© Copyright Chabad.org · 770 Eastern Parkway Suite 405 · Brooklyn, NY 11213 Today is Tuesday, Tevet 10, 5783 · January 3, 2023 Fast of Tevet 10 Today's Laws & Customs • Fast Day Tevet 10 is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance, in remembrance of the siege of Jerusalem. We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add the Selichot and other special supplements to our prayers. (More recently, Tevet 10 was chosen to also serve as a "general kaddish day" for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.) Links: Learn about Tevet 10 Essays and Stories on the Holocaust Today in Jewish History • Siege of Jerusalem (425 BCE) On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later -- on Tammuz 17, 3338 -- the city walls were breached, and on 9 A...

© Copyright Chabad.org · 770 Eastern Parkway Suite 405 · Brooklyn, NY 11213   Tevet 10, 5783 · January 3, 2023 Today's Tanya Lesson Likutei Amarim, end of Chapter 9 AUDIO & VIDEO CLASSES     •  VIDEO CLASS: Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon   Watch • Listen   •  AUDIO CLASS: Rabbi Manis Freidman    Listen • Download MP3   אך הנה כתיב: ולאום מלאום יאמץ It is written, 1 however, “One nation shall prevail over the other nation.” The verse refers to Jacob and Esau. In terms of a Jew’s spiritual life it is understood as an allusion to the divine soul and the animal soul respectively, who are constantly warring with each other. כי הגוף נקרא עיר קטנה, וכמו ששני מלכים נלחמים על עיר אחת, שכל אחד רוצה לכבשה ולמלוך עליה For the body is called 2 a “small city.” The two souls, in relation to one’s body, are just as two kings who...