单词 | Ninth of Ab |
例句 | Ninth of Ab, day of mourning and fasting to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem; hence, colloquially, a sad day. Yiddish Tales For instance, I remember how once, on the eve of the Ninth of Ab—the anniversary of the fall of the Temple—I was looking on at the lamentations of the women. The Promised Land There has been no perceptible increase, for instance, in the number of those who fast on the Ninth of Ab, the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple. Judaism The Ninth of Ab is the hardest fast of all—so the world has it. Yiddish Tales I tell you," persists Chayyim Chaikin, "that the Ninth of Ab is the easiest of the fasts, because it is the best, the very best! Yiddish Tales The whole week preceding the Ninth of Ab he ate nothing, he lived on water. Yiddish Tales It doesn't say that you are to weep on the Ninth of Ab, but you do weep. Yiddish Tales "More fasts, more fasts!" says Chayyim Chaikin, and he takes upon himself to fast on the eve of the Ninth of Ab as well, two days at a stretch. Yiddish Tales It is hard enough to have to break one's fast after the Ninth of Ab, without eating on the eve thereof as well. Yiddish Tales One day, on the Ninth of Ab, I felt obliged to speak out, and tell him that sitting in socks, with his forehead on the ground, reciting Lamentations, would do no good. Yiddish Tales To fast a whole week, to arrive at the eve of the Ninth of Ab, and not hold out to the end! Yiddish Tales |
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