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Why do we fast on the tenth of Tevet?
 

 

On the 10th of Tevet in the year 425 b.c.e. the city of Jerusalem was besieged. Two years later, the city walls were breached and on the ninth of the month of Av, the first Holy Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. To commemorate the beginning of the destruction of the Holy Temple, we refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall on 10 Tevet (January 6 this year). We add special prayers to our regular prayers as well.

 

 

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