The Month Of Av
| Date | Event | Year after creation |
| 1 | The mountain tops were seen, after the flood. | 1657 |
| Aharon the High Priest died, at the age of 123 | 2489 | |
| Ezra HaSofer arrives with thousands of people to Yerushalayim. | 3414 | |
| 4 | Today they weighed the gold and silver that Ezra & the people brought to the Temple. | 3414 |
| Nechemyah and the people started rebuilding the wall around Yerushalayim, which took 52 days (25th of Ellul). | 3428 | |
| 5 | Rabbi Yitzchok Luriya, known as the AriZal, author of many Kabalistic works, died at the age of 36. | 5332 |
| 8 | The spies that were sent by Moshe Rabeinu, (to explore the land of Israel), came back after 40 days. | 2450 |
| 9 | Public fast day. 5 tragedies happened on this day. 1) Hashem decreed that the generation that came out of Egypt will die in the desert, since they cried all night after hearing what the spies reported about the land and didn't show any faith in Hashem. |
2450 |
| 2) - 3) The first and second Temple was destroyed. | 3339/3829 | |
| 4) The city Beitar was captured and destroyed. | 3893 | |
| 5) Yerushalayim was flattened and plowed over. | 3893 | |
| The Prophet Jerimiah, was born today. | ? | |
| 4000 Jews were exiled from England. | 5050 | |
| The Spanish exiled 300,000 Jews from their land. | 5252 | |
| The first world war started today. | 5674 | |
| 10 | Yisachar the son of Ya'akov was born, and died today at the age of 122. | 2198-2320 |
| The Jews from France were expelled by Philip the 4th. | 5066 | |
| The Jews from Portugal were expelled. | 5258 | |
| 15 | A day of rejoicing - 5 good things happened today. 1) The decree for the generation [that left Egypt] to die, stopped. |
2488 |
| 2) The marriage between the 12 tribes were permitted. | ? | |
| 3) The King Hoshea son of Ela, took away the guards that King Yaram ben Navat put up to stop the people from going up to Yerushalayim, to the Temple. | ? | |
| 4) They finished chopping wood for the Alter, [which lasted till next summer], and they made this day a holiday for finishing a Mitzvah. | Every Year | |
| 5) Permission was granted to bury the dead of Beitar, who
were killed on the 9th of Av. The Sages added the 4th blessing in the 'Grace after meals' for this occasion. The blessing is called 'HaTov Umativ' meaning, 'Who is good and does good', meaning, 'Who is good' in memory for - that permission was granted to bury the dead, and 'Who does good' - in memory for the miracle that the bodies didn't smell. |
3893 | |
| 17 | The eternal western light in the Temple extinguish, in the days of King Achaz (some say it was on the 18th). | ? |
| 28 | Finished the days that the Prophet Yechezkail was lying in bed (see 12th of Tamuz) and now was prepared to recieve the next prophecy on the 5th of Elul. | 3334 |