Thread by @lennybendavid

#TishaBav Wed night-Thurs night. 9th Day of Av is the Jewish People's national day of morning. Fasting, reading lamentations, no leather shoes...
The Day both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed. Sculpted relief from Arch of Titus in Rome⬇️

What else occurred?

1/ of a gallery

2/ #TishaBav Gallery. How artists viewed the calamity of the destruction of Jerusalem.
Rembrandt: Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem (1630)
Francesco Hayez: The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (1867) Plus close up.

3/ of gallery
So much destroyed, so many massacred in 70 CE. So much still visible.
Stones from the great walls destroyed by Romans.
The "burnt house" in the Old City, just like it was when it was destroyed by Romans. Almost like Pompeii. Very personal, like arm of young woman.

#TishaBav gallery 4/
So much was burned in 70 CE Jerusalem. A wonderful couple the Siebenbergs dug deep under their Old City home & found ash. "Sifting Project" to recover soil dumped from Temple Mt found ash.
We have ashes if grooms & brides want to remember Jerusalm at wedding

#TishaBav gallery 5/
Regarding ashes, until ~20 yrs a. large piles of ashes from Temple service were located north of Old City Damascus Gate. Confirmed by European labs to contain animal bones. Heaps were cleared for housing.
Lib of Congress: Ash heaps from the Temple sacrifices

#TishaBav gallery 5b/

Temple ashes mystery. Pic 1 from an 1865 British map from Charles Wilson.
Pic 2 shows an archaeological dig exposing the ancient "Third Wall of Jerusalem." Per caption: "behind it the remains of the burned offerings" שפך הדשן.
har-habait.org/articleBody/30…

#TishaBav gallery 6/
In recent history Jews were permitted to visit the narrow Western Wall alley until 1948. But then Jordan expelled Jews from Old City Jewish Qtr til 1967.
Pic 1 ~1900 Yom Kippur
2. 1931 Zeppelin pic. Wall in yellow
3. 1948 Jordanian soldier
3. Old city 1950

* until ~120 years ago