Today is Tuesday, Tevet 10, 5783 · January 3, 2023 Fast of Tevet 10
© 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...