The Seventeenth of Tammuz is the dawn-to-nightfall fast day commemorating the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem, leading to the destruction of the Holy Temple on the 9th of Av, three weeks later. This year it coincides with next Sunday (July 12).
The weekly reading of Balak contains the most basic prophecy about the Coming of Moshiach, as the Rambam (Maimonides) explains. The 2nd article,
by the Ohr HaChayim, the great 18th century Moroccan kabbalist whose yahrzeit falls this week, on Friday 15 Tammuz, address this topic. A story featuring this major personality comprises the 7th and concluding article
The lead article, on the Weekly chapter of Pirkei Avot, is from the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Yosef-Yitxchak Schneersohn, whose yahrzeit falls this week on Monday 12 Tammuz.
Articles 4-6 are for the weekly reading, Balak.