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The Mishnah (26a-b) taught that five separate occurrences took place on the seventeenth of Tamuz and another five on the ninth day of Av for which we are in mourning to this day.
The events of Tisha be-Av are discussed on our daf. They include:
After the sin of the spies, the Children of Israel were condemned to die in the desert rather than enter the Promised Land
The first Temple was destroyed
The second Temple was destroyed
The city of Beitar was captured
The city of Jerusalem was plowed up
We explore the historical events from Apostemus to Himmler associated with Tisha B'Av and how it shapes our communal memory and self identity.