The 9 day of Av. An infamous day in Jewish history. Remember Av= (July or August) , like Elul= (August or September), these are both month's on the Jewish calander. Tisha B'Av is a day of fasting and mourning to remembers many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people
According to Rabbinic tradition. The sin of the Twelve Spies produced the annual fast day of Tisha B'Av the on "9th day of Av". When the Israelites accepted the false report, they wept over the false belief that God was setting them up for defeat. The night that the people cried was the "ninth day of Av", which became a day of weeping and misfortune for all time.
It commemorates the destruction of the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC "DESTROYED on "9th day of Av". And Second Temple by the Romans in 69 AD "DESTROYED on 9th day of Av". The "9th day of Av" commemorates a list of catastrophes so severe it's clearly a day specially cursed by God.
In 1313 BC. The Israelites are in the desert, recently having experienced the miraculous Exodus, and are now poised to enter the Promised Land. They dispatch a reconnaissance mission to assist in formulating a prudent battle strategy. Twelve spies, one from each Tribe. They return on the eighth day of Av and report that the land is unconquerable. That night, "the day 9th of Av", the people cry. They insist that they'd rather go back to Egypt than be slaughtered by the Canaanites. God is highly displeased by this public demonstration of distrust in His power, and consequently that generation of Israelites never enters the Holy Land. Only their children have that privilege, after wandering in the desert for another 38 years. Total 40 years, one yr for ea day they spied.
When the Jews rebelled against Roman rule, they believed that their leader, Simon bar Kochba, would fulfill their messianic longings. But their hopes were cruelly dashed in 133 AD as over 100,000 Jewish rebels were brutally butchered in the final battle at Betar. Instituted by the rabbis of 2nd-century Palestine. The date of the massacre? Tisha the "9th day of Av"! 100,000 massacred!
One year after their conquest of Betar, the Romans plowed over the Temple Mount, their nation's holiest site. On Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
The Jews were expelled from England in 1290 AD, you guessed it, on Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
In 1492, the Golden Age of Spain came to a close when Queen Isabella and her husband Ferdinand ordered that the Jews be banished from the land. The edict of expulsion was signed on March 31, 1492, and the Jews were given exactly four months to put their affairs in order and leave the country. The Hebrew date on which no Jew was allowed any longer to remain in the land where he had enjoyed welcome and prosperity? Duh, Yep! Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
World War II and the Holocaust, historians conclude, was actually the long drawn-out conclusion of World War I that began in 1914. And amazingly enough, Germany declared war on Russia, effectively catapulting the First World War into motion, on Tisha "9th day of Av"!
On the July 23, 1942, began the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, en route to Treblinka. On Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza expulsion plan", or Hitnatkut. Peace for land, how's that worked out? Again, Tisha "9th day of Av"!
According to Rabbinic tradition. The sin of the Twelve Spies produced the annual fast day of Tisha B'Av the on "9th day of Av". When the Israelites accepted the false report, they wept over the false belief that God was setting them up for defeat. The night that the people cried was the "ninth day of Av", which became a day of weeping and misfortune for all time.
It commemorates the destruction of the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 BC "DESTROYED on "9th day of Av". And Second Temple by the Romans in 69 AD "DESTROYED on 9th day of Av". The "9th day of Av" commemorates a list of catastrophes so severe it's clearly a day specially cursed by God.
In 1313 BC. The Israelites are in the desert, recently having experienced the miraculous Exodus, and are now poised to enter the Promised Land. They dispatch a reconnaissance mission to assist in formulating a prudent battle strategy. Twelve spies, one from each Tribe. They return on the eighth day of Av and report that the land is unconquerable. That night, "the day 9th of Av", the people cry. They insist that they'd rather go back to Egypt than be slaughtered by the Canaanites. God is highly displeased by this public demonstration of distrust in His power, and consequently that generation of Israelites never enters the Holy Land. Only their children have that privilege, after wandering in the desert for another 38 years. Total 40 years, one yr for ea day they spied.
When the Jews rebelled against Roman rule, they believed that their leader, Simon bar Kochba, would fulfill their messianic longings. But their hopes were cruelly dashed in 133 AD as over 100,000 Jewish rebels were brutally butchered in the final battle at Betar. Instituted by the rabbis of 2nd-century Palestine. The date of the massacre? Tisha the "9th day of Av"! 100,000 massacred!
One year after their conquest of Betar, the Romans plowed over the Temple Mount, their nation's holiest site. On Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
The Jews were expelled from England in 1290 AD, you guessed it, on Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
In 1492, the Golden Age of Spain came to a close when Queen Isabella and her husband Ferdinand ordered that the Jews be banished from the land. The edict of expulsion was signed on March 31, 1492, and the Jews were given exactly four months to put their affairs in order and leave the country. The Hebrew date on which no Jew was allowed any longer to remain in the land where he had enjoyed welcome and prosperity? Duh, Yep! Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
World War II and the Holocaust, historians conclude, was actually the long drawn-out conclusion of World War I that began in 1914. And amazingly enough, Germany declared war on Russia, effectively catapulting the First World War into motion, on Tisha "9th day of Av"!
On the July 23, 1942, began the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, en route to Treblinka. On Tisha "the 9th day of Av".
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza expulsion plan", or Hitnatkut. Peace for land, how's that worked out? Again, Tisha "9th day of Av"!