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Expulsion from England (1290)
The Jews of England were expelled by King Edward I on this date in 1290
The Spanish Expulsion (1492)
The Jews of Spain were expelled by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on the 9th of Av of 1492, terminating many centuries of flourishing Jewish life in that country.
Holy Temples Destroyed; Birth of Moshiach (423 BCE and 69 CE)
Both the first and second Holy Temples which stood in Jerusalem were destroyed on Av 9: the First Temple by the Babylonians in the year 3338 from creation (423 BCE), and the second by the Romans in 3829 (69 CE).
The Temples' destruction represents the greatest tragedy in Jewish history, for it marks our descent into Galut--the state of physical exile and spiritual displacement in which we still find ourselves today. Thus the Destruction is mourned as a tragedy that affects our lives today, 2,000 years later, no less than the very generation that experienced it first hand.
Yet the Ninth of Av is also a day of hope. The Talmud relates that Moshiach ("anointed one"--the Messiah), was born at the very moment that the Temple was set aflame and the Galut began. [This is in keeping with the teachings of our sages that, "In every generation is born a descendent of Judah who is worthy to become Israel's Moshiach" (Bartinoro on Ruth); "When the time will come, G-d will reveal Himself to him and send him, and then the spirit of Moshiach, which is hidden and secreted on high, will be manifested in him"
Originally posted by iwan2ski
July 28th = 9 AV
Expulsion from England (1290)
The Jews of England were expelled by King Edward I on this date in 1290
Originally posted by R6A6W6
reply to post by Maldavius
Thanks for pointing that out. Small error sorry.
I'll edit that now loledit on 19-7-2012 by R6A6W6 because: (no reason given)
The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Bavaria in southern West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September.[3][4][5][6][7] Shortly after the crisis began, the Palestinians demanded the release of 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails. They also demanded the release of all members of the German Red Army Faction being held in German prisons.[8] Black September called the operation "Ikrit and Biram",[9] after two Christian Palestinian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the Haganah in 1948.
The kidnappers killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer. Five of the eight members of Black September were killed by police officers during a failed rescue attempt. The three surviving assassins were captured, but later released by West Germany following the hijacking by Black September of a Lufthansa airliner. Israel responded to the killings with Operation Spring of Youth and Operation Wrath of God, during which Palestinians suspected of involvement in the massacre were systematically tracked down and killed by Israeli intelligence and special forces. The Israeli operations cost the lives of one innocent in Norway (Lillehammer affair) and of four passersby in Lebanon during the killing of Ali Hassan Salameh.[10]
DAMOUR, Lebanon - There is not much left here.
Once an elegant Christian town of hand-hewn stone homes and citrus groves overlooking the Mediterranean, Damour is now a hollow ruin. Weeds sprout from bombed-out foundations. Apartment buildings stagger from mortar fire. One has imploded at an angle like a broken accordion.
Damour suffered more than most Christian towns in Lebanon's bloody 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. It was just one of many datelines of horror that transformed the country into a television-age Armageddon. The conflict claimed 150,000 lives.
Both Muslims and Christians fled Lebanon, but far more Christians left. From a prewar Lebanese population of roughly 4 million, 500,000 of the 700,000 who emigrated were Christian. In the eight years since, another 100,000 Christians have left.
Damour's desolate streets were blanketed in fog on a recent morning. The dull tapping of hammers broke a strange silence that falls on the town 15 miles south of Beirut. A work crew was fitting new stones into the walls of St. Elia's Eastern Orthodox Church, which was demolished in the fighting.
Stonecutter Michael Abu Abdella, 58, wiped the plaster dust off his hands and remembered the attacks that devastated the Christian community and forced hundreds to flee. The worst memory of that time was the night in January 1976 when Palestinian Fatah guerrillas returned to savage the 300 Christians who remained. They dynamited homes and massacred entire families. They exhumed the dead from the Christian cemetery and scattered skeletons throughout the rubble.
Originally posted by harryhaller
Originally posted by iwan2ski
July 28th = 9 AV
Expulsion from England (1290)
The Jews of England were expelled by King Edward I on this date in 1290
722 years.
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Theosophist Helena Blavatsky outlines elaborates on the importance of pi:
The mathematical symbol for the incommensurable ratio of the circumference of a circle to the length of its diameter, and for corresponding ratios in plane and solid geometry. Its incommensurability is a particular instance of the impossibility of expressing geometrical magnitudes exactly in number. Bearing in mind that there is a geometrical key to interpretation of cosmic law and structure, and that the facts of geometry cannot possibly be arbitrary or meaningless but must be faithful representations of general laws; then we shall understand that the ratio π, involving such radial and important elements as the straight line and the circle, must be of paramount importance. The figures, either for approximate decimal evaluations or approximate fractional ratios, play an important part in the symbology of the ancient mystery-language. These figures and the numbers which they make are found in the numerical values of letters and words in the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. The problem of squaring the circle by a purely geometrical construction does not involve the use of π at all. In the occult, 1 represents man and 0 represents woman.
Originally posted by iwan2ski
Originally posted by harryhaller
Originally posted by iwan2ski
July 28th = 9 AV
Expulsion from England (1290)
The Jews of England were expelled by King Edward I on this date in 1290
722 years.
Does 722 have any special meaning? I know 322 is identified with skull and bones and Freemasonary, but the only thing that google turns up is project 722 which seems to be about a new addition to the Wizardary World of Harry Potter.
Originally posted by Sovaka
Or it could be that we will see the return of famous people whom have faked their deaths?
January 1976 when Palestinian Fatah guerrillas returned to savage the 300 Christians who remained. They dynamited homes and massacred entire families. They exhumed the dead from the Christian cemetery and scattered skeletons throughout the rubble.