How is it possible to mourn something that happened 2000 years ago?

AISH ^ | 8/3/2003 | Keren Gottleib

[yonif]

Ping.

[sirchtruth]

Ah Yes, the 9th of Oct.

Destroyed on the same day both times.

Anyone know what's going on with the Temple Project?

[Reborn]

The 9th of Av is this week. Thank you so much for this article.

[Dog Gone]

Was the Temple really flammable? I guess I'm most familiar with Greek and Roman temples, and they're pretty much made out of rock.

[EternalVigilance]

Amazing story. Thank you.

[EternalVigilance]

Lots of cedar in the Temple.

I'm told that when it burned, the gold that encrusted many items melted and ran down between the stones. In their greed, the Roman soldiers pulled down every stone seeking the gold...thus fulfilling Christ's prophecy that not one stone would be left upon another.

[Dog Gone]

Ah, the Cedars of Lebanon. I should have remembered.

[agrace]

Wow, great story, thanks for posting.

[prairiebreeze]

bookmarking for later read

Prairie

[onedoug]

Inspiring. Thanks.

And that we may look forward to yet better days to come. L'Chaim.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Let us to move this warm fuzzy story to the US: Christian soldier teaches the meaning of Christmas and Christian religion to grade scholars and...

Oh my God, the sky is falling, we must stop such filthy indoctrination of recent immigrant children.

Here in the US some Jews are going absolutely apoplectic over one Mel Gibson for even have dared to tell the story on the day of Christ's crucifixion.

No two face hypocrisy here, nothing behind the curtain, move along.

[Alouette]

the 9th of Oct.

9th of Av. It usually occurs in late July or early August. In addition to the destruction of both Temples, other significant events that happened on Tisha B'av include:

Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.

The outbreak of World War I. (Many Jewish historians consider World War I the "real beginning" of the Holocaust)

[HiTech RedNeck]

I felt as if I had just brought them the worst news possible. It was as if I had just told them about the death of a loved one. I stood there across from a group of Jews who were genuinely mourning the destruction of the Temple.

They believed all that time that the Temple stood, and never tried to actually go there?

[Alouette]

Let us to move this warm fuzzy story to the US: Christian soldier teaches the meaning of Christmas and Christian religion to grade scholars and...

Apples & oranges.

Israel is a Jewish state (at least it is SUPPOSED to be one). The Israeli soldier in the story and the Ethiopian immigrants were all Jews.

The US is a multicultural country with a Christian majority.

[rmlew]

Here in the US some Jews are going absolutely apoplectic over one Mel Gibson for even have dared to tell the story on the day of Christ's crucifixion.

That has never been the issue. Rather it is a fear that the movie will resurrect the historical fallacy that "the Jews" not only were byt are responsible for the crucifiction of Jesus.
Besides you are allowing your anger for the left (many of whom are Jewish) to prejudice you against the Jewish right.

[RobbyS]

The point is how we Christians are supposed to feel on Good Friday when OUR temple was destroyed.

[RobbyS]

What it will show is that Jesus was handed over by his own people to foreigners who put him to death by the most cruel means. Betrayal is never pretty.

[Salem]

Reading between the lines, for those who "have eyes to see," another Jewish writer, speaking individually, yet articulating the spiritual dynamic of the gathering of the Jewish people back again into a corporate knowledge of the presence and working of G-d within this unique people and nation.

Fascinating reading....

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[sirchtruth]

9th of Av. It usually occurs in late July or early August.

I did not realize this and the other info you posted. That is quite interesting.

I hear that the Jewish calender is really facinating with all the events, do you know anything about it, I would like to see any info you could provide?