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The Three Weeks or Bein ha-Metzarim (Hebrew: בין המצרים, "Between the Straits", cf "dire straits") is a period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the first and second Jewish Temples. The Three Weeks start on the seventeenth day of the Jewish month of Tammuz—the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz—and end on the ninth day of ...
During the entire Three Weeks, Ashkenazi Jews refrain from making weddings, playing or listening to music, and shaving or taking haircuts. Sephardi Jews begin these mourning observances on Rosh Chodesh Av, [3] although Sephardi Jews generally do not hold weddings at all during the Three Weeks because they are an inauspicious time. [6]
3 Tammuz June 13, 2021 3 Tammuz: Chabad sect only 12-13 Tammuz June 22–23, 2021 12-13 Tammuz: Chabad sect only 17 Tammuz June 27, 2021 Seventeenth of Tammuz: Can be moved to avoid interfering with Shabbat. Public holiday in Israel. 17 Tammuz - 9 Av June 27-July 18, 2021 The Three Weeks: 29 Tammuz July 9, 2021 Jabotinsky Day: Public holiday in ...
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[2] [3] It falls on the 17th day of the fourth Hebrew month of Tammuz and marks the beginning of The Three Weeks, a mourning period leading up to Tisha B'Av. [4] The day also traditionally commemorates the destruction of the two tablets of the Ten Commandments and other historical calamities that befell the Jewish people on the same date. [2]
17 Tammuz – Seventeenth of Tammuz – is a fast day from 1 hour before sunrise to sundown in remembrance of Jerusalem's walls being breached. 17 Tammuz is the beginning of The Three Weeks, in which Jews follow similar customs as the ones followed during the Omer from the day following Passover until the culmination of the mourning for the death of the students of Rabbi Akiva (the 33rd day of ...
Shabbat Nachamu ("Sabbath [of] comfort/ing) takes its name from the haftarah from Isaiah in the Book of Isaiah 40:1-26 that speaks of "comforting" the Jewish people for their suffering. It is the first of seven haftarot of consolation leading up to the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It occurs on the Shabbat following Tisha B'Av ...
Some Sephardic Jewish families begin the period of mourning from the first day of the Hebrew month of Iyar and continue for 33 days until the third of Sivan. The custom among Jerusalemites ( minhag Yerushalmi ) is to follow the mourning practices during the entire Counting of the Omer, save for the day of Lag BaOmer and the last three days of ...