Tzom Gedalyah, the 3rd of Tishri, falls on September 14, 2026. The fast from dawn to nightfall commemorates the assassination of Gedalya, the Babylonian appointed governor of Judah, 2 Kings 25:25. (1/3)
Gedalyah's death ended Jewish self government after the destruction of the First Temple. Zechariah 8:19 counts the fast of the seventh month among the four fasts of the exile. (2/3)
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Heinrich Graetz discusses these events in Geschichte der Israeliten (vol. 2, Leipzig 1876), available online via Frankfurt University Library's Freimann Collection of . (3/3)
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