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On the first of Shevat (thirty-seven days before his passing), Moses begins his repetition of the Torah to the assembled children of Israel, reviewing the events that occurred and the laws that were given in the course of their forty-year journey from Egypt to Sinai to the Promised Land, rebuking the people for their failings and iniquities, and enjoining them to keep the Torah and observe its commandments in the land that G‑d is giving them as an eternal heritage, into which they shall cross after his death.
Moses recalls his appointment of judges and magistrates to ease his burden of meting out justice to the people and teaching them the word of G‑d; the journey from Sinai through the great and fearsome desert; the sending of the spies and the people’s subsequent spurning of the Promised Land, so that G‑d decreed that the entire generation of the Exodus would die out in the desert. “Also against me,” says Moses, “was G‑d angry for your sake, saying: You, too, shall not go in there.”
Moses also recounts some more recent events: the refusal of the nations of Moab and Ammon to allow the Israelites to pass through their countries; the wars against the Emorite kings Sichon and Og, and the settlement of their lands by the tribes of Reuben and Gad and part of the tribe of Manasseh; and Moses’ message to his successor, Joshua, who will take the people into the Land and lead them in the battles for its conquest: “Fear them not, for the L‑rd your G‑d, He shall fight for you.”
This Shabbat will be followed by the fasting of Tichea BeAV which it is forbidden to eat, drink, wash, perfume, wear leather shoes and have conjugal relations.
Sick people are exempt, if necessary, they will eat just what they need.
We must not rinse our mouths.
When doing the dishes, you can wet your hands.
Babies can be washed as usual.
We do not wear beautiful clothes even used.
We use not to work until noon.
It is better not to walk to Tichéa Béav to avoid missing the mourning.
From noon we can prepare the evening meal.
The Temple was set on fire on the 9th of Av, and continued to burn all day long on the 10th, during which there were some signs of mourning.
It is customary not to shave.