Why do we fast on the 10th of Tevet? The secret behind the fast - Rabbi Alon Anava
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commemorating [Music] day because on the 10th of the vet it was Nebuchadnezzar that started the see Johnny OSHA line if you notice especially I wanted to point it out while we were praying we we mentioned three things that happen around this time on the eighth day of the month of David the Torah was translated to Greece the Greek which I know a lot of people say okay so what's the big deal so what if it was changed to translate it to Greek so what so there's other shame we'll have time we'll talk a little bit about that what does it mean why it's so bad that it was translated to Greece the short version is that mainly it was translated to Greece in order to for the Greeks to know our belief to be able to know how to disqualify it nevertheless later on if we'll have time we'll talk a little bit wise its wife was considered so bad that it was translated to Greece how disagree so Greek Greek Greek this is the KSR so it was tragedy to Greek now in the ninth day of tivitz Ezra's fulfill a passed away as I saw failure he was the one of the leader leader rabbis in the generation when they came back from Persia started building the better Mukesh and there was a big morning that he died and of course the tenth day of the event that's when we knew her nexor came and surrounded the ocean i mostarda see now there is a place in the prophets then the Prophet Zechariah says qualm of our ships of Accords and he's mentioning that there are four fasts the fast on the third there on the fourth
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