TZOM GEDALIAH

Okay, today is Tzoyim Gedalia, the fast that we have for Gedalia ben Achikam, a Gadol Hadar in the times of the Chorban-based Hamikdash.

One of the reasons why his death is such a huge thing that we fast for it is because that he was the last, you know, spark, if you could say, of the Yidden living in our town after the Chorban.

Nebuchadnezzar allowed the Jews... a little bit of a settlement in Eretz Israel, and they would pay taxes, and there was no risk of revolt.

There was such a small community.

But this was a little bit, a little bit of Yiddishkeit still in Eretz Israel.

And then when he got killed, he was assassinated.

It was the end.