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TISHA B'AV & The 3 Weeks

Tisha B'Av, the Fast of the Ninth of Av, is a day of mourning to commemorate the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, many of which coincidentally have occurred on the ninth of Av. Tisha B'Av means "the ninth (day) of Av."

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Hebrew
Hebrew is a Semitic language known as the Jewish peoples language and the official language in the state of Israel. The Hebrew language is the third Semitic spoken language after Arabic and Amharic. Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as Leshon Ha-Kodesh (ìùåï ä÷åãù), "The Holy Language", since ancient times.
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Aramaic
Aramaic is a group of Semitic languages and has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, the first language of the middle-east, and is the main language of the Babylonian Talmud.
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Yiddish
Yiddish is a non-territorial Jewish language based on the Germanic language, spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet. It originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland, and then spread to central and Eastern Europe, and eventually to other continents.
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