Cantor David Montefiore sings Max Helfman’s ‘Shema Koleinu’ Charlotte Vineburg, organist 

Three Corinthian columns from the Temple of Apollo Sosianus,
circa 34 BCE. Rome, Italy with the sun shining on the dome of the
Great Synagogue of Rome
Cantor David Montefiore sings Max Helfman’s ‘Shema Koleinu’
Charlotte Vineburg is at the organ
Now that Tisha B’Av has past into the sunset of the West we can turn our thoughts to Jerusalem in the East - and listen to the strains of ‘Shema Koleinu’ as we beseech the Almighty to forgive our sins and pray for all Jews and Humankind.
Selichot are recited on Leil Selichot, commencing Saturday Evening, September 9th, before Erev Rosh Hashanah, which falls on the 15th of September until Yom Kippur. One can see from the photo above that we, the Jewish People are here, Anachnu Po, and the Roman Empire is but a monument of
of a civilization that has passed into the fog of history.