{"id":358,"count":42,"description":"The Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz marks the beginning of the 3 weeks.  It is a sad day on the Jewish calendar when, among other events, Moshe came down from Har Sinai and Broke the Luchot after seeing the Jews worship the Egel HaZahav, the Kohanim stopped offering the korban tamid (daily sacrifice) , an idol was placed in the Beit HaMikdash, Apostomos publicly burned the Torah, and the walls of Jerusalem were breached after a long siege.","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/","name":"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz","slug":"fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fast of Shiva Asar B&#039;Tammuz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Shiva Asar B&#039;Tammuz the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. It also begins the 3-week period of mourning that culminates in Tisha B&#039;Av\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fast of Shiva Asar B&#039;Tammuz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Shiva Asar B&#039;Tammuz the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. It also begins the 3-week period of mourning that culminates in Tisha B&#039;Av\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jewish Holidays\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"CollectionPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/\",\"name\":\"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/#website\"},\"description\":\"On Shiva Asar B'Tammuz the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. It also begins the 3-week period of mourning that culminates in Tisha B'Av\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/\",\"name\":\"Jewish Holidays\",\"description\":\"Learn about Jewish holidays\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz","description":"On Shiva Asar B'Tammuz the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. It also begins the 3-week period of mourning that culminates in Tisha B'Av","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz","og_description":"On Shiva Asar B'Tammuz the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. It also begins the 3-week period of mourning that culminates in Tisha B'Av","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/","og_site_name":"Jewish Holidays","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/","name":"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/#website"},"description":"On Shiva Asar B'Tammuz the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem. It also begins the 3-week period of mourning that culminates in Tisha B'Av","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/category\/fast-of-shiva-asar-btammuz\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fast of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/","name":"Jewish Holidays","description":"Learn about Jewish holidays","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}