Path: Kabbalah/Judaism

Also known as the Fast of the Ninth of Av, it marks the end of a 3-week period of mourning and is a fast day commemorating the date on which a number of tragedies befell the Jewish people.. These include the destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire (586 B.C) and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire (70 A.D) in Jerusalem, expulsion from England, France and Spain and the Holocaust. Many consider it to be the saddest day in the Jewish Calendar as it reflects on the suffering of the Jewish people throughout history. The day is observed by fasting, chanting the book of Lamentations and reciting mourners’ prayers, while sitting on the ground.