Tisha B'Av

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A commemoration of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Tisha B'Av precedes the end of the three weeks between dire straits. This day is regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It is categorized as a day destined for tragedy.<ref name="BarclayJaeger2003">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Ellis2005">Template:Cite book</ref> Tisha B'Av falls in July or August in the Gregorian calendar.

Observances of the day include five prohibitions, most notable of which is a 25-hour fast. The Book of Lamentations, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem, is read in synagogue, followed by the recitation of kinnot, liturgical dirges that lament the loss of the Temples and Jerusalem. As the day has become associated with remembrance of other major calamities which have befallen the Jewish people, some kinnot also recall events such as the murder of the Ten Martyrs by the Romans; expulsions from England, Spain, and elsewhere; massacres of numerous medieval Jewish communities by Crusaders; the Holocaust;<ref name=":0" /> and the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.<ref name="Hajdenbigger-A000">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name = Harkovigger-A000>Template:Cite news</ref>

History

Five calamities

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Excavated stones from the Western Wall of the Temple Mount (Jerusalem, Israel), knocked onto the street below by Roman battering rams in 70 CE

According to the Mishnah (Taanit 4:6), five specific events occurred on the ninth of Av that warrant fasting:

1. The Twelve Spies sent by Moses to observe the land of Canaan returned from their mission. Only two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, brought a positive report, while the others spoke disparagingly about the land. The majority report caused the Children of Israel to cry, panic and despair of ever entering the "Promised Land". For this, they were punished by God that their generation would not enter the land.<ref>See Template:Bibleverse; Template:Bibleverse.</ref> The midrash quotes God as saying about this event, "You cried before me pointlessly, I will fix for you [this day as a day of] crying for the generations",<ref>Numbers Rabbah 16:20</ref> alluding to the future misfortunes which occurred on the same date.
2. The First Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE, and the population of the Kingdom of Judah was sent into the Babylonian exile.<ref name="jewishencyc">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> According to the Bible, the First Temple's destruction began on the 7th of Av (2 Kings 25:8) and continued until the 10th (Jeremiah 52:12). According to the Talmud,<ref>Ta'anit 29a</ref> the actual destruction of the Temple began on the Ninth of Av, and it continued to burn throughout the Tenth of Av.
3. The Second Temple, built by Zerubbabel and renovated by Herod the Great, was destroyed by the Romans on 9 Av 70 CE,Template:Efn scattering the people of Judea and commencing the Jewish exile from the Holy Land.<ref name="jewishencyc"/>
4. The Romans subsequently crushed Bar Kokhba's revolt and destroyed the city of Betar, killing over 500,000 Jewish civilians (approximately 580,000) on 9 Av 135 CE.<ref name="Ohr">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1. Following the Bar Kokhba revolt, Roman commander Quintus Tineius Rufus plowed the site of the Temple in Jerusalem and the surrounding area.<ref name="Barclay" />

Other calamities

Over time, Tisha B'Av has come to be a Jewish day of mourning, not only for these events, but also for later tragedies that occurred on or near the 9th of Av. References to some of these events appear in liturgy composed for Tisha B'Av (see below). Note that dates prior to 1582 are in the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar.

• The First Crusade officially commenced on 15 August 1096 (Av 24, AM 4856), killing 10,000 Jews in its first month and destroying Jewish communities in France and the Rhineland.<ref name="Ohr"/><ref name="Erbstösser">Template:Cite book</ref>
• The Jews were expelled from England on 18 July 1290 (Av 9, AM 5050).<ref name="Ohr" />
• The Jews were expelled from France on 22 July 1306 (Av 10, AM 5066).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• The Jews were expelled from Spain on 31 July 1492 (Av 7, AM 5252).<ref name="Barclay">Template:Cite book. Note that 31 July is the Julian calendar date; corrected for the Gregorian calendar it would be 10 August.</ref>
• Germany entered World War I on 1–2 August 1914 (Av 9–10, AM 5674), which caused massive upheaval in European Jewry and whose aftermath led to World War II and the Holocaust.<ref name="Ohr" />
• On 2 August 1941 (Av 9, AM 5701), SS commander Heinrich Himmler formally received approval from the Nazi Party for "The Final Solution," which marked the beginning of the Holocaust during which almost one third of the world's Jewish population was murdered.<ref name="TheUs">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• On 23 July 1942 (Av 9, AM 5702), the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka began.<ref name="TheUs" />
• The AMIA bombing on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killed 85 and injured 300 on 18 July 1994 (10 Av, AM 5754).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

