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The fast of the 17th of Tamuz - What you need to know! - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Rabbi Alon Anava

The fast of the 17th of Tamuz - What you need to know! - Rabbi Alon Anava

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[Music] first we're gonna start with just a little bit going through what we need to know for Sunday's Sundays the 17th of demos and our sages have instructed us for Rabbinical fasts we have a fast from the Torah which is of course young people and then we have for binnacle fasts that we have to fast them and needless to say that there are three of them that are half a day we have the third of Tishrei zombie Dahlia and that we fast because after the destruction of the temple there was a certain individual his name was Gedaliah banaji come and he was the so to say the one of the last was remaining after the destruction and then afterward the book admits he left in a dirty cell and then at some point he was a killed he was murdered and that was the start of the beginning of all the the the sages of so to say dying and then the flame of the nation was diminishing the second day fast is the tenth of the vet which that's the time when the king of Nebuchadnezzar the king of a Bevelle he sieged yerushalaim and then of course brought the destruction of the temple and then the third fast is you design with the moves which we're going to talk about it very soon what happened and then of course the fourth one is the Shabbat which is a full fast now on till the 17th of the moons happen five major disasters major problems that that's why we fast the first and most important is the the tablets broke when Moshe Rabbeinu came down from the mountains then on the 17th of Tammuz that's when he came down and the first set of tablets they broke the second thing they

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  1. 0:03[Music] first we're gonna start with just a little bit going through what we need to
  2. 2:10we used to have a certain sacrifice it's called caponata mead and and that's the time
  3. 4:54talk in the next class why there are many disasters that we don't commemorate and then
  4. 7:32the stars go out since it's summer is gonna be a long fast we're gonna hear
  5. 10:08don't I get a free ticket on the only wife but again pregnant women are breastfeeding
  6. 12:52bagel in the morning for a dollar and so so you make your own calculation how
  7. 15:30asking question what type of music can I not hear or can I hear music for
  8. 18:13prepare food the fast finishes at the end if you can highly highly recommend it and
  9. 20:51the torah something very very special happen that time is that all the sick people got
  10. 23:34challenges and problems they're actually holding the most potential to the highest light so when things

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