The Fast of Gedalia was decreed to commemorate the assassination of Gedalia Ben Achikam, perpetrated by Yishmael Ben Netania, on the instigation of the King of Ammon.

As a result of Gedalia’s death, the final vestiges of Judean autonomy after the Babylonian conquest were destroyed.

Many thousands of Jews were slain, and the remaining Jews were driven to final exile.

The sad part of the story is........

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