While the Holocaust spanned a number of years, religious communities use Tisha B'Av to mourn its 6,000,000 Jewish victims, either in addition to or instead of the secular Holocaust Memorial Days such as Yom HaShoah. On Tisha B'Av, communities that otherwise do not modify the traditional prayer liturgy have added the recitation of special kinnot related to the Holocaust.<ref name=":0" />

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Tisha b'Av prayers (1740)

Similarly, within Religious Zionist communities, the 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza is mourned on Tisha B'Av as well, a practice supported by Religious Zionist rabbis like Yaakov Ariel and Dov Lior.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Kinnot have been composed about the withdrawal,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the connection to Tisha b'Av was emphasized in 10-year anniversary commemorations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although the disengagement operation had been delayed specifically to avoid coinciding with The Three Weeks and Tisha b'Av, the timing lent itself to symbolic interpretation both by Religious Zionists and by wider Jewish culture.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, even within Religious Zionism, Chaim Navon holds that the disengagement did not rise to the level of a calamity<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Shlomo Aviner has written that mourning the disengagement on Tisha b'Av is forbidden because it incites political division.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Yona Metzger, then Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, ruled in 2006 that the disengagement was a tragedy but mourning rituals should not be integrated into Tisha b'Av,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while Howard Jachter permits it in narrow fashion.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Kinnot regarding the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel have also been added to the Tisha b'Av liturgy.<ref name="Hajdenbigger-A000"></ref><ref name="Harkovigger-A000"></ref>

Related observances

In connection with the fall of Jerusalem, three other fast-days were established at the same time as the Ninth Day of Av: these were the Tenth of Tevet, when the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians began; the Seventeenth of Tammuz, when the first breach was made in the wall by the Romans; and the Third of Tishrei, known as the Fast of Gedaliah, the day when Gedaliah was assassinated in the time of the Babylonians following the destruction of the First Temple.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The three weeks leading up to Tisha B'Av are known as The Three Weeks, while the nine days leading up to Tisha B'Av are known as The Nine Days.<ref name=":0" />

Laws and customs

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Tisha b'Av (1657 woodcut)

Tisha B'Av falls in July or August in the Gregorian calendar. When Tisha B'Av falls on Shabbat (the Sabbath), it then is Template:Transliteration ("delayed" in Hebrew). Thus the observance of Tisha B'Av can take place on the following day (that is, Sunday). This last occurred in 2022, and will next occur in 2029. No mourning can intrude upon the Sabbath. Normally Sabbath eating and drinking ends just before sunset Saturday evening, rather than nightfall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

This fast lasts just over 25 hours, beginning at sunset on the preceding evening, lasting until nightfall the next day. Pleasurable activities are forbidden.<ref name="ohr.edu">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Main prohibitions

Tisha B'Av bears a stringent nature alike that of Yom Kippur. The length of a fast that lasts over 25 hours, beginning before sunset on the eve of Tisha B'Av and ends at nightfall the following day, Tisha B'Av mandates the following five prohibitions:<ref>Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 650:2</ref>

1. No eating or drinking;
2. No washing or bathing;
3. No application of creams or oils;
4. No wearing of (leather) shoes;
5. No marital (sexual) relations.

