This day falls in July or August.
Av is the 5th month, in the Hebrew (Jewish) calendar, God's calendar.
The 9th of Av, when the 1st temple (Solomon's temple) and the 2nd temple (Herod's temple) was destroyed.
This became a day of fasting and prayer (only one day's fast), because on this day, the 9th of Av is the day when the temple that hosted God's presence was destroyed.
So we comemorate it as a day of praying, studing God's word and also interceeding and mourning for Jerusalem (praying for the peace of Jerusalem, Psalm 122:1-9) and showing that we are standing with Israel (the Jewish nation).
Mourning also meaning that a joyful event like getting married cannot take place in this season and mourning also means to appreciate more of God's word and commandments in this season,
where we occupy ourselves with the Torah (old testament and the new testament) reading and praying for the restoration of Israel (Psalm 122:6).
Many tragic events took place against the children of Israel (the Jews) in this month:
· Both the first and second Holy Temples which stood in Jerusalem were destroyed on Av 9: the First Temple by the Babylonians in the year (423 BCE), and the second by the Romans in 69 CE.
· The Jews of England were expelled by King Edward I on this date, 9th of Av, in 1290.
· The Jews of Spain were expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on the 9th of Av of 1492, terminating many centuries of flourishing Jewish life in that country.
This is the month when people starts to get a desire for the father, through the willingness to change by realizing their mistakes and start to have a desire to turn back to Him in spirit and in truth (teshuvah).
This is also a season of relating your physichal behaviours or natural characteristics to God's commandments, that will help you inhabit the true spiritual inheritance of God's DNA.
This month falls in July of August .
By The house of the prophets
