How to Be Sad on Tisha B’av

No one likes to be in pain. But what if we stopped resisting it? Just for one day? Tisha B'Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, begins Saturday evening. For 25 hours, observant Jews fast and deny themselves certain other comforts to mourn the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago, along with myriad other tragedies in Jewish history.