These restrictions are waived in the case of health issues. A competent posek, a rabbi who decides Jewish Law, must be consulted. Those who are ill will be allowed to eat and drink. On other fast days, almost any medical condition can justify breaking the fast; in practice, consultation with a rabbi is best.<ref name="ohr.edu" /> Ritual hand washing up to the knuckles is permitted. Washing to cleanse dirt or mud from one's body is also permitted.<ref name="ohr.edu" />

Additional customs

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Reading kinnot at the Western Wall

Torah study is forbidden on Tisha B'Av (as it is considered an enjoyable activity), except for the study of distressing texts such as the Book of Lamentations, the Book of Job, portions of Jeremiah and chapters of the Talmud that discuss the laws of mourning and those that discuss the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="donin">Template:Cite book</ref>

In synagogue, prior to the commencement of the evening services, the parochet, which normally covers and adorns the Torah ark, is removed or drawn aside until the Mincha prayer service.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do not hang a curtain in front of the ark during the rest of the year, place a black curtain over the ark for tisha b'av.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

According to Moses Isserles, it is customary to sit on low stools or on the floor, as is done during shiva (the first week of mourning), from the meal immediately before the fast (the seudah hamafseket) until midday (chatzot hayom) of the fast itself. It is customary to eat a hard-boiled egg dipped in ashes and a piece of bread dipped into ashes during this pre-fast meal. The Beit Yosef rules that the custom to sit low to the ground extends past mid-day until one prays Mincha (the afternoon prayer).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The custom is to dim the lighting and to read the kinnot by candlelight. Some sleep on the floor or modify their normal sleeping routine, for instance, by sleeping without a pillow (or with one fewer pillow than usual). People refrain from greeting each other or sending gifts on this day. Old siddurim and Torah scrolls are often buried on this day.<ref name="ohr.edu" />

The custom is to not put on tefillin nor tallit for Shacharit services. Men wear only the tallit katan without a blessing. At mincha services, tzitzit and tefilin are worn, with proper blessings before donning them.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

End of fast

Although the fast ends at nightfall, according to tradition the First Temple continued burning throughout the night and for most of the following day, the tenth of Av.<ref name="donin" /> It is therefore customary to maintain all restrictions of the nine days through midday (chatzos) of the following day.<ref>Shulchan Aruch w/Mishnah Brurah 558:1</ref>

When Tisha B'Av falls on a Saturday, and is therefore observed on Sunday, the 10th of Av, it is not necessary to wait until midday Monday to end restrictions of the nine days. However, one refrains from involvement in activity that would be considered "joyous", such as eating meat, drinking wine, listening to music, and saying the "shehecheyonu" blessing, until Monday morning. One can wash laundry and shave immediately after the end of a delayed Tisha B'Av.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

When Tisha B'Av begins on Saturday night, the Havdalah ritual is postponed by 24 hours, as one could not drink the accompanying wine. One says Attah Chonantanu in the Saturday night Shemoneh Esrei prayer or says Baruch Hamavdil thus ending Shabbat. A blessing is made on the candle Saturday night. After Tisha B'Av ends on Sunday evening, the Havdalah ceremony is performed with wine (without candle or spices).<ref>Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 125:6</ref>

The laws of Tisha B'Av are recorded in the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 552–557.

Prayer service

Scriptural readings

Template:Quote box The Book of Lamentations is read in synagogue during the evening services.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In many Sephardic congregations, the Book of Job is read on the morning of Tisha B'Av.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Primary source inline

Those called to the Torah reading on Tisha B'Av are not given the usual congratulations for this honor.<ref>Israel Abrahams, Festival Studies (1906, London, Macmillan & Co.) page 81.</ref> There is also a tradition that those who were called to read from the Torah or Haftara in the Tisha B'Av morning service are also called to read in the afternoon service, because the morning readings are filled with calamity and the afternoon readings contain words of consolation.<ref>Shmuel Pinchas Gelbard, Rite and Reason; 1050 Jewish Customs and Their Sources (1998, NY, Feldheim) pages 554–555.</ref>

Kinnot

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Remembrance of the Destruction, showing women reading the Book of Lamentations, painting by Leopold Pilichowski (1925)

Most of the morning is spent chanting or reading Kinnot, bewailing the loss of the Temples and subsequent persecutions, many others referring to post-exile disasters. Later kinnot were composed by various poets (often prominent rabbis) who had suffered in the events mentioned. Important kinnot were composed by Elazar ha-Kalir and Rabbi Judah ha-Levi. After the Holocaust, kinnot were composed by the German-born Rabbi Shimon Schwab (in 1959, at the request of Rabbi Joseph Breuer) and by Rabbi Solomon Halberstam, leader of the Bobov Hasidim (in 1984). Since Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, some segments of the Religious Zionist community have begun to recite kinnot to commemorate the expulsion of Jewish settlers from Gush Katif and the northern West Bank on the day after Tisha B'Av, in 2005.<ref name="Machon Shilo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Nachem

