Renunciations of specific sins and prayers for forgiveness:
- Renunciation of making an idol out of Jesus and inciting Jews to effectively worship the anti-christ
- Perverting the "good news" of the kingdom of God according Tanak and Judaism (and also possibly according to the new testament) into something that is actually very "bad news" for the Jews.
- Prayer for forgiveness after confession and renunciation of seeking deliverance from U.S. and foreign militaries
- Replacing the seventh day memorial of creation and shabbat, with sunday
- Replacing the biblical harvest festival of ingathering, with Halloween, Oktoberfest, American thanksgiving, and others.
During the month of Elul and high holy days of early Tishrei, you should have done an "accounting of the soul" חשבן נפש and a confession and repentance of any personal sins, repaid any outstanding debts to your neighbors.
Because Yom Kippur is a communal repentance of communal sins, specifically that of the golden calf, pious gentiles who wish to join Israel in this ritual act should consider atoning for the sins of the mixed multitude, the ערוב רב, which incited Israel to the sin of the golden calf.
Renouncing our own idolatry and false worship, we should also have shame and express remorse for having incited Israel to idolatry and false worship.
The Canaanites were held liable by God for practicing sexual perversions, which caused the land to become defiled, and the land "vomited them out". We can infer that the prohibited sexual relationship enumerated Leviticus 18 are just as equally prohibited to gentiles, and on this day should affirm or acceptance of this category of law prohibiting sex crimes.
Reading the story of Jonah, we can imitate the Sailors who praised God and made vows, when the sea was calmed. We can imitate the Ninevites who heard and received Jonah's rebuke, "repenting of their sins and (returning) the stolen items in their possession".
Five tragedies befell the Jewish people on or around the 9th of Av, due to their own sin.
Because God rebukes the "son whom he loves", Israel is punished.
But there were also gentile nations invovled in these tragedies, and they were not innocent. Inevitably, the whole world suffers.
Therefore pious gentiles can partially atone by making a tiqqun for the nations. Instead of inciting Israel to idolatry, resolve in the future to encourage Israel in mitzvot and good deeds.
(ו) חֲמִשָּׁה דְבָרִים אֵרְעוּ אֶת אֲבוֹתֵינוּ בְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז וַחֲמִשָּׁה בְּתִשְׁעָה בְאָב. בְּשִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז נִשְׁתַּבְּרוּ הַלּוּחוֹת, וּבָטַל הַתָּמִיד, וְהֻבְקְעָה הָעִיר, וְשָׂרַף אַפּוֹסְטֹמוֹס אֶת הַתּוֹרָה, וְהֶעֱמִיד צֶלֶם בַּהֵיכָל. בְּתִשְׁעָה בְאָב נִגְזַר עַל אֲבוֹתֵינוּ שֶׁלֹּא יִכָּנְסוּ לָאָרֶץ, וְחָרַב הַבַּיִת בָּרִאשׁוֹנָה וּבַשְּׁנִיָּה, וְנִלְכְּדָה בֵיתָר, וְנֶחְרְשָׁה הָעִיר. מִשֶּׁנִּכְנַס אָב, מְמַעֲטִין בְּשִׂמְחָה:
(6) The mishna discusses the five major communal fast days. Five calamitous matters occurred to our forefathers on the seventeenth of Tammuz, and five other disasters happened on the Ninth of Av. On the seventeenth of Tammuz the tablets were broken by Moses when he saw that the Jews had made the golden calf; the daily offering was nullified by the Roman authorities and was never sacrificed again; the city walls of Jerusalem were breached; the general Apostemos publicly burned a Torah scroll; and Manasseh placed an idol in the Sanctuary. On the Ninth of Av it was decreed upon our ancestors that they would all die in the wilderness and not enter Eretz Yisrael; and the Temple was destroyed the first time, in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, and the second time, by the Romans; and Beitar was captured; and the city of Jerusalem was plowed, as a sign that it would never be rebuilt. Not only does one fast on the Ninth of Av, but from when the month of Av begins, one decreases acts of rejoicing.
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- The Twelve Spies sent by Moses to observe the land of Canaan returned from their mission. Only two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, brought a positive report, while the others spoke disparagingly about the land. The majority report caused the Children of Israel to cry, panic and despair of ever entering the "Promised Land". For this, they were punished by God that their generation would not enter the land.[7] The midrash quotes God as saying about this event, "You cried before me pointlessly, I will fix for you [this day as a day of] crying for the generations",[8] alluding to the future misfortunes which occurred on the same date.
- The First Temple built by King Solomon was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE, and the population of the Kingdom of Judah was sent into the Babylonian exile.[9] According to the Bible, the First Temple's destruction began on the 7th of Av (2 Kings 25:8) and continued until the 10th (Jeremiah 52:12). According to the Talmud,[10] the actual destruction of the Temple began on the Ninth of Av, and it continued to burn throughout the Tenth of Av.
- The Second Temple, built by Zerubbabel and renovated by Herod the Great, was destroyed by the Romans on 9 Av 70 CE,[b] scattering the people of Judea and commencing the Jewish exile from the Holy Land.[9]
- The Romans subsequently crushed Bar Kokhba's revolt and destroyed the city of Betar, killing over 500,000 Jewish civilians (approximately 580,000) on 9 Av 135 CE.[11]
- Following the Bar Kokhba revolt, Roman commander Quintus Tineius Rufus plowed the site of the Temple in Jerusalem and the surrounding area.[12]