[Avodah] Tisha B'Av in the Midbar

[Akiva Miller]

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For almost 40 years in the Midbar, people would dig their own graves on
Erev Tisha B'Av, go to sleep that night, and about 15000 fewer would wake
up in the morning. From the stories about 15 Av, it seems that the above
was meant quite literally, and it is not a poetic metaphor for something
else.

So I wonder: Over those several decades, Tisha B'Av surely fell on Shabbos
occasionally. Does anyone write about those years? Did they dig on Erev
Shabbos and die on Shabbos night? Or perhaps, did Hashem, in His amazing
kindness, delay Tisha B'Av until Sunday like we do?

Akiva Miller
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