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To: Big Red Badger
July 20 for 2018. For 2021, its on right NOW (well, in about 2 hours on the east coast):

Tisha B'Av for the year 2021 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of Saturday, July 17th ending at sundown on Sunday, July 18. Tisha B'Av is celebrated in the Hebrew calendar on ninth day of the month of Av. The day is a day of remembrance of the destruction of the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem.

6 posted on 07/17/2021 3:10:16 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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To: C210N

This article states that he set sail on the 11th of Av, but otherwise, in continuation of my earlier comment,

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Simon Wiesenthal suggests in his book, Sails of Hope, that the motive behind Columbus’ voyage was to find a safe haven for the Jews. Similarly, others conclude that Columbus set sail to Asia for the purpose to obtaining enough gold to finance a crusade in an effort to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews’ holy Temple. According to Dr. Gerhard Falk, author of a Man’s Ascent to Reason, he brought a Hebrew interpreter with him, with the hope of locating the ten lost tribes. ( Hence, the popular lyric reads: “In 1492, Colombus sailed the ocean blue. His interpreter was lou, he was a Jew and that is true.”)

https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Christopher-Columbus-Secret-Jew.html


9 posted on 07/17/2021 4:11:55 PM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: C210N

Thank You for that.
.
Is it the
“Festival of Trumpets”
I’m longing for and
When might that be?


12 posted on 07/17/2021 5:58:58 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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