Tammuz (Hebrew month)

Holidays in Tammuz

In Jewish history

• 3 Tammuz - Joshua stops the sun
• 3 Tammuz - Death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
• 4 Tammuz - Death of Rabbeinu Tam
• 4 Tammuz - Meir of Rothenburg imprisoned
• 5 Tammuz - Ezekiel receives his "Chariot" vision
• 6 Tammuz - Operation Entebbe
• 9 Tammuz - Jerusalem walls breached by Nebuchadnezzar II, a date observed as a fast day until the second breaching of Jerusalem's walls by the Roman Empire on the 17th of Tammuz
• 12-13 Tammuz Release of Chabad Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn from prison in Kostroma, Soviet Union; observed by Chabad Hasidim as holy day
• 15 Tammuz - Death of Chaim ibn Attar
• 17 Tammuz - golden calf offered by the Jewish people, 40 days after the giving of the Torah at Har Sinai. This is the first of the 5 national tragedies mourned on this day.
• 17 Tammuz - Smashing of the first Tablets by Moses.
• 17 Tammuz - The korban in Solomon's Temple were discontinued.
• 17 Tammuz - Walls of Jerusalem breached by the Roman army.
• 17 Tammuz The Roman general Apostomus burned the Torah and placed an idol in the Second Temple.Bar Kokhba revolt
• 21 Tammuz - Death of the Kabbalist Baal Shem Elijah Loans, grandson of Johanan Luria and Josel of Rosheim, and author of the Miklol Yofi commentary on Ecclesiastes.
• 21 Tammuz The last Remaining Jews of Yemen are captured by the Houthi Militia
• 22 Tammuz - Death of Shlomo Karlin
• 23 Tammuz - Death of Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
• 26 Tammuz - Death of Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft
• 28 Tammuz - Death of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
• 29 Tammuz - Death of Johanan HaSandlar
• 29 Tammuz - Death of Rashi
• 29 Tammuz - Death of Ze'ev Jabotinsky; secular observance by Israel as Jabotinsky Day

  In fiction

• In the story of Xenogears, Tammuz is the name of a country, named after the Hebrew month. In the official Japanese version translation, however, it was transliterated Tamuzu. This was later further changed by the translation process to "Thames" for the English version.