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10th of Tevet Fast
10th of Tevet Fast, this year will be on Tuesday, January 6, 2009. A
Fast Day to remember the day when the Babylonians first laid siege
to Jerusalem 2,500 years ago, beginning a long line of disasters for the Jewish people.
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Jewish Holidays
The Fast of 17th of Tamuz
The Seventeenth of Tammuz (Hebrew: Shiv'ah
Asar b'Tammuz) is a minor Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls
of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple.
It falls on the seventeenth day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz and marks the
beginning of the three-week mourning period leading up to Tisha B'Av.
















