Tisha B’Av at the Tayelet

This low quality video (01:18) shows the Armon Hanatziv Promenade on Tisha B’av, where people gather together, overlooking the Old City and the Temple Mount, to read Kinot (Elegies), hear the reading of Eicha (Lamentations), and sing and pray for redemption. Tisha B’av – the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av – is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, a day of fasting and mourning commemorating a number of disasters in Jewish history that occurred on this day, primarily the destruction of both the First and Second Temples. Many