Word of the Month

A weekly feature of Torah Tidbits to help clarify practical and conceptual aspects of the Jewish Calendar, thereby better fulfilling the mitzva of HaChodesh HaZeh Lachem...

Here's our Eretz Yisrael, Yerushalayim, and Beit HaMikdash "scorecard" for the month of Tamuz:
9th - Breach of Jerusalem in the time of the first Beit HaMikdash.
15th - Ezra leaves Bavel on his way to Yerushalayim, a 15-day journey. (This means that half of Tamuz was spent going in the right direction, literally and figuratively.)
17th - Breach of Jerusalem during the time of the second Beit HaMikdash.
3rd - Miracle of Sun & Moon in time of Yehoshua.
17th - Sin of the Golden Calf
Tamuz has its ups & downs. But we have it within our power to reverse some of those downs by hastening the Geula with Torah & Mitzvot... and more.

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