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![]() ![]() The Ninth of Av
![]() 10/01/02. Chances are that if you live in the United States you would interpret that date to be October 1, 2002. But many people in the international community would read that date as January 10, 2002. A little confusing perhaps, but could this bit of trivia be something more than that?
Last month the United States marked the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and the loss of United flight 93. The date of the attack was September 11, 2001, or 9/11, the eleventh day of the ninth month. Since the attacks, Americans have come to believe, perhaps rightly so, that the date of the attack was random. 9/11 never held significance for us prior to that fateful day. But is 9/11 significant anywhere else?
Historically, the darkest day on the Hebrew calendar is 9/11 - the ninth day of the eleventh month, the ninth of Av (Tisha B'Av).
On the ninth of Av, five national calamities occurred:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other grave misfortunes throughout Jewish history occurred on the Ninth of Av, including:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() September 11, 2001, did not fall on the ninth of Av, but was the timing specifically chosen by the terrorists to drive home a point - that we are inseperably identified with Israel? Maybe, maybe not. That's something we may never know with any certainty in this life. But one thing is certain - we now have one more bond with Israel. We each have our 9/11. May our bonds with Israel grow stronger and our support for her never waiver.
* Taken from aish.com
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