#17 Tammuz

[etz-ashashiyot]

I unfortunately can't fast today for a few reasons, but I hope that those of you who are have a tzom kal and are properly hydrated.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Today is צום תמוז (17 Tammuz), a minor fast day, which started at dawn (first light) and ends at night (full dark), which remembers the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem during the seige of Rome and begins us on the sad journey of the Three Weeks. Read more:

I hope everyone who is fasting has an easy fast and that even if you are not, that you take time today to engage with the commemoration of this day in history.

[todaysjewishholiday]

17 Tammuz 5784 (22-23 July 2024)

The Roman siege of Jerusalem in 3830 brought a brutal end to four years of rebellion against the Roman occupation of Judaea and Galilee. Eretz Yisroel had been under some form of foreign occupation for almost the entire period since the end of the Babylonian captivity, from the Persians to the Seleucid Greeks to the Romans, and had the history of the successful Maccabee Rebellion to look back on, which had ended with the closest thing to Jewish political autonomy during the whole second temple period.

The rebellion began in 3826, one of several rebellions against the excesses of Nero’s reign, including others led by Roman provincial governors. It combined Jewish religious objections to being governed by a polytheistic empire with widespread rage at the brutality of Roman military occupation and excessive taxation. The rebellion brought together nearly all classes of Judaean society and all the major socioreligious factions of Jewish life, with even the staunchly apolitical Pharisees throwing their support behind the rebellion. However as the conflict raged on the ideological and class differences of the Jewish combatants led to brutal internal strife which weakened the effort to cast off Roman tyranny.

The chaos throughout the Roman Empire during this period led to hope of Roman withdrawal and retrenchment to smaller imperial borders, especially when Vespasian, who had been leading the Roman assault on the rebels, took a large portion of his forces back to Rome to seize imperial power at the end of the bloody year of the four emperors in 3829. But the Romans were determined not to lose any of their subjugated territories, and Vespasian soon sent reinforcements back to his sons Titus and Domitian. The tide then turned against the rebels.

The seige of Jerusalem began just before Pesach in 3830, when the city’s population was swelled by Jewish pilgrims from across the Roman and Parthian empires. These visitors were trapped within the city’s walls with its permanent inhabitants, severely straining the city’s stockpiles of food and water. Disease and hunger were as deadly in the siege as the foreign army, and Jerusalem’s defenders soon turned on each other as tensions and rivalries reached the breaking point and every faction sought to blame the others for the horrible situation.

It was on the seventeenth of Tammuz that the Roman armies broke through the third and final defensive wall around the city. By the end of the month Jerusalem had been almost entirely leveled in a series of fires that broke out during the Roman massacre of much of the surviving population. Nearly a hundred thousand Jewish survivors were forced into slavery and taken elsewhere in the empire. Scholars estimate that less than ten percent of Jerusalem’s pre-war population remained in the area by the end of the year. The revolt’s suppression had brought untold horrors upon Judaism’s holiest city.

The seventeenth of Tammuz soon replaced the ninth of Tammuz, which was the anniversary of the Babylonian army’s breach of Jerusalem’s walls at the end of the thirty month siege of the city, as a sunrise to sunset fast day. Because the Roman destruction of the Beit haMikdash occurred on the same Hebrew date as the Babylonian destruction of the temple built by Solomon, there was no need to change the date of that observance.

The period from the seventeenth of Tammuz to the ninth of Av is known as the Three Weeks, and is observed in many Jewish communities as a mourning period for the physical and spiritual exile created by the destruction of both temples. Communities that consider post-exilic rabbinical Judaism to be a superior development to the sacrificial order and which celebrate the cultural vibrancy of diaspora Judaism over the longing for return are correspondingly less likely to emphasize the Three Weeks.

[anonymousdandelion]

For those who will be fasting tomorrow for the 17th of Tammuz, a friendly remember to please remember to drink your water throughout today!!

[jewish-holiday-tournament]

Jewish Holiday Tournament

Jumbr, it's time to decide which holiday has what it takes to win!

