Tisha B'Av a Memorial in Time

Ultra-Orthodox men praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday as they mark the mourning ritual of Tisha B'Av.

Tisha B'Av is a memorial having to do with the destruction of the two Jewish temples. The first temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. and the second by the Romans in 70 A.D., which in turn created the Jewish Diaspora; which lasted until the Jewish people started to return most welcomed to Palestine, by the Palestinian people at the first part of the twentieth century.

While a war was created between the Jewish people and the Arab Palestinian people by the United States for 108 years, the Jewish and Muslim Palestinian’s are most gratefully one again as it was in the thousands of years before, the destruction of the temples or the Jewish Diaspora as one family of two religions; Judaism and Islam through the descendants of Abraham.

An ultra-Orthodox Jew blows the Shofar at the Wailing Wall in the heart of Jerusalem's Old City during the Tisha B'Av ceremony, on 10 August 2008. It is written, the Shofar would only be blown in this manner when the Jewish Diaspora was officially over and or the return of a prophet.

What is most important, this family of Abraham with two religions can be together once more, in love and respect for each other; while it has been a long hard road, it was worth it, to just see each other’s faces once more.