The Mogen Avraham #580 quotes The Tanya Rabosi:
“ On Friday
Parshas Chukas Yechidim (individuals) fast. That day 20 [24] wagons of
seforim were burnt. The fast day was established on Friday Chukas rather
than the 9th of Tamuz. This is because they made a Sheilos Chalom if the gezeira
was from Shomayim.
The answer came back, the Targum of Zos Chukas Hatorah “ DO GEZEIRAS ORYSA” This is a Gezeira from Shomayim and it is on
Fridays of Parshas Chukas.
Some years (like this year) Parshas Chukas is read in Eretz
Yisroel a week earlier
than in Chu"l
Hence the Ta'anis is one week
earlier
in Eretz Yisroel than in Chu"l.
R. Zev Rivkin Shlita Shaila, "If
someone is in E,Y. the first Parshas Chukas and will be in Chu"l for the second Parshas Chukas,
does he fast the first Friday,the second Friday or both?".
answers appreciated
The Magen Avraham writes that a בעל נפש- one who is careful and sensitive to mitzvos- should also fast on the 9th of Tamuz. The pasuk tells us that the walls of Jerusalem were breeched on this date during the 1st Beis HaMikdash.
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