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Tisha B'Av and the 3 Weeks
June 29 - July 20, 201.A Major Fast Day -- remembering the day when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, not once but twice.
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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.













