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Definition of Ninth of ab

1. Noun. (Judaism) a major fast day on the Jewish calendar commemorating the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem.

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Literary usage of Ninth of ab

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse by Joseph Friedlander, George Alexander Kohut (1917)
"Lines for the Ninth of Ab *^ For thy beauty and glory o'erthrown; OH ALL I sorrow, oh desolate city, Shall I sing the dread day of destruction, ..."

2. The History of the Talmud, from the Time of Its Formation, about 200 B. C by Michael Lewy Rodkinson (1903)
"The five calamities that happened on the seventeenth of Tamuz and those on the ninth of Ab. What is prohibited during the week of the ninth of Ab. The ..."

3. How Christ Said the First Mass, Or, The Lord's Last Supper: The Rites and by James Luke Meagher (1908)
"On the ninth of Ab, five hundred and ninety-eight years before Christ, ... More than six hundred years later, on the ninth of Ab, in the year AD 70, ..."

4. Hebrew Literature: Comprising Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies and the by Epiphanius Wilson (1901)
"On the ninth of Ab it was proclaimed to our fathers, that they should not ... The week in which the ninth of Ab comes, men are not allowed to clip their ..."

5. Mehayil El Hayil: "From Strength to Strength" : Lessons for the Use of (1890)
"THE FAST OF THE ninth of ab. " For the Lord will not cast off for ever ; But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude ..."

6. New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1899)
"The five calamities that happened on the seventeenth of Tamuz and those on the ninth of Ab. What is prohibited during the week of the ninth of Ab. The ..."

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