A paragraph that begins Nahem ("Console...") is added to the conclusion of the blessing Boneh Yerushalayim ("Who builds Jerusalem") recited during the Amidah (for Ashkenazim, only at the Mincha service). The prayer elaborates the mournful state of the Temple and city of Jerusalem. The concluding signature of the blessing is also extended to say "Blessed are You, O Lord, Who consoles Zion and builds Jerusalem."

Various Modern Orthodox and Conservative rabbis have proposed amending Nachem, as its wording no longer reflects the existence of a rebuilt Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, for example, issued a revised wording of the prayer and Rabbi Hayim David HaLevi proposed putting the prayer's verbs relating to the Temple's destruction into the past tense. However, such proposals have not been widely adopted.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History of the observance

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Lamenting in the synagogue, 1887

In the long period which is reflected in Talmudic literature the observance of Tisha B'Av assumed a character of constantly growing sadness and asceticism.

Two independent accounts in non-Jewish sources, written in the 4th and 5th centuries of the Common Era (CE), describe how Jews made pilgrimage to Jerusalem each year to mourn for their ruined Temple. At the time, the Byzantine Empire—which had recently adopted Christianity as the state religion—controlled Jerusalem and forbade Jews from entering the city.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The only exception, evidently, was on a day of mourning, presumably the annual commemoration of Tisha B'Av.

The first account is by the anonymous Bordeaux Pilgrim in his Latin travelogue, the Itinerarium Burdigalense, which is dated to 333 CE. The Bordeaux Pilgrim described a "perforated stone" on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which the Jews "anoint"—i.e., rub with oil—once a year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While the Bordeaux Pilgrim stood in front of the stone, he heard the Jews lamenting and saw them tearing their clothes.

The second account is by the Christian Saint Jerome, who spent time in Jerusalem after moving from Rome to Bethlehem in the late 4th Century CE. Jerome was a prolific writer. In the early 5th Century, he wrote commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, including Zephaniah. In his commentary on Zephaniah 1.16, Jerome described the mourning practices of Jews on the Temple Mount, including how the Jews had to bribe Roman soldiers for permission to lament there.<ref>See also {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} F. Meir Loewenberg's scholarship in this area is extraordinarily helpful to the layperson. Note, however, that his citation (in multiple articles) to Jerome's commentaries on “Zephaniah 1.6” is incorrect. The correct citation is to Zephaniah chapter 1, verse 16, as indicated above.</ref> He also described Roman soldiers demanding additional money from elderly Jews, who were weeping, had disheveled hair, and wore garments that looked both worn out and torn.<ref name="Jerome">Template:Cite book.</ref>

Over the centuries, the observance of the day had lost much of its gloom.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The growing strictness in the observance of mourning customs in connection with Tisha B'Av became pronounced in post-Talmudic times, and particularly in one of the darkest periods of Jewish history, from the 15th century to the 18th.<ref name="jewishencyc"/>

Maimonides (12th century) says that the restrictions as to the eating of meat and the drinking of wine refer only to the last meal before fasting on the Eighth Day of Av, if taken after noon, but before noon anything may be eaten.<ref>Mishneh Torah Hilchoth Ta'anith 5:8</ref> Rabbi Moses of Coucy (13th century) (aka the Smag) wrote that it is the universal custom to refrain from meat and wine during the whole day preceding the Ninth of Av.<ref>Sefer Mitzvoth ha-Gadol, Venice ed, Laws of Tishah B'Av, 249b</ref> Rabbi Joseph Caro (16th century) says some are accustomed to abstain from meat and wine from the beginning of the week in which the Ninth Day of Av falls; and still others abstain throughout the three weeks from the Seventeenth of Tammuz.<ref>Shulkhan Arukh, Orach Chayim 551</ref>

A gradual extension of prohibitions can be traced in the abstention from marrying at this season and in other signs of mourning. So Rabbi Moses of Coucy says that some do not use the tefillin ("phylacteries") in the morning of the Ninth Day of Av, a custom which later was universally observed (it is now postponed until the afternoon). In this manner many customs originally designated as marks of unusual piety finally became the rule for mostly all Jews.<ref name="jewishencyc"/>

Contemporary observance

In Israel

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Tisha B'av by Maurycy Trębacz, 1903.

