Tisha B’Av begins at sundown

An important fast day commemoratingthe destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 CE. It isthe culmination of the Three Weeks, an annual mourning period that falls in thesummer. Jews mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple and their launch into astill-ongoing exile.

Tisha B’Av, or 9th of Av, is thedate the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC by the Babylonian kingNebuchadnezzar and the Second Temple by the Roman emperor Titus in 70 AD.

This is the saddest day of theJewish calendar, the date that many other tragedies befell the Jewish people,including the expulsion of Jews from England, France, and Spain over a periodof roughly 200 years.

Your foes roared in the place whereyou met with us;

   they set up their standards as signs.

They behaved like men wielding axes

   to cut through a thicket of trees.

They smashed all the carved paneling

   with their axes and hatchets.

 They burned your sanctuary to the ground;

   they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.

They said in their hearts, “We willcrush them completely!”

    They burned every place where God wasworshiped in the land.

~Psalm 74:4-8

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