A Reflective and Inspirational Exploration of the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet Rebbetzin Hannah Miryam Bejarano Gutierrez Introduction: A Quiet Fast With Lasting Echoes Asara B’Tevet, the Fast of the Tenth of Tevet, often arrives quietly in the Jewish calendar. It lacks the public gravity of Tisha B’Av or the spiritual intensity of Yom Kippur, yet its message is both subtle and piercing. This fast does not mark destruction itself, but the moment when destruction became inevitab