Round 1 will be posted tonight or tomorrow. The matchups are as follows:

Purim vs. Yom Yerushalayim

Tu Bishvat vs. Shemini Atzeret

Seharane vs. 17 Tammuz

Hoshanah Rabba vs. Fast of the Firstborn

Sukkot vs. Yom HaZikaron

Rosh Chodesh vs. Tisha b'Av

Yom Kippur vs. Lag BaOmer

Mimouna vs. Pesach Sheini

Pesach vs. Yom HaShoah

Shavuot vs. 1 Elul

Shabbat vs. Purim Katan

Tu b'Av vs. Chag HaBanot

Chanukah vs. Yom HaAtzmaut

Sigd vs. 10 Tevet

Simchat Torah vs. Fast of Esther

Rosh Hashanah vs. Shushan Purim

[frumdyke]

just finished trimmimg my hair ajd i immediately want to chop moree

[magnetothemagnificent]

Jewish holidays rated by how much fire is involved:

Pesach: burn Chametz Erev Pesach, Yom Tov candles, candle to open the door for Eliyahu. 90% fire 🔥

Lag BaOmer: Big community bonfire. 100% fire 🔥

Shavuot: Yom Tov candles. 10% fire 🕯️

17 Tammuz: 0% fire

Tisha'a B'Av: Some eat ashes just before the fast starts. 10% fire 🕯️

Tu B'Av: 0% fire

Rosh HaShana: Yom Tov candles. 10% fire 🕯️

Tzom Gedalia: 0% fire

Yom Kippur: Yom Tov candles. 10% fire 🕯️

Sukkot: Yom Tov candles. 10% fire 🕯️

Chanukah: Lots of candles. 99% fire 🔥

10 Tevet: 0% fire

Tu B'Shvat: 0% fire

Purim: 0% fire

Shabbat: Shabbat candles and Havdalah candle 50% fire 🔥

[resplendent-ragamuffin]

Nine and a half months now. Thinking of you while we fast for 17 Tammuz.

May you return home soon.

May our mourning turn back to dancing, במהרה בימינו

Six Months Since

By Shoshana bat-Yehonatan

A poem for the six (Hebrew) month anniversary of the Simchat Torah Massacre. With thanks to the JPS, Koren, Metsudah, and other translations on Sefaria.org. Footnotes link to sources of quotes. Footnotes connect to sources which will be in reblog, because otherwise it's too long to post.

TW: RAPE

Six months has it been

Since the fields turned red without flowers

Now calaniot bloom where once my darlings danced

But still, my precious ones are gone.

I have no prophets to comfort me

No visions from God [1]

My king remains in exile [2]

How can I sing a song of God on alien soil [3]

In an alien tongue?

Yet I have been too long a stranger in a land not mine[4]—

Two thousand years, to a paltry hundred and twenty—

And I forgotten even how to speak the Holy Tongue

Let alone write in it.

I have neither wit nor words to sing my grief.

And so I turn to those before me

As they turned to those before them

And say,

“God, open my lips, and let my mouth declare my grief.” [5]

Oholiva cries [6]

And Ohola wails [7]

This year was pregnant[8] with a second month of joy

Instead she wails in travails unending

“When will my children return?” [9]

Oh wall of Fair Zion [10]

Shed tears like a river [11]

Cry out in the night and pour your heart out like water [12]

Rachel’s eyes are red as her sister’s [13]

As she weeps over the fate of her children [14]

Six months it has been

Since they ravaged women in Zion [15]

Maidens in the towns of Judea [16]

Since their hands tore my princes apart

No deference shown to elders [17]

On this day six months ago

My infants were taken captive before the enemy [18]

The joy of our hearts was seized

And our dancing turned to mourning [19]

For the youths are gone from their music [20].

Now my eyes shed rivers of water [21]

Over the ruin of my people’s daughter [22]

Bitterly I weep in the night [23]

My cheeks wet with tears [24]

There is none to comfort me: my friends have betrayed me [25]

I cry:

Behold my agony! [26]

My priests and my elders have perished in the city [27]

The elders strewn like dust on the ground [28]

Those whom I dandled and reared my foe has consumed [29]

“This is the day we hoped for! We have found it, we have seen it!” [30]

My maidens and youths have gone into captivity! [31]

“It is your doing.” [32]

Blood on her legs, her nakedness seen, [33]

Zion reaches out for comfort [34]--

“Away! Unclean!” [35]

She can only shrink back and sigh [36]

“May it never befall you.” [37]

The nations have resolved “They shall stay here no longer” [38]

We wander and wander [39]

But where are we to go?

How can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred? [40]

“My life as my wish, my people as my request,” [41]

I begged my Husband [42]

“For we have been targeted, my people and I, to be destroyed, massacred, and exterminated.” [43]

But the King turned His face from me.

