Read more about what happened on this day in our previous post HERE

The month of Tevet marks the darkest time during the year, physically and spiritually. The sages teach us to be careful during the hotspots of this cycle - not to get aggravated, not to start fights, to keep a low profile, and not to set out on daring and dangerous endeavours. The 10th of Tevet marks the beginning of the 2.5-year destruction cycle, when the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar began the final stage of Jerusalem's destruction with its fateful culmination on the 9th