Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 36:3

אי הכי ט"ב נמי אמר רב פפא שאני ט' באב הואיל והוכפלו בו צרות דאמר מר בט' באב חרב הבית בראשונה ובשניה ונלכדה ביתר ונחרשה העיר

[He said]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In expounding the verse from Zechariah quoted above.');">⁶</span> 'The fast of the fourth month' - this is the ninth of Tammuz, on which a breach was made in the walls of the city,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The fast of Tammuz observed nowadays on the seventeenth of the month is in commemoration of the same calamity at the Second Destruction; v. Ta'an. 26b. Supra on Deut. VI, 4 reads, 'on the seventeenth' following J. Ta'an. IV, 8 that also point in their evidence since in the absence of witnesses the New Moon is on the first time the breach was made on the seventeenth, the 'ninth' mentioned in the text being due to vz miscalculation caused by the confusion of the time, v. Tosaf. s.v. ].');">⁷</span> as it says, On the fourth month on the ninth of the month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land, and a breach was made in the city.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. LII, 6, 7.');">⁸</span>

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