A ta'anit or taynis (Biblical Hebrew תַּעֲנִית taʿaniṯ or צוֹם ṣom) is a fast in Judaism in which one abstains from all food and drink, including water...

Megillat Taanit (Hebrew: מגילת תענית‎), lit. "the Scroll of Fasting," is an ancient text, in the form of a chronicle, which enumerates 35 eventful days...

workers, including Honi., such as in Jerusalem Talmud Taanit 3:10, 66d and Babylonian Talmud Taanit 19a; 23a. His surname is derived from an incident in...

OCLC 865555402. "Megillat Taanit". Sefaria. Warsaw, 1874. Retrieved 27 October 2021. Numbers 33:38. II Kings 25:8. "Taanit 31a". Sefaria. Retrieved 22...

water until they died. According to an oral teaching appearing in Megillat Taanit, the four modes of execution formerly used in Jewish law were mostly orally...

was fulfilled. According to Rabbinic tradition (as seen in the Mishnah Taanit 4:6), the sin of the spies produced the annual fast day of Tisha B'Av. When...

at the Wayback Machine First, Mitchell (November 2010). "The Origin of Taanit Esther". AJS Review. 34 (2): 309–351. doi:10.1017/S036400941000036X. S2CID 162829573...

in ecclesiastical sources, until the 16th century. The Jerusalem Talmud (Taanit 4:5) and the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 93b and 97b) mention him by the...

דיופלא (p. 297) Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 18b, Rashi, s.v. דיופלין; Sefer ha-Arukh, s.v. דיופלי. Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 18b Smith, William (1858). A Dictionary...

destruction. This day was observed as a holiday in Hasmonean times. (Megilat Taanit) Babylonian calendar, where the month's name was Araḫ Šabaṭu Jewish astrology...