THE YOM TOV OF כ"ו תמוז

Part 1   THE YOM TOV OF כ"ו תמוז TONIGHT, TIME TO PARTY   R. Shmuel Gurary A"H a wealthy Chabad Chasid, purchased hundreds of letters of the בעל שם טוב that were found in the Kherson Geniza. He presented them to ​his Rebbe the Maharshab, Harav Shalom Dov Ber zt"l .  In the 1930s, R. Yosef Yitzhak,Schneerson zt"l (Frierdiger Rebbe)  published some three hundred letters, purportedly from  the pen of the בעל שם טוב & his Talmidim. in the Chabad journal, "התמים".  There are two letters in the התמים where the בעל שם טוב and some of his Talmidim declared כ"ו תמוז as a  Yom Tov to be celebrated by all future generations as a יום משתה ושמחה וגיל לנו ולזרעינו-- עד העולם

How can we and why do we?

How can we and why do we?

The Ramban דרשה לר"ה explains why Klal Yisroel adopted Babylonian names for the months.*

תמוז is a name of an עבודה זרה

 יחזקאל פ"ח הנשים ישבות מבכות את התמוז

Many attempted to answer how we may and why we did name the month after an Avoda Zara.

Harav Hagaon R. Chaim Kanievsky Shlita.

said, being it was the month they placed a צלם in the היכל 

I wasn't זוכה to understand any of the  answers (includings R. Chaim's).

*Originally the months had no names

but numbers 1st 2nd etc. except for 

אביב -זיו - בול -ירח האתנים 

Two answers (maybe more ) One Question

Two women* fasting on י"ז תמוז are cooking supper for after the fast.

yet only one may taste the food and the other may not. 

two answers 

* equal health (not pregnant nursing etc.)

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Tamuz -Why The Name

The Ramban דרשה לר"ה explains why Klal Yisroel adopted Babylonian names for the months.*

Tammuz is a name of an Avoda Zara

 יחזקאל פ"ח הנשים ישבות מבכות את התמוז

Many attempted to answer how we

may and why we did name the month

after an Avoda Zara.

The latest answer I heard, was from

Harav Hagaon R. Chaim Kanievsky Shlita.

He said being it was the month they

placed a צלם in the היכל 

*Originally the months had no names

but numbers 1st 2nd etc. except for 

אביב -זיו - בול