Tisha B'Av

book of the Bible

book of the Hebrew Bible

Jewish day of fasting

1492 decree expelling Jews from Spain

siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Roman army

week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives

Last Judah's fort held in the Bar Kokhba's revolt and adjacent modern locations

12 Tribes of Israel before entering the Promise Land

Kinnot (; also kinnos, kinoth, qinot, qinoth; , qinah or kinnah) are Hebrew dirges (sad poems) or elegies. The term is used to refer both to dirges in the Hebrew Bible and to latterly-composed poems that Jews traditionally recite on Tisha B'Av.