{"id":60244,"date":"2018-07-18T08:05:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=60244"},"modified":"2018-09-02T06:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T11:05:19","slug":"9-questions-for-9-av","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/holidays\/fast-of-tisha-bav\/9-questions-for-9-av\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Questions for 9 Av"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. What is Tisha b\u2019Av?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Tisha b\u2019Av \u2013 the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av \u2013 is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a number of tragedies that occurred on that date, most notably the destruction of both Temples, some five centuries apart.<\/p>\n

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2. Why did so many tragedies occur on Tisha b\u2019Av?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Talmud in tractate Taanit\u00a0(29a) explains that the spies who delivered a negative report about the land of Israel in parshat\u00a0Shelach (Bamidbar chapter 13) returned on 9 Av, a date easily calculated from known dates. Discouraged by the spies\u2019 false report, the people cried all night. God said that since they cried for nothing, He would give them legitimate reasons to cry on that date.<\/p>\n

3. Surely the Temples weren\u2019t destroyed just for that! Why were they really destroyed?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Temples weren\u2019t destroyed because the Jews cried thousands of years earlier, that just set the date for future tragedies. The first Temple was destroyed circa 425 BCE because of rampant violation of the three cardinal sins: murder, adultery and idolatry. The second Temple was destroyed because of\u00a0sinat\u00a0chinam<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 baseless hatred between people (Yoma 9b).<\/p>\n

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1. What is Tisha b\u2019Av? Tisha b\u2019Av \u2013 the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av \u2013 is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a number of tragedies that occurred on that date, most notably the destruction of both Temples, some five centuries apart. 2. Why did so many tragedies occur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":60245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fast-of-tisha-bav"],"yoast_head":"\n9 Questions for 9 Av - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anything you ever wanted to know about the nine days and Tisha b'Av in nine short answers! 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