Upon successful completion of the learning experience, students will be able to: define the process of destruction (“churban”) during the Three Weeks and identify how the destruction experienced during the Three Weeks symbolically parallels the undoing of creation; illustrate the significance of the Sin of the Golden Calf, the tragedy of Shattering the Luchos and the Sin of the Spies as they relate to the Three Weeks in particular and Jewish History as a whole; identify the unifying themes of the tragedies experienced during the Three Weeks; describe how the faculties of seeing and hearing relate, respectively, to the months of Tammuz and Av and illustrate the unique relationship between weeping and the Sin of the Spies; describe how the customs of mourning during the Three Weeks encourage and foster self-awareness and character change; differentiate between the destruction of the First and Second Beis HaMikdash, and illustrate how the process of destruction also carries within it the potential for rebuilding.