| Today is: Thursday, Av 7, 5772 · July 26, 2012
• First Temple Invaded (423 BCE)
After nearly a month of fierce fighting inside Jerusalem (see "Today in Jewish History" for Tammuz 9), the armies of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia broke through into the Temple compound, where they feasted and vandalized until the afternoon of Av 9, when they set the Holy Temple aflame. Links: The Destruction of the Holy Temple
A person does not comprehend the mind of his teacher until the end of forty years
- Talmud, Avodah Zarah 5b
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