My dear ones were purer than snow [44]

Ruddier than rubies or coral [45]

Their bodies lovely as sapphire [46]

Now their faces are darkened with ash [47]

Unrecognizable amid the ruin of the streets [48]

See, God, and behold to whom You have done this! [49]

Look at me, answer me, Oh God! [50]

How long will You hide Your face from me? [51]

I have no prophets now to comfort me

And must take my comfort from those before:

You promised “God will restore your captives.” [52]

Return them, God, and let them come back [53]

Renew our days as of old. [54]

[girlactionfigure]

[News Story]

12:36pm Archaeological Find of the Century

[And not connected to Chanukah]

Archaeologist Prof. Gershon Galil on Wednesday night revealed on Channel 14 what they believe to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time in Israel, which they say presents a breakthrough in the study of the history of Israel in the biblical period.

As Prof. Galil put it: “I managed to decipher five new monumental royal inscriptions of King Hezekiah of Judah, which together include dozens of lines and hundreds of letters. The inscriptions mention the name of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and summarize his main actions in the first seventeen years of his reign, among them, the quarrying of Nikbat Ha’Shiloah and its pool; the ritual reform; the conquest of Philistia; and his accumulation of great wealth.”

The most crucial aspect of his discovery, according to Galil, is the fact that “the inscriptions indicate the exact date on which the Ha’Shiloah project was completed: 2 Tammuz, year 17 of Hezekiah, or 709 BCE.”

More: Here

[andrewtheprophet]

An Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could backfire: Daniel 8 https://andrewtheprophetcom.wordpress.com/2024/10/17/an-israeli-attack-on-irans-nuclear-facilities-could-backfire-daniel-8/

[todaysjewishholiday]

11 Tammuz 5784 (16-17 Tammuz 2024)

The Jewish presence in North Africa dates back at least as far as the Roman period, and possibly before that in the Carthaginian empire. After the Alhambra Decree expelled both Jews and Muslims from the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile many Iberian Jews joined their Islamic neighbors in seeking refuge in the various Islamic societies of the Maghreb.

The Sephardi refugees brought their memories of the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, and passed the stories of those persecutions on to their descendants. So when the Spanish sought to expand their empire across the Mediterranean, the Jews of Algiers knew the dangers.

In 5535, a Spanish fleet led by the Irish expatriate Alejandro O’Reilly sought to capture Algiers, hoping for a quick victory to restore Spanish pride after the painful failures of the Seven Years War.

Twenty thousand Spanish troops set out aboard over two hundred troop transports defended by 74 warships. Jewish Algerians were deeply distressed by the possibility of Spanish occupation, and some volunteered to fight in the army of Dey Mohammed ben Osman. Amazigh forces also came to the city’s aid.

Spanish forces found themselves unprepared for the extreme heat of summer on the Maghrebi coast, and had to abandon much of their artillery when it sunk into the coastal dunes. The defending forces lured the attackers forward with a feinted retreat until they were surrounded and too far inland to be defended by the cannons of their naval reinforcements.

Five thousand Spanish soldiers died in the battle and another two thousand were taken prisoner while the rest of the invasion force retreated in disorder to their boats. The Spanish had been so sure of a speedy victory that they had brought barely more provisions than were needed to reach Algiers and were forced to return to Spain immediately rather than mounting a prolonged naval blockade of the city. Thus the entire invasion was repelled in a single day.

The Jews of Algiers were ecstatic to see the spectre of Spanish rule and the arrival of the Inquisition turned back so soundly and speedily. It was said that the graves of two of Algiers most famed sages had shot out holy fire to repel the Spanish armada. The day of the attack was declared as the Purim of Tammuz for the Jews of Algiers, and was celebrated annually through the next two centuries.

Algeria’s Jewish population was significantly diminished by emigration to Israel and France over the course of the twentieth century. It is estimated that at this time approximately five thousand Jews remain, compared to over a hundred thousand a century ago.

[jewish-holiday-tournament]

Jewish Holiday Tournament Round 1

1. Purim vs. Yom Yerushalayim WINNER: PURIM

2. Tu Bishvat vs. Shemini Atzeret WINNER: TU BISHVAT

3. Seharane vs. Tzom Tammuz WINNER: SEHARANE

4. Hoshanah Rabba vs. the Fast of the Firstborn WINNER: HOSHANAH RABBA

5. Sukkot vs. The First of Nisan WINNER: SUKKOT

6. Rosh Chodesh vs. Tisha b'Av WINNER: ROSH CHODESH

7. Yom Kippur vs. Lag BaOmer WINNER: YOM KIPPUR

8. Mimouna vs. Pesach Sheini WINNER: MIMOUNA

9. Pesach vs. Leil Slichot WINNER: PESACH

10. Shavuot vs. The First of Elul WINNER: SHAVUOT

11. Shabbat vs. Purim Katan WINNER: SHABBAT

12. Chag HaBanot vs. Tu b'Av WINNER: TU B'AV

13. Chanukah vs. Yom Ha'Atzmaut WINNER: CHANUKAH

14. Sigd vs. Asarah b'Tevet WINNER: SIGD

15. Simchat Torah vs. The Fast of Esther WINNER: SIMCHAT TORAH

16. Rosh Hashanah vs. Shushan Purim WINNER: ROSH HASHANAH

[brookston]

