by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Jul 8, 2009
The 17th of Tammuz has historically been a calamity prone day. The Mishna (Tanis 4:6) lists 5 things that happened to the Jewish nation n this day: 1) The Luchos were broken when Moshe Rabeinu descended from Har Sinai and came across the Golden Calf. (40 days after...
by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Haber | Jan 5, 2009
There are six obligatory fast days. One is biblically mandated, four were established by the later prophets (Chaggai, Zechariah and Malachi), and one is merely a widely accepted custom. The biblically mandated one is Yom Kippur. The Torah tells us: (Vayikra 16:29)...
