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Often in life a whole world is contained in a single word or phrase. There is a particular word that encapsulates the times that we find ourselves in at the moment. Currently we are in the nine days of intensive mourning and sadness that lead up to the commemoration fast on the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av. It’s the 24 hour fast of Tisha B’Av. This fast recalls the destruction of the two temples, the exile, the persecution, the suffering and all the sadness our people have gone through. The Talmud relates that on the first recorded 9th of Av in history the spies came back with their negative reports about the land.