The Fast Day of the 17th Day of Tammuz begins Today!
July 3, 2007
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You might find it interesting to take the time to locate the occupation zones of the ancient enemies mentioned in old Psalm 83, and marking the total area it covers. Please compare it with the same area currently occupied by the enemy’s descendants surround ing Israel
in these zones today. History is often prophetically repetitive!
An Appropriate Psalm for Israel’s 2007 17th Day of Tammuz Situation!
Psalm 83 – Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
[2] For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. [3] They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
[4] They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
[5] For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: [6] The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; [7] Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; [8] Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. [9] Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: [10] Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. [11] Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: [12] Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. [13] O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
[14] As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; [15] So persecute them with thy tempest, and make
them afraid with thy storm. [16] Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord. [17] Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: [18] That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all
the earth.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Jews Prepare to Fast on 17th Day of Tammuz
17 Tammuz 5767, 03 July 07 07:21
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) The Three Weeks of gradually-increasing mourning over the destruction of the Holy Temples and Israel’s exile begin Tuesday. It begins with the fast day of the 17th day of Tammuz, the day on which Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces breached the walls of Jerusalem after many months of siege on their way to destroying the holy site. It ends on the 9th of Av – Tisha B’Av – the date on which both the First and Second Temples were destroyed, roughly 2,500 and 2,000 years ago, respectively.
The 17th of Tammuz is also the date on which Moses, having descended Mount Sinai and seeing the people sinning with the Golden Calf, broke the first set of Ten Commandments.
During the First Temple Era, the priests were forced on this day – a year before the Temple’s destruction – to stop offering the daily sacrifice due to the shortage of sheep.
In addition, the Talmud tells us, on this date some decades earlier, the evil King Menasheh had an idol placed in the Temple’ s Holy Sanctuary.
Later, during Second Temple times, a Roman general placed an idol in the same place and publicly burned
the Torah.
In honor of the day, and in view of the difficult situation Israel faces, the Chief Rabbinate issued the following call:
It is a time of trouble for Israel: Israel’s enemies sound off and lift their heads in arrogance and conceit, opening their mouths wide with threats and terrorization. They boast of their desire to destroy the Jews; “they have consulted together with one another and made a pact against G-d… saying, Let us cut off Israel” (Psalms 83), and wish to war with us even as we are geared for peace.
We are in dire need of G-d’s mercy and salvation; we have none on whom to lean except for our Father in Heaven. We must redouble our Torah study and observance of the Torah’s commandments, with even greater strength and greater devotion – for “they come with chariots and horses, but we come calling in the Name of G-d” (Psalms 20).
We therefore hereby call upon the Nation of G-d to gather in synagogues on Tuesday, the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, an hour and a half before the afternoon Mincha prayer, for the recitation of selichot [penitential prayers] and Psalms. Let us cry out with all our strength, and call to our G-d and the G-d of our fathers from the depths of our heart – for “G-d is close to all who call upon Him in truth” (Psalms 145).
May our cries arise before Him, and may G-d arise from His chair of strict justice and sit upon the chair of mercy. May He guide and lead us with compassion and kindness, for G-d’s salvation can come in the blink of an eye. And may we see the fulfillment of this verse: “I will give peace in the Land, and you will lie down to sleep without fear… and no sword will pass through your Land.” May this occur speedily in our days, Amen.
Signed and sealed: Shlomo Moshe Amar, the Rishon LeTzion, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel
Yona Metzger, the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel
End of Arutz Sheva Article
Romans 9:25-29 – As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. [26] And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
[27] Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: [28] For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. [29] And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Romans 11:26,27 – And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
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