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About this sound Tisha B’Av (lit. the ninth of Av) (Hebrew: תשעה באב‎ or ט׳ באב) is an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of the Jews from the Land of Israel. The day also commemorates other tragedies which occurred on the same day including the Roman massacre of over 100000 Jews at Betar in 132 CE.

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country
Judaism, Jews
meaning
Mourning the destruction of the ancient Temples and Jerusalem and other major calamities which have befallen the Jewish people.
similar
Seventeenth of Tammuz, Tenth of Tevet, The Three Weeks, Fast of Gedalia

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