This coming Sunday is Tisha B’Av, the Tenth of the Hebrew Month of Av, where Jews all over the world commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Great Temple that once stood there.
This sordid event happened twice, on the same date: First in 586 BCE (2,611 years ago) by the Babylonians, and then again in 70 CE (1,955 years ago) by the Romans. The shockwaves that these events created for the Nation of Israel and the entire world echo to this very day.
Israeli film artist Gidi Dar has created a unique kind of film about the Second Destruction. Gidi and his partners envisioned and created 1,500 individual oil paintings and linked them together into an astonishingly powerful film. The movie was first released in Hebrew, and only now, in English.
It is a must-see for anyone who wishes to experience almost personally the momentous event that shaped Jewish consciousness for millennia.