If I had hair, this stationary fantasy box-puzzle adventure would make me pull it out. In a good way. There's a story of gods at strife interspersed between puzzles, with the titular Tammuz seemingly ...

The minor fast on the 17th of Tammuz lasts just from sunrise to sunset. Only eating and drinking are prohibited. The 17th of Tammuz commemorates the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans ...

Thursday marks the fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, a day commemorating several tragedies in Jewish history and the start of a mourning period known as the Three Weeks when many Jews ...

Historically, Tammuz is marked by a theme of avodah zarah—idol worship— and national tragedy. The creation and celebration of the golden calf (Shemot 32) occurred during Tammuz, as did the breaching ...

The fast of the 17th of Tammuz is one of the four fixed fasts in the Hebrew calendar connected to the destruction of the Temple. It takes place about three weeks before the fast of Tisha B'Av and ...

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Adina Ellis is a graduate of the Matan Bellows Eshkolot Educators Institute. She has been teaching Tanakh and machshava over the last two decades, initially on college campuses and in Hebrew Schools ...

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The 17th of Tammuz is a fast day commemorating the fall of Jerusalem, prior to the destruction of the Holy Temple. This also marks the beginning of a 3-week national period of mourning, leading up to ...

Tammuz (Sumerian Dumuzi or Dumuzid, meaning roughly “the good/flawless young one”) was an ancient Mesopotamian deity, primarily a god of shepherds, fertility, and vegetation. He embodied the ...