The Temple Institute: Holy Temple Calendar: Tammuz 19, 5767
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Tammuz
Yom Chamishi
  • Time of the morning Tamid offering: 3:47 AM

  • Levitical song of the day:

    "For the conductor, upon the gittit..."

    Psalm 81

  • Time of the evening Tamid offering: 1:18 PM

See Light to the Nations
Construction of Second Temple Begins (370 BCE) Fifty three years following the destruction of the First Holy Temple (see Jewish History for the 9th of Av), Zerubabel and Joshua the High Priest began construction of the Second Temple, with permission from King Cyrus of Persia. The offering of sacrifices had actually commenced a few months earlier, on the vacant lot where the 1st Temple stood, however it was only after the construction started on the 1st of Iyar that the Levites began accompanying the service with song and music. The construction was later halted after the hostile Samaritans supplied false slanderous information to Cyrus about the Jews' intentions. The construction was resumed many years later, and completed 21 years later under the reign of King Darius (see Jewish History for the Third of Adar).