בין המצרים

Hebrew edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Lamentations 1:3, where it is used to mean "between the straits", i.e. dire straits

Proper noun edit

בֵּ֥ין הַמְּצָרִֽים (bén hámm'tsarím)

  1. (Judaism) The period from the seventeenth of Tammuz through roughly the ninth of Av.

Further reading edit