This year Tammuz, 17 drops out on July, 13. The post begins at night with 12 for July, 13. Also comes to an end approximately in day.
Tzom Tammuz - one of four posts established in memory of destruction of the Temple, alongside with Gedals the Post, the Tenth Taveta and the Ninth Ava.
Navuhodonosor began blockade of Jerusalem, 17 Tamuz. His soldiers have broken a city wall, and three weeks later, 9 Ava, has come a tragic outcome of events: the Temple has been set fire.
In a history of Jewish people the Seventeenth Tamuz - day of disasters. In the Talmud, in treatise Taanit, five disasters happened in this day are listed:
- moshe has broken Tables of a precept at a kind of the gold body made by ancient Jews in desert.
- during blockade of Jerusalem (it agrees of Rambam, before destruction of the First Temple) this day bringing a victim "tamid" has stopped because it was impossible to provide delivery of sacrificial animals, and it was an attribute of approaching accident.
- as it is told in book Ermeyah, 9-th Tamuz during blockade of Jerusalem during an epoch of the First Temple, have been broken a city wall, and during an epoch of the Second Temple the same happened the Seventeenth Tamuz.
- apastomos, the deputy of tsar Antioh, has burnt out a roll a Torah, having understood, that the most true way to enthral Jews - to strike their spiritual property; burning of a Torah became the beginning of persecutions on Jewish people and one of the main reasons of revolt Маккавеев.
- this day the statue of an idol set up. According to one version, it happened during an epoch of the Second Temple and too was one of acts Apostomos; according to another (so it is told in the Jerusalem Talmud), it was made by tsar of Judea Mehnashe who corrected during an epoch of the First Temple and "has become famous" for that " has flooded Jerusalem with innocent blood " and was the idolater who has surpassed all predecessors.
This post begins with sunrise and comes to an end with occurrence of stars in the sky, and is carried out the same as also all public posts.