As the Middle East speculates how and when Iran will follow through with an expected attack on Israel, the possibility exists that it will take place on Tisha B’Av, a Jewish day of mourning that begins at sundown on Monday.
“I won’t say it’s not scary, but the fact that they are possibly attacking on Tisha B’Av, as a religious Jew, strengthens me, because it says that God is indeed running the world,” Rabbi Asher Resnick, a a Jerusalem educator for more than 35 years and author told The Press Service of Israel.
And that, Resnick added, “is very encouraging.”
Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar. It commemorates numerous tragedies in Jewish history, all of which happened on this date — most notably, the destruction of both the First and Second Temples.