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Exodus 18:1-20:23

It is seven weeks after the Exodus. The nation of Israel assembles at the foot of Mount Sinai. G-d descends on the mountain amidst thunder, lightening, billows of smoke and the blast of the shofar, and summons Moses to ascend. After that, nothing was the same...
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Five [tragic] events occurred to our forefathers on the Ninth of Av: It was decreed that [the generation of the Exodus] will not enter the Land; the first and second Temples were destroyed; Betar was conquered; and the city [of Jerusalem] was ploughed over
— Talmud, Taanit 4:6
 
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