A relief on the arch of Titus in Rome showing the plunder of the Temple treasures after the destruction.

"Tish'ah beAv"

• "Tish'ah beAv" is one of the fast days of the Jewish calendar in memory of the destruction of the First and the Second Temples in Jerusalem.
  
• The meaning of the words is a date of the Jewish calendar, namely "nine in (the month of) Av".
• According to Jewish tradition it was on this date that the First Temple was destroyed (586 B.C.E.) by the New Babylonian empire. The Temple was rebuilt about sixty years later under the Persian Emperor Darius, reconstructed by the King Herodus in the year twenty B.C.E. and destroyed again by Titus on "Tish'ah beAv" in the year 70 C.E. during the great revolt of the Jews against the Roman empire (see picture).

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• The expression consists of three elements: "Tishah" , , "be" and Av.

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