Why the 9th and not the 10th of AV?

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August 04 2025
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Tisha Bav 

References: Taanit: 29A  

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The Talmud tells us that the majority of the first temple was destoryed on the 10th and NOT on the 9th of Av. So why do we fast and mourn on the 9th?

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today l'zecher nishmas Harav Avraham ben Menachem Moshe, Dr. Allen Goldstein to commemorate his 10th yahrzeit, by his family and by Miriam & Alan Goldberg and Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum to mark the thirteenth yahrtzeit of their father Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R’ Dovid V’ Fraidah Raizel Peyser