Tisha B'Av 101 - Why is this the Saddest Day of the Year?
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Lesson
Find answers to questions about Tisha B’Av on this Sefaria sheet.
- Why is Tisha B'Av the Saddest Day of the Year?
- How Do We Mourn?
- Why were the First and Second Temples destroyed?
- What book of Tanakh (Bible) is read on Tisha B’Av?
- Who were Kamtza and Bar Kamtza and what do they have to teach us on Tisha B’Av?
- How can the destruction of the Temple serve as a model to us today of how to carry on after personal loss?
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Topic
- Judaism and Jewish Holidays
- Jewish Tradition
- Talmud
- TaNaKh
Grades
- 6 - 7
- 8 - 12
Setting
- After School Programming
- Congregational Learning
- Day Schools and Yeshivas
- Family Engagement
- Camp
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