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(First comments by Mike Young. The names of the months of the Jewish calendar were adopted during the time of Ezra, after the return from the Babylonian exile. The names are actually Babylonian month names, brought back to Israel by the returning exiles. Note that most of the Bible refers to months by number, not by name. Another note of interest after the Tower of Babel occured the Babylonian tribe called Nimrod who was still alive Tammuz. The month in the Babylonian calendar of Tammuz is named after Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter.)
TISHA B'AV
Tuesday, July 27, 2025 is Tisha B'Av on the Jewish calendar, a day of mourning over great tragedies that befell the Jewish people on the 9th of Av throughout history. On this day, the Jews fast to commemorate five disasters that occurred in the history of the Jewish people, and with this fast end the Three Weeks of mourning between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av......
Amazingly, both the First and Second Temples were destroyed on same day on the Jewish Calendar, 656 years apart.
In 586 B.C., Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians.
The Second Temple was razed by the Romans in A.D. 70. The destruction of the Second Temple fulfilled prophecies in Luke 19:43-44; 21:5,6 and Daniel 9:26.
The spies brought back a negative report from the Promised Land, prompting the Israelites to respond in fear rather than in faith. Because they would not trust God to take them safely into the land, they wandered in the desert for 40 years.
In A.D.130 Emperor Hadrian ordered Jerusalem to be plowed in preparation for building new pagan city, "Aelia Capitolina," on the location, fulfilling Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18. Hadrian changed the name of Judea to "Palaestina."
In A.D. 135 the Romans crushed the revolt under Shimon Bar-Kokhba at the city of Betar, the Jews' last stand against the Romans. Over 100,000 Jews were slaughtered.
Aside from these five disasters, many tragedies continued to happen to the Jewish people on the 9th of Av throughout the centuries.
On Tisha B'Av in:
1290, King Edward I signed an edict to have all the Jews expelled from England.
1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain. (Columbus set sail that same day.)
1555, Pope Paul IV forced the Jews in Rome into a ghetto.
1648, The Chielminicki Massacre began, in which Cossacks killed over a quarter million Polish and Ukrainian Jews.
1914, World War I started when Russia declared War on Germany. Germany’s losses in the war set the stage for WWII and the Holocaust.
1941, "The Final Solution" to exterminate the Jews was put into effect under SS general Reinhard Heydrich.
1942, Jews began being deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Tisha B'Av is observed by fasting from both food and water from sundown to sundown. The book of Lamentations is read during the day. In the morning on Tisha B'Av, Deuteronomy 4:25-40 and Jeremiah 8:13, 9:1-23 are read describing Israel's iniquity and exile and desolation, and in the afternoon the Jews read Exodus 32:11-14 and Isaiah 55-56. However, even in a time of mourning, these passages offer words of hope and future comfort.
According to tradition, while the Temple was destroyed on Tisha B'Av it will also be rebuilt on Tisha B'Av, causing the day of great mourning to be turned into a day of feasting and rejoicing (Zechariah 8:19).
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