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Tisha B'Av 101 My Jewish Learning. Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av (which month coincides with July and/or August), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar.Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews on this day, the major commemoration is of the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem in 586 B…

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Wed, 22 July 2026 at sundown (9th of Av, 5786) Tisha B’av is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’Av primarily commemorates the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and the Roman destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. Since then, numerous other tragedies have befallen the Jewish people on Tisha.