Five things happened to our ancestors of the 17 th of Tammuz and five things happened on the 9 th day of Av. On the 17 th of Tammuz the tablets of the law were broken, the daily temple sacrifice was…
Shaul Magid
Shaul Magid teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School, is a senior research fellow at The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, and the rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. His latest book is The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance.
