Fast Days

תעניות

The communal fasts and their meaning.

128 lessons

• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 4: Tannis Perek Gimel Mishnah DalidMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Siyum of Maseches SanhedrinOrach Chayim - Mishnah Berurah · Miscellaneous
• Chapter 1 - Part 7 - Jerusalem Remembers the Days of Her Affliction - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 19 - The Night Prayer and the Gates of Tears - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 24 - The Beginning of the Siege of Jerusalem - Part 1Sefer Yechezkel · ספר יחזקאל
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 8: Megillas Tannis and Forbidden Days of FastingMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 3: The Six Additional BrachosMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Chapter 1 - Part 11 - Sighing, Seeking BreadMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 14 - The Prophecy of Drought and the Prayer for Rain - Part 2Sefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 1 - The Prophecy of the Locusts and the Famine - Part IISefer Yoel · ספר יואל
• Chapter 58 - An Acceptable Fast and the Delight of Shabbat - Part IISefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• 11 Adar IIHayom Yom · Adar II
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 8: Choni HaMe'agel and the RainMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Chapter 10 - The Angel's Revelation at the TigrisSefer Daniel · ספר דניאל
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 9: Taanis Perek Beis, Mishne TesMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Chapter 25 - The Exile of Tzidkiyahu, Nevuchadnezzar and Nevuzaradan Destroy the Beit HaMikdash, the Murder of Gedalyah - Part 2Sefer Melachim B · ספר מלכים ב
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 1: The Order of Fast DaysMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Chapter 7 - The Question of the FastsSefer Zecharya · ספר זכריה
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 4: The Concluding Berachos of the Fast Day TefillahMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 3: The Mamados and the Reading of Maaseh BereshitMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 7: Mishnah on Restrictions During the Week of TishvavMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 9: When Rain Falls During a FastMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• 17 TammuzHayom Yom · Tammuz
• Taanis Chapter 1, Mishnah 4: The First FastsMishnah Taanit · Chapter 1
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 3: A Severe Situation in One Area but Not AnotherMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Chapter 2 - Part 22 - None Escaped or SurvivedMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 15 - The Removal of Mighty Ones and the Appointed Time of RuinMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 1: Tannis Perek Dalid, Mishnah AlephMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 2: Rain That Falls InsufficientlyMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Pesachim Chapter 4, Mishnah 5: Working on Tisha B'Av by local customMishnah Pesachim · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 1: The Order of the Fast DaysMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 6: Fasts Decreed Over Warning SignsMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Siman 686, Se'if 2 · The Basis of the Halachah: A Fast That Is Not an ObligationOrach Chayim - Mishnah Berurah · שיעורי יעקב שמואל שפיגל
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 6: Fasting Obligations of the KohanimMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 5: The Fast Day BlessingsMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Siman 686, Se'if 2 · The problem with the name "Taanis Esther"Orach Chayim - Mishnah Berurah · שיעורי יעקב שמואל שפיגל
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 6: The Fasts of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of AvMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 1, Mishnah 1: Mentioning the Gevurus HashamimMishnah Taanit · Chapter 1
• Taanis Chapter 1, Mishnah 6: The Escalating Fasts for RainMishnah Taanit · Chapter 1
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 5: When to Blow the ShofarMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Rosh Hashanah Chapter 3, Mishnah 4: Blowing on Fast DaysMishnah Rosh Hashanah · Chapter 3
• 9 Menachem AvHayom Yom · Menachem Av
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 2: The Prayer of the Fast DaysMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 1, Mishnah 5: Mishnah on the Fasts of KislevMishnah Taanit · Chapter 1
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 10: Public fasts on Rosh Chodesh Chanukah and PurimMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 1, Mishnah 7: Tannis Perek Aleph Mishnah ZayinMishnah Taanit · Chapter 1
• Yoma Chapter 8, Mishnah 4: Chinuch of Children in Fasting on Yom KippurMishnah Yoma · Chapter 8
• Taanis Chapter 3, Mishnah 7: Masrian on ShabbosMishnah Taanit · Chapter 3
• Chapter 1 - Part 1 - How Lonely Sits the City - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• 22 Menachem AvHayom Yom · Menachem Av
• Yoma Chapter 8, Mishnah 5: Feeding a Pregnant Woman and an Ill Person on Yom KippurMishnah Yoma · Chapter 8
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 8: Tu B'Av and Yom Kippur (Taanis 4:8)Mishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 1, Mishnah 3: When We Begin Requesting RainMishnah Taanit · Chapter 1
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 4: Maamados on Days with Special KorbanosMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Taanis Chapter 2, Mishnah 7: Anshe Mishmar and Anshe Beis AvMishnah Taanit · Chapter 2
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 5: The Times of the Korban EitzimMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Megillah Chapter 3, Mishnah 6: Torah Readings for HolidaysMishnah Megillah · Chapter 3
• 15 Menachem AvHayom Yom · Menachem Av
• 8 ShevatHayom Yom · Shevat
• 10 TevetHayom Yom · Tevet
• Sotah Chapter 9, Mishnah 14: Decrees from the Wars Against YerushalayimMishnah Sotah · Chapter 9
• 21 TammuzHayom Yom · Tammuz
• Chapter 7 - Israel Returns, and Hashem Confounds the PhilistinesSefer Shmuel A · ספר שמואל א
• Chapter 8 - Those Who Ascended with Ezra and Their FastSefer Ezra · ספר עזרא
• Chapter 25 - The Exile of Tzidkiyahu, Nevuchadnetzar and Nevuzaradan Destroy the Beit HaMikdash, the Killing of Gedaliah - Part 1Sefer Melachim B · ספר מלכים ב
