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6. And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.7. Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; now the Chaldeans were around the city; and they went by the way of the Arabah.

Jeremiah 52:6-7

הרעב ויחזק לחדש בתשעה הרביעי בחדש   : ותבקע ז הארץ לעם לחם ולא־היה בעיר

ויצאו יברחו המלחמה וכל־אנשי העיראשר בין־החמתים שער רך ד לילה מהעיר וילכו סביב על־העיר ים וכשד המלך על־גן

: הערבה רך ד

9th TammuzOn the 9th Tammuz in the year 3338 (586 BCE), the Babylonian armies of King Nebuchadnezar breached the walls of Yerushalayim and King Tzidkiyahu was captured and taken to Bavel.

A month later the capture of Yerushalayim was finished with the destruction of the First Beis Hamikdash and the exile of most Jews to Bavel.

The 9th of Tammuz was observed as a fast day until the second breaching of Jerusalem's walls by the Romans on the 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew year 3830 (70 CE), at which time the Rabbis moved the fast to that date.

It took a month to capture Yerushalayim, but 70 years to rebuild

the first Beis Hamikdash

It took a just 3 weeks to capture Yerushalayim in the

second Beis Hamikdash period, and we have waited nearly 2000 years for a third

Beis Hamikdash .

We sinned against G-d and the first Beis Hamikdash was

destroyed.

We sinned against each other and the second Beis

Hamikdash was destroyed.

It takes a lot longer to clear up a mess

than it does to make one