{"id":1029,"date":"2009-07-31T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/07\/31\/thursday-night-tish-bav\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:56:00","slug":"thursday-night-tish-bav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/07\/31\/thursday-night-tish-bav\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Tish B'av"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t Very productive day.. worked at home again in the tower. I find I get so much more done when I work up there. It’s quiet and there are no distractions. I was so busy that not much else happened that was worth recording here.. Tonight we had a nice break .. we walked over to Dawn and Jim’s for dinner. It was great hanging out with them. We ended the night with stupid yoga tricks. <\/p>\n

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One other thing of note.I learned from a friend that today is Tish B’Av.(\u05ea\u05e9\u05e2\u05d4 \u05d1\u05d0\u05d1)\u00a0 .. the ninth day of Av… a day of mourning in the Jewish calendar. It’s like Friday the 13th.. but sadder. According to Jewish history there were 5 major calamities on Tish B’av.\u00a0 (I learned from Wikipedia)<\/div>\n
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    The twelve scouts<\/a> sent by Moses<\/a> to observe the land of Canaan<\/a> returned from their mission. Two of the scouts, Joshua<\/a> and Caleb<\/a>, brought a positive report, but the others spoke disparagingly about the land which caused the Children of Israel<\/a> to cry, panic and despair of ever entering the “Promised Land<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

    For this, they were punished by God that their generation would not<\/p>\n

    enter the land. Because of the Israelites’ lack of faith, God decreed<\/p>\n

    that for all generations this date would become one of crying and<\/p>\n

    misfortune for their descendants, the
    Jewish people. (See     Numbers<\/a> Ch. 13\u201314)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    The First Temple<\/a> built by King Solomon<\/a> and the Kingdom of Judah<\/a> was destroyed by the Babylonians<\/a> led by Nebuchadnezzar<\/a> in 586 BCE and the Judeans were sent into the Babylonian exile<\/a>.<\/div>\n
    The Second Temple<\/a> was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, scattering the people of Judea<\/a> and commencing the Jewish exile<\/a> from the Holy Land.<\/div>\n
    Bar Kokhba’s revolt<\/a> against Rome failed in 135 CE. Simon bar Kokhba<\/a> was killed, and the city of Betar<\/a> was destroyed.<\/div>\n
    Following the Roman siege of Jerusalem<\/a>, the razing of Jerusalem occurred the next year. A Temple was built in its stead to an idol.<\/p>\n

    I’d never heard about Tish B’av before yesterday. It’s strange to learn something new about your own culture at age 50.. <\/p>\n

    I hope it was a thoguhtful day for everyone.. <\/p>\n

    It was for me..\u00a0\u00a0 OK.. All for now.. Nite folks,
    \u00a0Nite Sam<\/p>\n

    -me<\/div>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Very productive day.. worked at home again in the tower. I find I get so much more done when I work up there. It’s quiet and there are no distractions. I was so busy that not much else happened that was worth recording here.. Tonight we had a nice break .. we walked over to … Continue reading Thursday night – Tish B'av<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}