Halakhah su Geremia 39:2
בְּעַשְׁתֵּֽי־עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה שָׁנָה֙ לְצִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ הָרְבִיעִ֖י בְּתִשְׁעָ֣ה לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ הָבְקְעָ֖ה הָעִֽיר׃
nell'undicesimo anno di Sedechia, nel quarto mese, il nono giorno del mese, fu fatta una breccia in città—
Tur
It is written in the final chapter of Taanit (4:6), “Five events happened to our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz, and five on the ninth of Av. Onthe seventeenth of Tammuz the tablets were broken [by Moshe Rabbeinu upon seeing the golden calf], the Tamid [twice-daily] offering ceased, the city [Jerusalem] was breached, Apostomus burned the Torah and an idol was erected in the sanctuary. On the ninth of Av, it was decreed that our ancestors would not enter the land [of Israel, due to the sin of the spies], the first and second Temples were destroyed, Beitar was captured, and the city [Jerusalem] was plowed over, [specifically regarding when] Turnus Rufus plowed over the sanctuary.” Rabbi Akiva explained (Rosh HaShanah 18b), “Thus said Hashem: the fast of the fourth and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth will become days of joy and rejoice for the house of Judah.” (Zechariah 8:19) The fast of the fourth is the seventeenth of Tammuz, upon which the city was breached, as it is written, “In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine in the city become stronger,” and it is then written, “And the city was breached”. (Yirmiyahu 52:6 -7) And why is it the fast of the fourth? Because it is in the fourth month, as we count the months from Nisan … Even though the text (Yirmiyahu 39:2) says regarding the fast of the fourth month, “On the ninth of the month the city was breached,” now we fast on the seventeenth of the month. Initially the fast was established on the ninth of the month, since the ninth is the day the city was breached in the first [Temple]. However, in the second [Temple] the city was breached on the seventeenth, and so they established [the fast] on the seventeenth. This is because the destruction of the second Temple is harsher for us. In any event, the fast of the fourth is due to the breaching of the city, and for the pains that were multiplied on that day.
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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim
Even though it is written in the verse (Jeremiah 39:2) "[During the eleventh year [of the reign] of Tzidkiyahu] in the fourth month [i.e., Tammuz], on the ninth day of the month, the city was crossed", we do not fast on the 9th day of that [month], rather on the 17th of that [month] -- since, despite the fact that originally (i.e.; the First Temple) [the city of Jerusalem] was breached on the 9th of that [month] -- since the second time (i.e.; the Second Temple) [the city] was breached on the 17th of that [month], [the sages] decreed a fast on the 17th of that [month] because the destruction of the Second Temple was stronger than it (i.e; the destruction of the First Temple).
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