17th of #Tammuz #Blues#Moses #Moshe #Jerusalem

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The opening of this track, in Ari Lesser’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

When Moshe climbed up to the highest heights on the mountain for 40 days and nights, as a gift he received two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God alone. But when he came down from Mount Sinai, Moshe could hardly believe his eyes. He threw down the tablets, smashed in half, cuz the people were bowing to a golden calf. It happened on the 17th of Tammuz. That day's never the 17th of Tammuz. That day's never been a good day for the Jews, like a bruise on the year, nothing but bad news. I got those 17th of Tammuz blues. Manasseh was born of the royal seed, a direct descendant of King David. Ahaz Kiyahu was his righteous dad, but somehow Manasseh wound up bad. He filled the streets with all the blood he shed. Red omens and did sorcery instead of

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1. 0:00When Moshe climbed up to the highest heights on the mountain for 40 days and nights,…
2. 0:32the 17th of Tammuz. That day's never been a good day for the Jews, like a…
3. 1:02Red omens and did sorcery instead of praying to God. He put his idolatry right in…
4. 1:32was there that Solomon's Temple stood, and for hundreds of years it was filled with good.…
5. 2:02news. I got dough. 17th of time was blue.…

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