The Nine Days

The first nine days of the month of Av, and also the morning of the tenth, The Temple was set ablaze on the afternoon of the ninth of Av, and burned through the tenth. are days of acute mourning for the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples. ...

Question: I know that the days from the first until the ninth of Av are considered bad days for the Jewish people and that I should try not to have a court case during that time, as the mazal of the Jewish people is not so good. I was wondering, however, ...

"When Av begins, we diminish [our] rejoicing" (Talmud, Taanit 26b). On the 1st of Av, "The Three Weeks" mourning period over the destruction of the Holy Temple--which began 13 days earlier on Tammuz 17--enters an intensified stage. During "The Nine Days" ...

Laws of the 9 Days and the Fast of Tisha B'Av.

I think of the caterpillars we watched as children, seeing them lift-and-crunch from tail to fore as they jerk across a leaf. And I wonder if, standing beside the white or yellow line painted along the tar of Jaffa Street, onlookers felt they'd missed a ...

Beijing's only kosher restaurant has placed an added emphasis on fish over chicken and beef in its highly popular menu.

The mystical secrets hinted to by the numbers in the dates associated with the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem -- the 17th day of Tammuz, the 9th day of Av and the three weeks or twenty-one days between them.

The last passage in Talmud Tractate Tamid enumerates the psalms that were sung each day of the week in the Holy Temple. The “Song for the Sabbath Day” is unique in that it not only speaks about Shabbos, but also alludes to the Era of Moshiach, “The Day ...

The Chabad-Lubavitch Youth Organization is Israel began daily broadcasts of ceremonies marking the completion of Talmud tractates.

What is so remarkable about the timing of Aaron's yahrtzeit that it merits explicit mention in the Torah?