[Avodah] The Many Facets of Asarah B'Teves

[Prof. L. Levine]

>From https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/5324

Although to many the only notable aspect of the upcoming fast of Asarah B’Teves (the 10th of Teves) is that it is by far the shortest fast day in the Jewish calendar for anyone in the Northern Hemisphere (my heartfelt sympathies to the South Americans, So’Africans, Aussies, and Kiwis), nonetheless, the Fast of AsarahB’Teves is quite unique. For example, exclusive to this fast is that it is the only one that we do actually observe as a fast on a Friday[1]<https://ohr.edu/5324#_edn1>. Even TishaB’Av, which commemorates the actual destructions of our BateiHaMikdash, gets pushed off. Yet, obviously, to maintain this distinction of being the only Fast Day that we actually do observe on Friday, there must be much more to the Fast of AsarahB’Teves than meets the eye. In turns out that Asarah B’Teves has several exceptional characteristics that are not found in any other fast day.

See the above URL for a very comprehensive discussion of these issues by Rabbi Yehuda Spitz.

Professor Yitzchok Levine

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