When we recognize God’s ultimate unity, His presence at the root and core of every aspect of creation, we see no darkness, ...

The Mishna in Taanit 29a teaches us ,מִשֶּׁנִּכְנַס אָב, מְמַעֲטִין בְּשִׂמְחָה with the arrival of the month of Av, one decreases happiness.

Tosephta Taanit 4:6 and the Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 29a, try to resolve the apparent discrepancies by stating that the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians began on the seventh ...

5 Melachim II 25:8,9. 6 Yirmiyahu 52:10. 7 Taanit 29a. 8 Taanit 29a. 9 Josephus, Wars of the Jews 6:4:5. 10 Taanit 29a; Tosfot, Megilla 5b s.v. Ubikesh. 11 Taanit 29a; OC 558:1. 12 Birkei Yosef ...

However, the tenth is the date observed today based on another opinion, in Taanit 29A, that it’s an unlucky day when bad things happen. As with all minor Jewish fast days, the Tenth of Tevet ...