Between Wednesday evening and Thursday evening this week we will mark the 586th of Av, one of the most prominent days in the Hebrew calendar and the longest fast of the year. As is well known, on this day we mourn the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem, in the years 70 BCE and <> CE – but in fact, according to belief, and even various historical documents, it seems that quite a few bad events happened to the Jewish people on this day. We sent the artificial intelligence engines ChatGPT, Perplexity and Forefront, to look for at least some of them.
The Sin of Spies
According to tradition, the spies that Moses sent to explore the land of Canaan in preparation for entering it returned on Tisha B'Av, and gave the report of the giants living in the land that led to the loss of faith of the Israelites, and to the despair that led a group of illegal immigrants to try to fight the Amalekites that same night, a war in which the illegal immigrants attacked them before the Amalekites.
Destruction of Beitar
In 135 CE, the Bar Kokhba revolt against Roman rule was brutally suppressed, leading to the destruction of the city of Beitar by Emperor Hadrian's army on Tisha B'Av and the deaths of thousands of Jews.
Expulsion from Britain
In 1290, King Edward I issued a decree on Tisha B'Av to expel all Jews from England by November 1 of that year.
Expulsion from Spain
202 years later, a decree was issued in Spain that gave Jews the impossible choice of converting to Christianity or leaving. Tisha B'Av was the day on which the extension granted by the Jews to sell all their assets and leave the territory of the state ended.
World War I
Although the First Great War did not begin on Tisha B'Av, Germany joined it at that time, which is considered a major stage in its transformation from a local war into a global war.
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