Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!spuxll!mis From: mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Fast Day on January 3? Message-ID: <600@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 16:13:03 EST Article-I.D.: spuxll.600 Posted: Wed Jan 2 16:13:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 04:48:54 EST References: <236@whuxi.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 4 The fast of the 10th day of Tevet (this year on Jan. 3) commemorates when Nevuchadnetzar king of Babylon started the siege on Jerusalem. This was was the first stage of the destruction of Jerusalem. For complete details see Kings II Chapter 25.