section_path: Jewish observances/Jewish holidays/Fast days
section_name: Fast days
paragraph_text: Fast days
  
  Tisha B'Av (Hebrew: תשעה באב or ט׳ באב, "the Ninth of Av ") is a day of mourning and fasting commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples, and in later times, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
  
  There are three more minor Jewish fast days that commemorate various stages of the destruction of the Temples. They are the 17th Tamuz, the 10th of Tevet and Tzom Gedaliah (the 3rd of Tishrei).