US House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a Jewish holy site, while wearing a kippah during the Tisha B’Av fast. Leading a congressional delegation, Johnson prayed at the Wall in the tradition of the Jews and spoke of American solidarity with Israel. Accompanying Speaker Johnson were Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of Mike Huckabee, and the US Ambassador to Israel.
NOW - U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson prays at the Western Wailing Wall while wearing a Kippah. pic.twitter.com/3CQe20QzpF
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Tisha B’Av is the ninth day of the Hebrew month Av. Orthodox and Conservative Jews fast for about 25 hours and sit on low stools in the synagogue while they chant Lamentations (Eicha) to mourn the destruction of both Jerusalem Temples—said to have occurred on the same calendar date centuries apart—along with a grab-bag of later calamities they fold into the liturgy (Jewish expulsion from Spain, the First Crusade, etc.). So, the underlying premise is that the destruction of the temples was an injustice, a most unbiblical whim.
Theologically, it sits somewhere between Yom Kippur (atonement) and Holocaust Remembrance Day: a communal day of grievance.
Practically, it’s one of the most severe fasts: no food, water, bathing, leather shoes, smiling, greeting people, or Torah study except for mournful passages. Some Jews visit the Western Wall (which isn’t a remnant of the Temple at all) and leave folded scraps of paper with petitions inside the cracks.
The Western Wall is an idol commemorating what Christ ultimately destroyed, and therefore should not be mourned by Christians. Additionally, the practice of praying at the Western Wall legitimizes false religions and their holy sites. Christ will return and destroy all idols, including the ones set up by the Jews and Muslims.
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I think I’m going to start celebrating Tisha B’Av as a joyful celebration of Christ’s destruction of the temple of the pagan heretics. We all should. We should do reenactments of the destruction of the temple. Build a temple and then stomp on it and shout “Christ is King.”
Stomping on the temple is a bit much, since it was something built to worship the True God originally. But it was God’s will for it to be destroyed, and the Jews of Jerusalem had it coming, and the destruction of the temple marked something worth celebrating, as it was the dawn of an era when Christianity was completely freed from Judaism. And the temple had been hijacked by people who did not love Jesus at all, and its destruction was a triumph over evil.