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Yom Kippur in Tehran

It is just after dawn on October 2, 2014—two days before the start of Yom Kippur—and Tehran’s notoriously bad traffic is already clogging the roads,

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We need this as a fridge magnet 😂⁠
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BTW... today the Fast of Gedaliah (Tzom Gedaliah in Hebrew), the first fast day of the new year #5783⁠
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WHO is Gedaliah⁉️⁠
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Gedaliah, the last Jewish ruler in ancient Israel for centuries until the time of the Hasmoneans, ruled ancient Judah after the Babylonian Empire destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem. ⁠
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Gedaliah was a righteous Jew who governed the land of ancient Judah after the Babylonian Empire destroyed the First Temple in Jerusalem. Ishmael Ben Nethaniah, a descendant of the David line, assassinated Gedaliah, making him the last Jewish ruler in ancient Israel for centuries until the time of the Hasmoneans. ⁠
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Would Ishmael kill the remaining Jews? Fleeing to Egypt, they didn’t wait to find out. ⁠
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Nu, WHY do we fast⁉️ ⁠
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In the Talmud tractate Rosh Hashanah, the fast is meant “to establish that the death of the righteous (Gedaliah) is likened to the burning of the House of God (the destruction of the First Temple)."⁠
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[Via jh_swanson/twitter]⁠ ...

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