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תשעה באב Tisha B'Av near the western wall.

A visitor to the western wall in Jerusalem, holding the Book of Psalms.

Tisha B'Av ("the ninth of Av") is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.

 

 

*Re-edited June 2022

 

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