUMMER SUNDOWNERS In the Discovery Room A Chance for Parents & Preschoolers to Have A Night on the Town Come spend time with your Preschooler Tuesday Evenings 6:30.7:30 p.m. July 23, July 30 & August 6 The evening will include crafts, stories, fun and games, along with time to explore the Discovery Room. You can share these activities with your children and have a chance to chat with other adults as well. DisGovgry Room, A Jewish Experience Yes! Sign us up for Summer Sundowners Club! One Session — $5.00 per family August 6 July 30 ❑ July 23 ❑ All three sessions — $12.00 per family ❑ ❑ Join us for Children's Fairytale Theatre ❑ July 23 — Snow White and Seven Dwarfs ❑ August 6 — Jack and the Beanstalk Fee: $3.50 each Dinner option: 6.6:30 p.m. $3 per adult $1.50 per child August 6 ❑ July 30 ❑ July 23 ❑ Payable to J.C.C. Total Enclosed Family Name Mother's Name Father's Name Age Child Age Child Address Zip City Phone Return this slip with check payable to: .+ 0.1GIZEMR Jewish Community Center Child Development Center 6600 W. Maple, W. Bloomfield, MI 48322 'Ping 1,0.10 FansIlles Gi °4 Cr.. F...., 5.0.r 30 - 75% OFF* on All Summer Sportswear & Short-Sleeved Dress Shirts • X Men's furnishings and accessories 19011 West Ten Mile Road Southfield, Michigan 48075 (Between Southfield & Evergreen) (313) 352-1080 *OFF RETAIL PRICE EXPIRES JULY 31, 1991 Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Thursday 9:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Everything always 20% - 35% off retail PARKING AND ENTRANCE IN REAR LOOK FOR OUR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS THIS FALL! 40 FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1991 Tisha B'Av Recalls Temple's Destruction A tale for the holiday running from sundown Saturday to sundown Sunday. OZZIE NOGG Special to The Jewish. News O nce, long ago, the Ark with the Ten Com- mandments rested at Shiloh. King David brought the Ark to Jerusalem, his city, where he longed to build a proper house for it. But God did not approve. "You are a man of bloodshed and war," God said to David. "You shall not build a house for my name." So it was that David's son, King Solomon, came to build the House of the Lord. Tens of thousands of men worked for many years to build the Temple. It was built from blocks of the choicest stone, and glowed with copper, silver, brass and gold. In the center of the Temple — its heart — was a small, plain room. This was the sacred Holy of Holies in which the Priests placed the Ark with the Ten Com- mandments. The elders, the Princes of the Tribes and all the people assembled for the Temple's dedication. Solomon praised God and asked Him to be merciful to the people Israel and to hear their prayers and forgive their sins. God accepted the Temple but warned, "if you turn away from Me, you and the Tem- ple will be cast out of My sight." So the people brought offerings and celebrated their festivals at the Temple. Solomon died and his kingdom was divided. Am- bitious kings murdered their rivals. Priests neglected their duties and the people turned to the adulterous ways of Baal. The Prophets warned that punishment would come from God, but the people did not listen. Then Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylonia, thundered into Jerusalem. He took everything he could carry from the Temple and, on the 9th of Av, his soldiers burned the Temple to the ground and the tablets with the Ten Commandments disappeared. The people understood that because of Ozzie Nogg is a writer in Omaha, Neb. their ways, the First Temple was destroyed. The Jews were carried off by the Babylonians into ex- ile. Eventually, Babylonia fell to Cyrus, King of Persia, who was called The Anointed Shepherd of the God of Israel. He freed the people, who returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. The Temple they built was small and humble, and in it the people heard Ezra read the Torah. They vowed, once From this place in our hearts we can follow God's commandments and do what He has asked. again, to follow God's Law, and brought offerings and celebrated their festivals at the Temple. Years passed. Antiochus and his troops came and desecrated the Temple but the brave Maccabees cleans- ed the holy place and rededicated it to the One God. Then, in time, Herod became King of Judea. To win the favor of the people, he made the Temple larger and even more significant than Solomon's with mas- sive marble pillars and many courtyards. In the center of the Temple was the Holy of Holies but now it was an empty room. The people brought offerings to the altar and celebrated their festivals there. Presently, the Romans ruled the land and the Jews rose in revolt. They fought the enemy without but there was much dissension and disunity within. Factions feuded. Zealots battled moderates. The sages saw the discord and intolerance and warned that punish- ment would come from God. Weakened by internal strife, the people could resist no longer. The armies of Titus charged into Jerusalem. On the 9th of Av they burned the Temple to the ground. The Jews understood that because of their hatred toward one an- other, the Second Temple was destroyed. The people wept and mourned. They sat on the ground wailing lamenta- tions in remembrance of the Temple and of Jerusalem plowed under like a field. And they asked the rabbis, "What shall we do, now that the Temple is no more? Where shall we bring our offerings to God?" And Rabbi Yochanan the son of Zakkai replied, "Now you must bring God acts of lov- ing kindness, for He desires mercy and not sacrifice." Yes, the house built for God is gone. But be comforted, for the Lord of Israel lives every- where and His spirit rests in everyone. Each of us, in truth, is a living Temple. In our centers, in our very hearts, is a sacred place. And that place is not empty for God's words are in it. From this place in our hearts we can follow God's commandments and do what He has asked. We can re- member Him. We can walk in His ways. We can bring our offerings of love and kindness and justice to Him and to everything that lives on earth. ❑ ""'""mmi NEWS im•"" Oil Find Played Down Tel Aviv (JTA) — Oil pro- spectors are playing down the importance of last week's oil strike at a drilling site in the Heletz oil field, near Ashdod. Oil gushed at 5,118 feet below ground. But the Nafta Oil Prospecting Co., which operates the field, is reacting cautiously. According to its director general, Yossi Levy, the drilling is continuing. If oil is found at three or four different strata targeted by the company to a depth of 5,445 feet, the new well, known as Kochav 32, could yield a total of 350,000 barrels, Mr. Levy said. He stressed that Kochav 32 is not a new oil source but a further exploration within the wider Heletz field, which consists of several small, isolated subterranean pools. Oil was first found there in 1955. The field has since yielded 17 million barrels.