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The Nine Days of intense mourning leading to Tisha B’Av started on 1 Av.

July 22

3 Av 5772 –  The Nine Days of intense mourning leading to Tisha B’Av started on 1 Av.

 

The momentum gathers in preparation for the Days of Awe and culminates at Sukkot.

 

“O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet . . . for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.” (Jer. 6:1)

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The Capture of Jerusalem

Chagall, hand-colored etching, 1956