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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 549
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Orach Chayim Siman 549 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 2 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.
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<b>להתענות ד' תעניתים. ובו ב סעיפים:</b><br>חייבים להתענו' בתשעה באב ובשבעה עשר בתמוז ובג' בתשרי ובעשרה בטבת מפני דברים הרעים שאירעו בהם:
We are required to fast on the 9th of Av, [and] on the 17th of Tammuz, and on the 3rd of Tishrei, and on the 10th of Teves because of the bad occurrences that occurred on those [days].
אף על גב דכתיב בקרא בחדש הרביעי בתשעה לחודש הובקעה העיר אין מתענין בט' בו אלא בי"ז בו מפני שאף על פי שבראשונה הובקעה בט' בו כיון שבשניה הובקעה בי"ז בו תקנו להתענות בי"ז בו משום דחורבן בית שני חמיר לן:
Even though it is written in the verse (Jeremiah 39:2) "[During the eleventh year [of the reign] of Tzidkiyahu] in the fourth month [i.e., Tammuz], on the ninth day of the month, the city was crossed", we do not fast on the 9th day of that [month], rather on the 17th of that [month] -- since, despite the fact that originally (i.e.; the First Temple) [the city of Jerusalem] was breached on the 9th of that [month] -- since the second time (i.e.; the Second Temple) [the city] was breached on the 17th of that [month], [the sages] decreed a fast on the 17th of that [month] because the destruction of the Second Temple was stronger than it (i.e; the destruction of the First Temple).
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