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n. A minor fast day on the 10th of Tevet that commemorates King Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E., considered the beginning of the destruction of the First Temple.
Example Sentences
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"They're learning about the Warsaw ghetto uprising in school, because next week is Asara be-Tevet." (Glinert)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
עשרה בטבת asara be-tevet 'tenth of Tevet'
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
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- View More
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow
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Alternative Spellings
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