1. Moses

2. The Tabernacle

3. the temple

4. The destruction of the temple and 3 fast days: Tenth of Tevet, Seventeenth of Tammuz, The 3 weeks, Tisha B'Av

5. The Western Wall

6. Prophets

7. The book of Esther and the holiday of Purim

Exodus 34:29 עור-פניו בדברו כי קרן "ומשה לא-ידע

אתו..."

Moses knew not that the skin of his face sent forth beams .

The Tabernacle

Exodus 25:2,8

'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart shall be generous... And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

SHMUEL B, (Book of 2 Samuel), Chapter 7:4-7

I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all places wherein I have walked among all the children of Israel, spoke I a word … saying: Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?

The destruction of the templeand fast days. 2 kings 25.

The destruction of the templeTenth of Tevet 2 kings 25:1-2

• The beginning of the siege on Jerusalem• “In the tenth month, in the tenth day of the

month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.”

(see also - Ezekiel Chapter 24:1-2)

• General Kaddish Day

The Babylonian Army breaks into the city

• “Then a breach was made in the city”

The destruction of the temple

Seventeenth of Tammuz 2 kings 25:4-7

The 3 weeks

• The destruction of the temple

came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem. 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem

The destruction of the templeTisha B'Av

2 kings 25:8-21

The five prohibitions on Tisha B'Av

1. No eating or drinking

2. No washing or bathing

3. No application of creams or oils

4. No wearing of leather shoes

5. No sexual relations.

The Kotel - The Western Wall- The Wailing Wall

3. Shall I weep in the fifth month, abstaining as I have done these many years?

4 .And the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me, saying:

7 .Was it not the words that the Lord proclaimed through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was settled and tranquil, and its cities were around it, and the Negev and the lowland were settled?

Tisha B'Av Zechariah - Chapter 7: 3-10

9 . So said the Lord of Hosts, saying: Execute true judgment and perform loving-kindness and mercy, each one [of you] to his brother.

10 . Do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the stranger, or the poor man. Neither shall any of you think evil against his brother in your heart.

Tisha B'Av Zechariah - Chapter 7: 3-10

Purim

Esther 9:20-22And Mordecai inscribed these things and sent

letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces … to make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day of it, every year, as the days when the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was reversed for them from grief to joy and from mourning to a festive day-to make them days of feasting and joy, and sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.