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Subject: July 30th is Hollywoord actor and Govenor of Californias birthday(born 1947)=Austria

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Date Posted: 12:46:41 07/29/09 Wed
In reply to: The city of Jerusalem was destroyed in 136 CE. 's message, "Tisha B'Av====Jewish Calendar July 30th 2009--day of lamentations" on 12:42:56 07/29/09 Wed

>Tisha B'Av
>Five sad events in Jewish history occurred on the
>ninth day of the month of Av. These include the
>destruction of the First Temple in the year 423 BCE
>and the Second Temple in the year 69 BCE. The
>anniversary is marked by a day of mourning, prayer,
>fasting and abstinence from certain activities.
>
>Torah study is forbidden on Tisha B'Av except for sad
>texts such as the Book of Lamentations.
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>What do people do?
>The period known as the Three Weeks begins on the 17th
>of Tammuz and ends on Tisha B' Av. Many Orthodox
>Jewish people do not cut their hair or hold weddings
>during this period. They also do not eat meat, drink
>wine or go to concerts during the nine days before
>Tisha B' Av.
>
>Tisha B' Av is a day of mourning, fasting and prayer.
>There are five main prohibitions, which are:
>
>Not eating or drinking.
>Not washing or bathing.
>Not using scented creams or oils.
>Not wearing leather shoes.
>Not displaying physical affection or engaging in
>sexual relations.
>It is not allowed to study the Torah, except for sad
>texts. Old prayer books and Torahs may be buried. Some
>restrictions, such as not eating meat or drinking
>wine, continue until noon (12:00) on the day after
>Tisha B' Av.
>
>It is customary to sit on the floor or low stools and
>to sleep on the floor or without a pillow on Tisha B'
>Av. Some Jewish followers may spend most of the day
>reading or chanting kinnot (kinnos, kinoth, qinot,
>qinoth). Kinnot are mourning poems or poems describing
>sad events such as the destruction of the Second
>Temple, the crusades, and the holocaust. Some Jewish
>groups only mourn events that happened a long time ago
>on Tisha B' Av and mourn the events of the Holocaust
>on Yom HaShoah.
>
>Public life
>Tisha B' Av is not a public holiday in Australia,
>Canada, the United Kingdom or the United States.
>However, some Jewish organizations may be closed or
>have restricted opening hours to allow special events
>to be held.
>
>Background
>Tisha B’Av, also known as the Jewish Fast of Av, is a
>period of fasting, lamentation and prayer to remember
>the destruction of the First and Second Temples of
>Jerusalem. The Jewish people still continued the fast
>day even after they rebuilt the First Temple after the
>Babylonians destroyed it in 586 BCE. The Romans
>destroyed the Second Temple by burning it in 70 CE and
>this marked the start of a long exile period for
>Jewish people. These are two of five sad events or
>calamities that occurred on the ninth day of the month
>of Av. The other three were when:
>
>Ten of the 12 scouts sent by Moses to Canaan gave
>negative reports of the area, leading to the
>Israelites’ despair.
>The Romans captured the fortress city of Beitar, the
>last stronghold of the leaders of the Bar Kochba
>revolt, and thousands of Jewish people, including Bar
>Kokhba (or Kochba), were massacred in 135 CE.
>The city of Jerusalem was destroyed in 136 CE.
>Tisha B’Av is a sad day that observes other major
>disasters and tragedies that Jewish people experienced
>throughout history, including the expulsion of the
>Jewish people from England in 1290 and from Spain in
>1492, as well as the mass deportation of Jewish people
>from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
>
>The degree of observing Tisha B' Av varied through the
>centuries. It was observed less stringently around 100
>CE to 200 CE, but more strictly and widespread around
>1000 CE to 1200 CE. After the establishment of Israel
>as a Jewish state in 1948 and the reunification of
>Jerusalem in 1967, some groups proposed that Tisha B'
>Av should no longer be a day of mourning and fasting.
>
>It is important to note that if the ninth day of Av
>falls on a Saturday (Shabbat), the fast is observed on
>the tenth day of the month of Av.
>
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