Tisha B'Av, the Ninth day of the month of Av, marks sad days in Jewish History. Both Temples were destroyed.
During the Wilderness Wanderings
·
After being delivered from Pharaoh's
slavery in Egypt through the Red Sea, and arriving at Kadesh-Barnea but lacking
the faith to enter the Promised Land, God decreed that that generation would
never enter His Land. According to Jewish tradition it was on the 9th of Av.
·
God told the
Children of Israel that the oldest generation would not enter the Land.
Numbers 14. Also, Mishnah (Ta'an 4:6).
First and Second Temples Destroyed
·
The First
Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in
586 BCE.
·
The Second
Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
·
The city of
Betar was captured and thousands of Jews were killed in 135 CE. and was the last
the last hold out of the Bar Kochba Revolt.
On the Ninth of Av
Emperor Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem; builds new walls and renames the city Aelia
Capitolina and country Palestine; bans Jews from Jerusalem.
England
- 1066 Jews welcomed to
enter England under William the Conqueror as
money lenders to the crown.
- The anti-Jewish riots
and the mass suicide of the Jews of York, England in 1190.
- On the Ninth of Av in
the year 1290, King Edward I signed the edict compelling the Jews to leave
England. Banishing the Jews from England three hundred fifty years until
around 1655.
France
1306
Spain
- On the 9th
of Av, 1492, by order of the Spanish inquisition under Ferdinand and
Isabella, the expulsion of 200,000 Jews from Spain, after centuries of
cultural and spiritual growth, occurred on this date.
- Boarding
their ships before the deadline, at midnight August 2nd, Columbus and his
crew set sail at dawn. On the Jewish calendar, it happened to be the 9th of
Av, or Tisha B'Av.
Modern
Day
- The
World War I broke out on Tisha B'Av. Britain and Russia declare
war on Germany. First World War begins.
First World War issues unresolved, ultimately causing Second World
War and Holocaust. 75% of all
Jews in war zones. Jews in
armies of all sides - 120,000 Jewish casualties in armies. Over 400 pogroms immediately following war in Hungary,
Ukraine, Poland and Russia.
- Fifteen years later, on
this very same date, the Arabs began their riots in the city of Jerusalem,
which resulted in great tragedy, including the Jewish massacre in Hebron.
- Deportation of the Jews
of the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinkabegan on this day in 1942.