Iran's Threatened Attack of Big War on Tisha B'Av

 Nadene Goldfoot                                              

  Tisha B'Av when the 1st Temple of Solomon was destroyed by  Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

Israel Prepares for Expected Attacks by Iran and Hezbollah

Israel advised people to stock up on food and water 2 days ago in fortified safe rooms, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told soldiers that Israel is “prepared for defense, as well as offense.”

On April 4th and 17th, Iran has threatened Israel with a War of Annihilation on Tisha B'Av which happens to fall this month of August between the 12th and 13th.  It's our traditional date of " 'The ninth of Av') which  is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both of Solomon's Temples; in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar; (After the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, the Jews of the Kingdom of Judea went into exile.  According to the Bible, the Temple was plundered by King Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire when the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem during the brief reign of Jehoiachin c. 598 BCE (2 Kings 24:13).

A decade later, Nebuchadnezzar again besieged Jerusalem and after 30 months finally breached the city walls in 587/6 BCE. The city finally fell to his army in July 586/5 BCE. A month later, Nebuzaradan, commander of Nebuchadnezzar's guard, was sent to burn and demolish the city. According to the Bible, "he set fire to the Temple of Yahweh, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem" (2 Kings 25:9). Everything worth plundering was then removed and taken to Babylon (2 Kings 25:13–17).

        Arch of Titus in Rome picturing Jewish slaves out of Jerusalem after fire

The 2nd Temple was destroyed by the Roman  Empire during the First Jewish-Roman War.  in 70 CE.)  These are well documented events in history.  

DUBAI, April 23 (Reuters) - An Israeli attack on Iranian territory could result in there being nothing left of the "Zionist regime", Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the official IRNA news agency.

Other calamities

Over time, Tisha B'Av has come to be a Jewish day of mourning, not only for these events, but also for later tragedies that occurred on or near the 9th of Av. References to some of these events appear in liturgy composed for Tisha B'Av (see below). Note that dates prior to 1582 are in the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian calendar.

• The First Crusade officially commenced on 15 August 1096 (Av 24, AM 4856), killing 10,000 Jews in its first month and destroying Jewish communities in France and the Rhineland.
• The Jews were expelled from England on 18 July 1290 (Av 9, AM 5050).
• The Jews were expelled from France on 22 July 1306 (Av 10, AM 5066).
• The Jews were expelled from Spain on 31 July 1492 (Av 7, AM 5252).
• Germany entered World War I on 1–2 August 1914 (Av 9–10, AM 5674), which caused massive upheaval in European Jewry and whose aftermath led to World War II and the Holocaust.
• On 2 August 1941 (Av 9, AM 5701), SS commander Heinrich Himmler formally received approval from the Nazi Party for "The Final Solution," which marked the beginning of the Holocaust during which almost one third of the world's Jewish population was murdered.
• On 23 July 1942 (Av 9, AM 5702), the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka began.
• The AMIA bombing on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killed 85 and injured 300 on 18 July 1994 (10 Av, AM 5754).
• The 2005 Israeli disengagement from Gaza, according to some Religious Zionist rabbis like Yaakov Ariel and Dov Lior. Kinnot have been composed about the withdrawal, and the connection to Tisha b'Av was emphasized in 10-year anniversary commemorations.The disengagement's timing lent itself to symbolic interpretation both by Religious Zionists and by wider Jewish culture. However, even within Religious Zionism, Chaim Navon holds that the disengagement did not rise to the level of a calamity and Shlomo Aviner has written that mourning the disengagement on Tisha b'Av is forbidden because it incites political division. Yona Metzger, then Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, ruled in 2006 that the disengagement was a tragedy but mourning rituals should not be integrated into Tisha b'Av, while Howard Jachter permits it in narrow fashion.

While the Holocaust spanned a number of years, most religious communities use Tisha B'Av to mourn its 6,000,000 Jewish victims, in addition to or instead of the secular Holocaust Memorial Days such as Yom HaShoah. On Tisha B'Av, communities that otherwise do not modify the traditional prayer liturgy have added the recitation of special kinnot related to the Holocaust. 

On Friday, explosions were heard over the Iranian city of Isfahan in what sources said was an Israeli attack but Tehran played down the incident and said it had no plans for retaliation.

April 13: Iran fires 300 missiles and drones; most intercepted; minor damage at IDF base. Unprecedented assault triggered sirens nationwide, booms of interceptions * Bedouin child hurt by shrapnel * IAF, US, UK, Jordan intercepted projectiles.

Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel on April 13 in what it said was retaliation for Israel's suspected deadly strike on its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1, but almost all were shot down.  

"The Islamic Republic of Iran will honorably continue to support the Palestinian resistance," Raisi added in the speech in Lahore.  They have been doing it through their tentacles of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.  They have since learned of the date of Jewish calamities and are threatening reprisal on this date.  

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The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) , specifically within the Book of Kings, includes a detailed narrative about the construction's ordering by Solomon, the 3rd  ruler of the United Kingdom of Israel after Kings Saul and David. It further credits Solomon as the placer of the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies, a windowless inner sanctum within the structure.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-do-we-jews-think-about-satan.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/world/middleeast/israel-prepare-iran-attack.html