Beit Midrash Shabbat and Holidays The Three Weeks

The 17th of Tamuz

Sivan 5768 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Mourning the Destruction Today
The Seventeenth of Tammuz was supposed to be the day on which the Tablets of the Covenant were received and given to Israel, and the Ninth of Av was the day when the Spies would to return from the Land of Israel and proclaim, “The land is very good!”
The 17th of Tamuz
5764 | Rabbi Gideon Weitzman
Shivah Asar B’Tammuz Breaking the Tablets, Mending the Tablets
The Mishnah teaches us that the tablets were broken on the 17th of Tamuz as a result of the building of the Golden Calf. Rav Kook explains that if we understand the essence of idolatry we can find a way to mend the broken tablets.
The 17th of Tamuz
tamoz 5761 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
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.
The 17th of Tamuz Various Subjects
5764 | Rabbi Yaakov Ariel
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 17th of Tamuz
Tamuz 5758 | Rabbi Eliyahu Brin
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 17th of Tamuz
Tamuz, 1561 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
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.
The 17th of Tamuz

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