Av 9: Learning From Our Loss – OpEd

The First Temple was destroyed either on the 10th of Av (Jeremiah 52:12) or the 7th (2 Kings 25:8). The Second Temple, according to the first century Jewish historian Josephus and Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai (who was there) was destroyed on the 10th. 

Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai said (Talmud, Ta’anit 29a): “Had I been around...