A 2010 poll in Israel revealed that some 22% of Israeli Jews fast on Tisha B'Av, and 52% said they forego recreational activity on this day even though they do not fast. Another 18% of Israeli Jews responded that were recreational spots permissible to be open they would go out on the eve of the fast day, and labeled the current legal status "religious coercion". The last 8% declined to answer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In Israel, restaurants and places of entertainment are closed on the eve of Tisha B'Av and the following day by law.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Establishments that break the law are subject to fines. Outside of Israel, the day is not observed by most secular Jews, as opposed to Yom Kippur, on which many secular Jews fast and go to synagogue. According to halakha, combat soldiers are absolved of fasting on Tisha B'Av on the basis that it can endanger their lives. Template:As of the latest example of such a ruling was issued during Operation Protective Edge by Israel's Chief Rabbis: Rabbis David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

When Menachem Begin became Prime Minister, he wanted to unite all the memorial days and days of mourning on Tisha B'Av, so that Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day would also fall on this day, but it was not accepted.<ref>Dreaming of the Third Temple in a conflicted Land of Israel, Haaretz, 20 July 2010.</ref>

In relation to the creation of the State of Israel

Following the Six-Day War, the national religious community viewed Israel's territorial conquests with almost messianic overtones. The conquest of geographical areas with immense religious significance, including Jerusalem, the Western Wall, and the Temple Mount, was seen as portentous; however, only the full rebuilding of the Temple would engender enough reason to cease observing the day as one of mourning and transform it into a day of joy instead.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Progressive Judaism

Because the destruction of the ancient temples is not assigned a central religious role within progressive denominations of Judaism, observing Tisha B'Av lacks meaning to progressive Jews.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Some Reform Jews observe Tisha B'Av, however, many do not. Reform Rabbi Stephen Lewis Fuchs asserted, Tisha B'Av can be "both a day of mourning and a day of joy" for Reform Jews as the day can mark both mourning Jewish suffering and celebrating Jewish resilience.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While the classical Reform position has discouraged observance of Tisha B'Av, and while many Reform temples still do not observe it, some neo-traditional Reform synagogues have begun to observe Tisha B'Av. Reform Lawrence A. Hoffman has described the contemporary Reform stance on Tisha B'Av as "ambivalent and complicated". Some Reform Jews who observe Tisha B'Av frame their observance through the lens of social justice or progressive Zionism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Some Reconstructionist Jews observe Tisha B'Av and the Reconstructing Judaism website offers resources for Reconstructionist Jews who wish to observe it.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The creation of the State of Israel had an important role in shaping the Conservative approach to Tisha B'Av. Historically, Tisha B'Av was rarely discussed or observed in the Conservative movement until the 1940s when Camp Ramah was founded by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The Zionist stance of Camp Ramah emphasized the importance of observing Tisha B'Av.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Some Conservative Jews feel ambivalent towards Tisha B'Av or have abandoned it because the contemporary city of Jerusalem is thriving and is not in ruins. However, the large majority of Conservative synagogues maintain observance of Tisha B'Av.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other traditions

Iranian Jews refer to this holiday as Noi (pronounced No-ee), which likely comes from the Persian word “noh” meaning nine. The eve of Tisha B’Av is similarly referred to as Shab-e Noi, meaning night of the ninth.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• Jewish fast days
• Jewish holiday

External links

• Rachel's Tears: Finding Meaning in Mourning on Tisha B'av - video by Rabbi David Fohrman, Aleph Beta
• Peninei Halakha by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
• What is Tisha B'Av: The Jewish Day of Mourning? video by BimBam
• How We Can Sweeten the Judgments this Tisha B'Av- ShiratMiriam.com

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