Tisha B'Av | Why We Mourn

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this Tuesday's Tish uh so I thought it would be appropriate to speak about tisho um and you know what really what what what really go is going on in Tish just to sort of like try to get a handle on it kazal tell us that there are five things kazal tell us that there are five things that happened on Tish throughout history on the nth of the first thing with the spies the moram is that the xer the decree against the Jewish people was issued on the ninth day of of that they wander in the desert desert for 40 years so that was the first uh cataclysmic event the second event is the destruction of the first temple the third event is the temple the third event is the destruction of the second temple the fourth event is the destruction of betar which uh supposed to have occurred in 133 CE and the second BD this was destroyed either in 68 CE or 70 CE and the fifth event was in 135 CE uh that they plowed the area of the B MDES they just plowed it like it was a field so that's sort of like a finale field so that's sort of like a finale that's it you see so those five things happen all on Tish what we have to think about is really what's the concept of Tish okay we know that the immediate concept of Tish includes fundamentally two ideas the concept called destruction and then the second concept is called mourning Aus and that's what we do we

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