Destruction of the First Holy Temple

The tale of Solomon's Temple, Israel's glory, and its eventual debasement. The prophets went unheeded, and the result was a destroyed nation and a burnt house of G-d.

This is the only Jewish fast that is observed on Friday, which means that we fast all the way up until we make kiddush.

In the times of the First Temple lived very lofty souls. It was their thirst for spiritual ecstasy that led them to worship foreign gods. Thousands of years later, the holy Ari taught, in the 500 years of forced conversions from the Crusades until the Spa...

The First Temple’s destruction in the year 3338 (from creation) and the Babylonian exile until the construction of the Second Temple in year 3408.

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

After nearly a month of fierce fighting inside Jerusalem (see "Today in Jewish History" for Tammuz 9), the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia broke through into the Temple compound, where they feasted and vandalized until the afternoon of Av 9, wh...

A historical perspective on the events that led up to the destruction of the Holy Temple

According to some, this confusion goes back to the time when the walls were breached and the Temple was destroyed.

Concluding our lessons on the Jewish kings, this lesson covers the last kings of Judah from the reign of Hezekiah until the final king, Zedekiah, in whose time the First Temple was destroyed.