Dear Nitzotzos Community, A gutten Rosh Chodesh Tammuz! Ahhh, what might have been. What could have been. What should have been. So close and yet so far. Tammuz is the fourth month of the Jewish year when counting from Nissan. When we count the year from Nissan we are counting from the time we were born as a nation. 210 years of slavery in Egypt ended in Nissan. Fifty days later we received the Torah. Moshe Rabbeinu than ascended to Heaven in order to receive the remainder of the Torah. He was due to return on the 16th of Tammuz. Had we held on a little longer, had we kept the eirev rav at bay for just another couple of hours (six to be precise), the 17th of Tammuz would have been the greatest Yom Tov of all time. At the time of the giving of the Torah we had defeated the concept of death. The sin of Adam HaRishon had almost been rectified. Once Moshe Rabbeinu brought down the luchos we would have completed the rectification and the 17th of Tammuz would have been the day in which we ushered in the era of Olam Haba. That would be quite a Yom Tov. Instead we built a Golden Calf and the rest is history. Far from becoming a Yom Tov, the 17th of Tammuz is the beginning of the destruction of Yerushalayim and the Beis Hamikdash. But nestled inside of every tragedy is the cure. The Sefer Yetzirah teaches that Tammuz is associated with the sense of sight and the letter chet. Chassidus explains that whenever you want to understand the inner meaning of something you must find the first
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