BH I love this: Tomorrow, as a majority of the world celebrates their new year, HaShem keeps us grounded. On the 10th of Tevet, we have a day fast.... Yes.... a fast, for mourning and repentance.... No food or drink from sunrise to sunset -or as soon as one sees three medium sized stars in the sky. Indeed, the 10th of Tevet is this year on January 1, 2015... In shul, selichot and other prayers are added. On the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later—on 9 Tammuz 3338—the city walls were breached, and on 9 Av of that year the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people, WE, were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years. More recently, 10 Tevet was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown. An ancient Jewish custom, which was revived by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, is to deliver words of inspiration that arouse the soul to repent on fast days. Time to reflect. Time to think. Time to pray for more Emunah....
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