Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tisha B'Av" in English language version.
Some congregations in Israel and the Diaspora will have new texts to read about more recent, tragic events of Oct. 7, the greatest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Every year, on the fast day of Tisha B'Av, Jewish communities worldwide chant a series of dirges, called "kinnot," that commemorate the tragedies of Jewish history in verse, from the destruction of the temples to the Crusades to the Holocaust.
Tisha b'Av is forbidden for washing, anointing, wearing leather shoes, and marital relations. It is also forbidden to read from the Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings) and to learn mishna and midrash and gemara and halacha and aggada, because it says, "The precepts of God are right, gladdening the heart" (Tehillim 19:9). Schoolchildren are idle on it. One may read Iyov and the negative passages in Yirmiyah, but if there are between them passages of consolation, one must skip them.
