A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
*Fast Day commemorating the destruction of the *Temple in *Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 CE. The Three Weeks lead up to Tisha b’Av and in the *synagogue the Book of *Lamentations is read and *kinot are recited. (See also *FASTING).
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