Holidays 7.23

Holidays

Air Force Day (Peru)

Apolinario Mabini Day (Philippines)

Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]

Body Painting Day (New York)

Cassandra Asteroid Day

Children’s Day (Indonesia, Vanuatu)

Construction Day (Quebec)

Gorgeous Grandma Day

Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)

Guayaquil Day (Ecuador)

Historic County Flags Day (UK)

Hot and Bothered Day

Hot Enough For Ya Day

International Forgiveness Day

International Hello My Name Is Day

International My Chemical Romance Day

International Yada, Yada, Yada Day

Khao Phansa Day (Thailand)

Mayan Sun Festival

Mayhem New Year

Mosquito Day

National Broadcasting Day (India)

National Care for Your Coworker Day

National Dachshund Day

National Human-Animal Bond Awareness Day (UK)

National Pwnage Day

National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

National Russell Day

National Touch Grass Day

National Women Touched by Addiction Day

Private Eye Day

Ram Day (French Republic)

Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

Renaissance Day (Oman)

Revolution Day (Egypt)

Simón Bolívar Day (Venezuela)

Soma No Umadi (Wild Horse Chasing; Japan)

Sumarauki (Iceland)

World Castleman Disease Day

World Sjögren's Day

World Whale and Dolphin Day

Yada, Yada, Yada Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Dessert First Day

National Lemon Day

National Spongecake Day

National Sprout Day

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day

Sprinkle Day

Vanilla Ice Cream Day

Independence & Related Days

Arab Egyptian Revolution Day (Egypt)

Abkhazia (Declared from USSR, 1992) [partially recognized]

Batangas City Foundation Day (Philippines)

Union of Upper and Lower Canada (Parliamentary Act Day; Canada)

4th Tuesday in July

Waterton-Glacier Science & History Day [4th Tuesday]

Festivals Beginning July 23, 2024

Broome County Fair (Whitney Point, New York) [thru 7.28]

Paléo Festival (Nylon, Switzerland) [thru 7.28]

Plainfield Farmers' Fair (Plainfield Farmer's Grove, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.27]

Rock County 4-H Fair (Janesville, Wisconsin) [thru 7.28]

Feast Days

Anne (a.k.a. Susanna; Christian; Saint)

Apollinaris of Ravenna (Christian; Saint)

Beachball (Muppetism)

Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (Artology)

Bridget of Sweden (Christian; Saint)

Ezekiel (Christian; Prophet)

Feast of Sulis (Goddess of Mineral Springs)

Feast of the Three Wise Men, that is the Magi, called Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar (Christian)

Francesco Granacci (Artology)

Free Hugs Day (Pastafarian)

Groucho Marx Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Haile Selassie Day (Rastafarian)

Heiromartyr Phocas (Eastern Orthodox)

John Cassian (Western Christianity; Saint)

Laurence of Brindisi (Christian; Saint)

Leonardo Da Vinci (Positivist; Saint)

Liborius of Le Mans (Christian; Saint)

Margarita María (Christian; Saint)

Mercè Prat i Prat (Christian; Saint)

Nassos Daphnis (Artology)

Neptunalia (Old Roman festival honoring Neptune; Pagan)

Peder Severin Krøyer (Artology)

Philipp Otto Runge (Artology)

Phocas the Gardener (Christian; Saint)

Rasyphus and Ravennus (Christian; Saint)

Raymond Chandler (Writerism)

Romula and her Companions (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Virgil Finlay (Artology)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Seventeenth of Tammuz [17 Tammuz]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Batman: The Killing Joke (WB Animated Film; 2016)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Film; 1982)

Boneheads (Film; 1993)

Bosko at the Beach (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)

The Bourne Supremacy (Film; 2004)

Catwoman (Film 2004)

Cinderella Meets Fella (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Cold As Ice, by Foreigner (Song; 1977)

Chris Columbus, Jr. (Oswald the Lucky Cartoon; 1934)

