[Avodah] The Unknown Days of the Jewish Calender

[Professor L. Levine]

>From https://goo.gl/NZ9BN1


This coming week, an unsuspecting person wishing to catch a minyan, who walks into a random shul in many places around the world, might be in for a surprise. After the Shemoneh Esrei prayer on Sunday there will be no Tachanun. On Monday there will be Selichos; and on Thursday there again won’t be Tachanun! Why would this be? No Tachanun generally signifies that it is a festive day[1]<https://ohr.edu/5146#_edn1>; yet, no other observances are readily noticeable. As for the reciting of Selichos on Monday, they are usually reserved for a fast day; yet no one seems to be fasting! What is going on?


See the above URL for more about this.  YL

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