Fast of the Tenth of Teves – עשרה בטבת is observed on Tuesday, January 7 2020
Fast Begins: 6:07 A.M.
Fast Ends: 5:37 P.M.
The fast commemorates three calamities that occurred during Jewish history on the tenth of Teves and the two days preceding it:
- The siege of the First Temple by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians.
- The translation of the Torah into Greek, ordered by Egyptian King Ptolemy, during the Second Temple period.
- The death of Ezra the Scribe, great Jewish leader who returned the Jewish people to Israel following the Babylonian exile.
