‘Remember, remember the Ninth of Av’

     
On this Jewish calendar date, the Ninth of Av, Nebuchadnezzar’s troops took Jerusalem and destroyed King Solomon’s Temple in the year 587 BCE, and the Second Temple was destroyed by Roman forces in 70 CE. Many other calamities occurred on this date in Jewish history right up to the modern era.

Synagogue lights will be dimmed, fasting will commence, and the Book of Lamentations will be read.

It’s worth the attention of Freemasons too.