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Tisha B’Av Quiz

How much do you know about Tisha B'Av?

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The fast day Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and many other tragedies throughout Jewish history.

 

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Question 1 of 10
Tisha B'Av never occurs
Question 2 of 10
What is the Hebrew term for the Book of Lamentations?
Question 3 of 10
How many weeks of communal mourning lead up to Tisha B’Av?
Question 4 of 10
Which European leaders expelled the Jews from their country in 1492?
Question 5 of 10
In what year were Jews expelled from Spain, one of the Jewish tragedies marked in Tisha B’av?
Question 6 of 10
What does the beginning of the Three Weeks mark?
Question 7 of 10
In the three-week period before Tisha B’Av, which of these activities do traditional Jews refrain from?
Question 8 of 10
What is significant about the Shabbat following Tisha B'Av?
Question 9 of 10
Who is the "weeping woman" in the prophet Jeremiah's dirges thought to be?
Question 10 of 10
Beginning on the 1st of Av, traditionally people
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