Besides the siege of Yerushalayim, two other events occurred in Tevet – the translation of the Torah into Greek and the death of Ezra HaSofer. Why do we fast for Ezra and nobody else and what was the tragedy of the translation of the Torah – Yehoshua translated the Torah into 70 languages? Is there a common denominator among these three tragedies?
Recorded at OU Israel’s L’Ayla Rosh Chodesh Women’s Event