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  1. Harel13

    Apostumus who burned the Torah

    A famous mishna states that five significant events occurred to our forefathers on the 17th of Tammuz and five on the 9th of Av. One of the five of the 17th of Tammuz is "Apostumus burned the Torah [scroll]". To this day, this event has yet to be properly identified and there are many different...
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  2. Ruh

    Break fast when night appears and make it when dawn appears

    [002:187] Permitted to you, on the night of the fasts, is the approach to your wives. They are your garments and ye are their garments. God knoweth what ye used to do secretly among yourselves; but He turned to you and forgave you; so now associate with them, and seek what God Hath ordained for...
  3. Cordoba

    Why Do Muslims Fast?

    Why on earth would anyone willingly choose to fast from dawn to sunset for a whole month? Isn’t that what people who are not Muslim must be thinking? Yet, that is precisely what Muslims do every Ramadan. They abstain from food and drink, from smoking cigarettes, from sexual relations with...
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