During August, we commemorate a number of tragic days in our history. Tisha B’Av, a fast day that falls on 12-13 August (the 9th day of the month of Av in the Hebrew calendar), is most commonly known as a day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. The dates of these events are 586 BCE and 70 CE.
Other days of catastrophe for Jews around the world that occurred on this date are below:
• The refusal by G-d to allow the Jews to enter the Promised Land after the Exodus
• The ending of the revolt led by Bar Kochba in 135 CE, which brought to a close the resistance of the Jews to the Romans
• The first date when Jews were expelled from Spain at the start of the Spanish Inquisition in 1492
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