Inner Dimensions: Tammuz – Time for Transformation By Yitzchak Ginsburgh We have experienced hardship and pain, more so perhaps than any other nation. But Jewish history is anything but tragic
There are two types of study: The study of a static object, something of the past, something long dead. All that's needed for this study is cold, hard intellect.
Then there is the study of a vibrant, living being. To know it, you must live with it, be humbled before it, feel its life and spirit.
Five things happened to our forefathers on the 17th of Tammuz: the Tablets were broken, the daily offering [in the Holy Temple] was discontinued, a breach was made in the city walls, and Apostamus burned the Torah and placed an idol in the Temple