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The 17th of Tamuz
articles on The 17th of Tamuz
The Complacency Crisis
Why the 17th of Tammuz is not about mourning ancient history—it's a searing psychological wake-up call to look at who we are toda
The Anatomy of a Collapse
From a silent siege to total exile: Inside the chronological chain reaction of the four fasts, and the psychological fractures that caused our walls to fall.
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?
The Fast of 17th of Tamuz - Why?
What happened on the seventeenth of Tammuz, and why are these events so tragic?
Lessons on The 17th of Tamuz
What's Fasting Got to Do With It?
A day of fasting in the Jewish calendar – such as this Sunday's Fast of Tammuz – is not one of dieting, but rather a day of introspection and teshuva (contrition and remorse). We are not fasting for something far-removed from ourselves, but rather for our situation this very day.
Lessons
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Rabbis on The 17th of Tamuz