• Chapter 21 - The Vengeance of the Givonim and the Eulogy for Shaul - Part 2Sefer Shmuel B · ספר שמואל ב
• Chapter 58 - The Desired Fast and the Delight of Shabbat - Part 3Sefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• Chapter 9 - If Only I Were in the Wilderness - Part IISefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 58 - An Acceptable Fast and the Delight of Shabbat - Part 1Sefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• Chapter 2 - Blowing the Shofar and Repentance - Part 1Sefer Yoel · ספר יואל
• Chapter 14 - The Prophecy of Drought and the Prayer for Rain - Part 1Sefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 20 - The War of Moab, Ammon, and Seir - Part 1Divrei HaYamim B · דברי הימים ב
• Chapter 36 - The Burning of the Scroll and Megillat EichahSefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 3 - The Repentance of the People of NinevehSefer Yona · ספר יונה
• Chapter 52 - The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Exile of TzidkiyahuSefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 8 - Exhuming Bones from Their Graves - Part 2Sefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 6 - Siege and the Warning of Destruction - Part 2Sefer Yirmiyahu · ספר ירמיהו
• Chapter 79 - He Poured Out His Wrath on Wood - Part 1Sefer Tehillim · ספר תהילים
• Chapter 1 - Part 4 - The Roads of Zion MournMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Eicha Introduction - Jeremiah Chapter 36 - The Writing and Burning of the ScrollMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 11 - The Lamenter's Tears and the Hunger of InfantsMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 3 - Verses 1-33 - I Am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 5 - Verses 1-11 - Remember, Hashem, What Has Befallen Us - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 12 - May It Not Befall You, All You Who Pass ByMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 3 - Judah Went into Exile from Affliction - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 15 - The Astonishment of the PassersbyMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 21 - The Slain in the Streets of JerusalemMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 2 - She Weeps Bitterly in the Night - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 3 - Verses 34-63 - Let Us Search and Examine Our Ways and Return - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 2 - She Weeps Bitterly in the Night - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 16 - The Enemies' Malicious JoyMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 20 - See, Hashem, to Whom You Have Done This - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 5 - Verses 12-22 - Turn Us Back to You, Hashem, and We Shall Return - Part 3Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 3 - Judah Has Gone into Exile from Affliction - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 13 - From on High He Sent FireMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 6 - The Stripping of the Tabernacle and the Cessation of FestivalsMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 9 - Fasting, Confession, and the Prayer of the Levites - Part 1Sefer Nechemya · ספר נחמיה
• Chapter 1 - The Prophecy of Locusts and Famine - Part 1Sefer Yoel · ספר יואל
• Chapter 9 - Daniel's Prayer and the Seventy Weeks - Part 1Sefer Daniel · ספר דניאל
• Siman 694, Se'if 1 · Background: the Midrash that Israel's shekalim came firstOrach Chayim - Mishnah Berurah · שיעורי יעקב שמואל שפיגל
• Chapter 47 - The Fall of the Daughter of BabylonSefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• Chapter 61 - The Spirit of Hashem to Bring Good Tidings to the Humble - Part 1Sefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• Rosh Hashanah Chapter 1, Mishnah 3: Rosh Hashanah Perek Alef, Mishneh GimelMishnah Rosh Hashanah · Chapter 1
• Chapter 4 - The Cows of Bashan and the Punishments - Part 2Sefer Amos · ספר עמוס
• Chapter 17 - Eliyahu Decrees a Famine, Blesses the Jar of Flour and Oil, Revives the Son of the Woman of Tzarfat - Part 1Sefer Melachim A · ספר מלכים א
• Chapter 5 - Eliphaz and the Purpose of Suffering - Part 2Sefer Iyov · ספר איוב
• Kerisos Chapter 5, Mishnah 8: Chelev, Nosar, and Joint Chatas OfferingsMishnah Kerisos · Chapter 5
• Chapter 1 - Part 5 - Her Foes Have Become the Head - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Megillah Chapter 1, Mishnah 4: Reading the Megillah in Adar Rishon versus Adar SheniMishnah Megillah · Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 - Part 18 - The Cry of the HeartMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 17 - Spreading Hands with No Comforter - Part 2Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Avos Chapter 2, Mishnah 5: Hillel and the Trait of AnavahMishnah Avos · Chapter 2
• Chapter 2 - Shofar Blasts and Repentance - Part 2Sefer Yoel · ספר יואל
• Chapter 46 - Bel Bows Down and the Degradation of Idols - Part 2Sefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• Shabbos Chapter 9, Mishnah 4: Anointing on Yom KippurMishnah Shabbos · Chapter 9
• Chapter 5 - Lamentation over the House of Israel - Part 3Sefer Amos · ספר עמוס
• Chapter 1 - Part 16 - Weeping Over the Distant ComforterMegillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 1 - Part 17 - Outstretched Hands with None to Comfort - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 3 - Verses 34-63 - Let Us Search Our Ways and Return - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 2 - Part 20 - See, Hashem, to Whom You Have Done This - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 10 - Verses 10-15 - Blunt Iron and Foolishness - Part 1Kohelet · קהלת
• Chapter 3 - Verses 1-33 - I Am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction - Part 3Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 66 - The Heavens Are My Throne and the Book's Conclusion - Part 2Sefer Yeshayahu · ספר ישעיהו
• Megillah Chapter 1, Mishnah 3: The Large City and the Days of ReadingMishnah Megillah · Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 - Part 13 - No Comfort for the Ruin - Part 1Megillat Eicha · מגילת איכה
• Chapter 32 - Confession and Forgiveness of Iniquity - Part 1Sefer Tehillim · ספר תהילים
• Taanis Chapter 4, Mishnah 2: The Ma'amadosMishnah Taanit · Chapter 4
• Megillah Chapter 3, Mishnah 4: The Four Parshiyot and Special ReadingsMishnah Megillah · Chapter 3