The Cuckoo I.Q. (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

Double or Mutton (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey (Novel; 1968) [Dragonriders of Peru #1]

Drop Dead Gorgeous (Film; 1999)

Fanny in the Lion’s Den (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

The Fly in the Ointment (Phantasies Cartoon; 1943)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Film; 1941)

The Homeless Pup (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn (Novel; 1939)

Hyde and Sneak (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1962)

Inspector Gadget (Film; 1999)

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges (Short Stories; 1962)

The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols (Novel; 1974)

Poor Elmer (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)

Ramona and Beezus (Film; 2010)

Salt (Film; 2010)

Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (WB Animated Film; 2013)

Sexus, by Henry Miller (Novel; 1949) [Rosy Crucifixion #1]

Sleigh Bells (Ub Iwerks Disney Oswald the Lucky Cartoon; 1928)

Slingshot 6 7/8 (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1951)

Springtime for Pluto (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Tidal, by Fiona Apple (Album; 1996)

The World According to Garp (Film; 1982)

Today’s Name Days

Birgit, Birgitta, Brigita, Liborius (Austria)

Apolinar, Brigita, Ezekijel (Croatia)

Libor (Czech Republic)

Apollinaris (Denmark)

Saida, Seida, Senta, Siina (Estonia)

Oili, Olga (Finland)

Brigitte (France)

Birgitta (Germany)

Lenke (Hungary)

Apollinare, Brigida (Italy)

Ada, Madala, Magda, Magone (Latvia)

Apolinaras, Brigita, Gilmina, Tarvilas (Lithuania)

Brit, Brita, Britt (Norway)

Apolinary, Bogna, Żelisław (Poland)

Oľga (Slovakia)

Brígida (Spain)

Emma (Sweden)

Apollinary (Ukraine)

Bridget, Bridgett, Bridgette, Bridie, Brigette, Brigid, Brigitta, Brigitte, Romeo (Universal)

Roma, Roman, Romaine, Romana, Romelia, Romeo, Romina, Seymour (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 205 of 2024; 161 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 30 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 18 (Wu-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 17 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 16 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 25 Red; Foursday [25 of 30]

Julian: 10 July 2024

Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Dante (8th Month) [Leonardo Da Vinci]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 34 of 94)

Week: 4th Week of July

Zodiac: Leo (Day 2 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.23

Holidays

Air Force Day (Peru)

Apolinario Mabini Day (Philippines)

Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]

Body Painting Day (New York)

Cassandra Asteroid Day

Children’s Day (Indonesia, Vanuatu)

Construction Day (Quebec)

Gorgeous Grandma Day

Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)

Guayaquil Day (Ecuador)

Historic County Flags Day (UK)

Hot and Bothered Day

Hot Enough For Ya Day

International Forgiveness Day

International Hello My Name Is Day

International My Chemical Romance Day

International Yada, Yada, Yada Day

Khao Phansa Day (Thailand)

Mayan Sun Festival

Mayhem New Year

Mosquito Day

National Broadcasting Day (India)

National Care for Your Coworker Day

National Dachshund Day

National Human-Animal Bond Awareness Day (UK)

National Pwnage Day

National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

National Russell Day

National Touch Grass Day

National Women Touched by Addiction Day

Private Eye Day

Ram Day (French Republic)

Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)

Renaissance Day (Oman)

Revolution Day (Egypt)

Simón Bolívar Day (Venezuela)

Soma No Umadi (Wild Horse Chasing; Japan)

Sumarauki (Iceland)

World Castleman Disease Day

World Sjögren's Day

World Whale and Dolphin Day

Yada, Yada, Yada Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Dessert First Day

National Lemon Day

National Spongecake Day

National Sprout Day

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day

Sprinkle Day

Vanilla Ice Cream Day

Independence & Related Days

Arab Egyptian Revolution Day (Egypt)

Abkhazia (Declared from USSR, 1992) [partially recognized]

Batangas City Foundation Day (Philippines)

Union of Upper and Lower Canada (Parliamentary Act Day; Canada)

4th Tuesday in July

Waterton-Glacier Science & History Day [4th Tuesday]

Festivals Beginning July 23, 2024

Broome County Fair (Whitney Point, New York) [thru 7.28]

Paléo Festival (Nylon, Switzerland) [thru 7.28]

Plainfield Farmers' Fair (Plainfield Farmer's Grove, Pennsylvania) [thru 7.27]

Rock County 4-H Fair (Janesville, Wisconsin) [thru 7.28]

