Shivah Asar B’Tammuz, the seventeenth day of the month of Tammuz, commemorates the day Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon broke through the walls of Jerusalem after a long siege. Within weeks, the city and Solomon’s Temple were razed. Thus it is a day of mourning and fasting for the Jewish people.
Shivah Asar B’Tammuz signifies the start of the Three Weeks, a period of intense mourning that leads up to Tisha B’Av, the darkest day of the Jewish calendar. During these three weeks and on the day of Tisha B’Av, the Jews mourn the destruction of both Holy Temples and the periods of exile that followed.
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