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The Minor Fasts and Their Laws

Did Jews fast over the destruction of the First Temple when the Second Temple stood? Must pregnant and nursing women abstain from eating and drinking on minor fasts? Rabbi Eliezer Melamed addresses these and other important questions.

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Introspection on the Seventeenth of Tammuz

Fast days are occasion for introspection and repentance. After all, we are not fasting over the distant, unrelated past; we are fasting in response to our own present situation. How is it that instead of mourning we remain complacent and indifferent?

The Weak Point of the Seventeenth of Tammuz

There is a tendency, on fast days, for people to concentrate upon the calamities of the past and on the stages that led up to the destruction of the Temple. People reflect on the distant past when they aught - says the Rambam - consider the present.

The Breaking of the Tablets on the Seventeenth of Tammuz

The Tree of Knowledge contained a mixture of elements - both good and evil. This, then, was Adam's sin: He ate from the tree, and this caused existence to fall to a level whereupon there existed a mixture of both good and evil.

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17 Tammuz 5785 | 13/7/2025

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5:43 Sunrise
8:38 Kriyat Shma MGA
9:14 Kriyat Shma GRA
12:44 Chatzot (Midday)
19:51 Sunset
20:13 Tzet Hakochavim

Shabbat Pinchas

23 Tammuz 5785

Shabbat Times | Parashat Hashavua

19:09 Candle lighting
20:25 End of Shabbat
21:02 Rabeinu Tam

Fast of 17th of Tammuz

Sunday, 17 Tammuz 5785

Fast of 17th of Tammuz

4:31 Fast begins
20:13 Fast ends

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Rambam and his psak

Rabbi Daniel Kirsch

Question

Hello. I would like to clarify some details. It is well known that Rambam is often pasken like Yerushalmi and not like Bavli. But in his “Isurei Biah” 10:9 about what is “tzuras adam” Rambam quote rabbi Yochonon from Bavli (Niddah,23b) but in Yerushalmi there is opposite opinion in name of rabbi Yochonon. So why (and how) did Rambam pasken not like Yerushalmi in this case?

Answer

In general the Rambam paskens like the Babvli except for special cases such as a case that the Bavli doesn't pasken and remains in a safek and the Yerushalmi decides the halacha without a doubt (see Shach Yoreh deah 145; 1). My friend and former chavruta Harav Achikam Kashat brought different sources about this. See his article here All the best!

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