Feast Days

Anne (a.k.a. Susanna; Christian; Saint)

Apollinaris of Ravenna (Christian; Saint)

Beachball (Muppetism)

Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (Artology)

Bridget of Sweden (Christian; Saint)

Ezekiel (Christian; Prophet)

Feast of Sulis (Goddess of Mineral Springs)

Feast of the Three Wise Men, that is the Magi, called Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar (Christian)

Francesco Granacci (Artology)

Free Hugs Day (Pastafarian)

Groucho Marx Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Haile Selassie Day (Rastafarian)

Heiromartyr Phocas (Eastern Orthodox)

John Cassian (Western Christianity; Saint)

Laurence of Brindisi (Christian; Saint)

Leonardo Da Vinci (Positivist; Saint)

Liborius of Le Mans (Christian; Saint)

Margarita María (Christian; Saint)

Mercè Prat i Prat (Christian; Saint)

Nassos Daphnis (Artology)

Neptunalia (Old Roman festival honoring Neptune; Pagan)

Peder Severin Krøyer (Artology)

Philipp Otto Runge (Artology)

Phocas the Gardener (Christian; Saint)

Rasyphus and Ravennus (Christian; Saint)

Raymond Chandler (Writerism)

Romula and her Companions (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Virgil Finlay (Artology)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Seventeenth of Tammuz [17 Tammuz]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Batman: The Killing Joke (WB Animated Film; 2016)

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Film; 1982)

Boneheads (Film; 1993)

Bosko at the Beach (WB LT Cartoon; 1932)

The Bourne Supremacy (Film; 2004)

Catwoman (Film 2004)

Cinderella Meets Fella (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Cold As Ice, by Foreigner (Song; 1977)

Chris Columbus, Jr. (Oswald the Lucky Cartoon; 1934)

The Cuckoo I.Q. (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1941)

Double or Mutton (WB LT Cartoon; 1955)

Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey (Novel; 1968) [Dragonriders of Peru #1]

Drop Dead Gorgeous (Film; 1999)

Fanny in the Lion’s Den (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

The Fly in the Ointment (Phantasies Cartoon; 1943)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Film; 1941)

The Homeless Pup (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn (Novel; 1939)

Hyde and Sneak (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1962)

Inspector Gadget (Film; 1999)

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges (Short Stories; 1962)

The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols (Novel; 1974)

Poor Elmer (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)

Ramona and Beezus (Film; 2010)

Salt (Film; 2010)

Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (WB Animated Film; 2013)

Sexus, by Henry Miller (Novel; 1949) [Rosy Crucifixion #1]

Sleigh Bells (Ub Iwerks Disney Oswald the Lucky Cartoon; 1928)

Slingshot 6 7/8 (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1951)

Springtime for Pluto (Disney Cartoon; 1944)

Tidal, by Fiona Apple (Album; 1996)

The World According to Garp (Film; 1982)

Today’s Name Days

Birgit, Birgitta, Brigita, Liborius (Austria)

Apolinar, Brigita, Ezekijel (Croatia)

Libor (Czech Republic)

Apollinaris (Denmark)

Saida, Seida, Senta, Siina (Estonia)

Oili, Olga (Finland)

Brigitte (France)

Birgitta (Germany)

Lenke (Hungary)

Apollinare, Brigida (Italy)

Ada, Madala, Magda, Magone (Latvia)

Apolinaras, Brigita, Gilmina, Tarvilas (Lithuania)

Brit, Brita, Britt (Norway)

Apolinary, Bogna, Żelisław (Poland)

Oľga (Slovakia)

Brígida (Spain)

Emma (Sweden)

Apollinary (Ukraine)

Bridget, Bridgett, Bridgette, Bridie, Brigette, Brigid, Brigitta, Brigitte, Romeo (Universal)

Roma, Roman, Romaine, Romana, Romelia, Romeo, Romina, Seymour (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 205 of 2024; 161 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 30 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 18 (Wu-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 17 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 16 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 25 Red; Foursday [25 of 30]

Julian: 10 July 2024

Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Dante (8th Month) [Leonardo Da Vinci]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 34 of 94)

Week: 4th Week of July

Zodiac: Leo (Day 2 of 31)

[nach-yomish]

Day 16: Joshua 16 // יהושע ט"ז

We will be OFF tomorrow for 17 Tammuz, but will be resuming on Wednesday!

(Link to full chapter text on Sefaria)

[jewish-polls]

for jews only

if it varies by year, choose based on the most "typical" year