Fast of Tevet

Definitions of Fast of Tevet
  1. noun
    (Judaism) a minor fast day on Tevet 10 commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem and has also been proclaimed a memorial day for the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust
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    minor fast day
    one of five minor fast days on the Jewish calendar
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