What Connects the Summer Solstice and the Month of Tammuz? Originally Published June 24-25, 2022.
June 24, 2022
This past week we experienced the aestival solstice, the beginning of summer, the longest daylight day of the year. Although this year the month of Tammuz doesn’t begin until over a week later, that month is often associated in Jewish life with the solstice. Tammuz is named for the Sumerian god Tammuz. He was supposedly […]