How does that make any sense? The first day of Passover represents the redemption of our ancestors from Egypt that sparked their journey to Israel. The seventeenth of Tamuz and the ninth of Av are fast days that commemorate the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem and our ancestors’ he exile from Israel.
They are on opposite sides of the spectrum. One leads to freedom and Israel, the other leads to exile and away from Israel. Why is the calendar designed for them to fall on the same day of the week?
Moreover, on the first day of Passover, our ancestors left Egypt and traveled to Sinai where they would receive the Torah. On the seventeenth of Tamuz they worshipped the golden calf and Moses shattered the tablets.
The hope of the first day of Passover was shattered on the seventeenth of Tamuz.
On the ninth of Av, the spies returned from Israel telling the people that there was no way to conquer the land and the people cried in despair. G-d then decreed that they would die in the desert and their children, the next generation, would enter Israel.
The ninth of Av was the day when the promise of the first day of Passover was dashed for the generation that left Egypt.
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