B"H Yom Yom

From Day by Day in Jewish History by A.P. Bloch

Courtesy of Pomeranz Bookseller and Ktav Publ.

[14] Arabs got control of most of Palestine from the Byzantines, 636. Pope decrees that Jews must attend conversionist sermons by Christian clergy, 1278. 10,000 Jews of Minsk murdered by the Nazis, 1942.

[15] The day that the Generation of the Wilderness realized that the decree against them had run its course and the last group of men of that generation (approx. 15,000) received a reprieve. The Sanhedrin publicized the issue of intertribal marriage, making it clear that people were allowed to marry people from other tribes. The ban against marrying anyone from the tribe of Binyamin was recinded. An ancient festival on with many matches were made. King Hoshea restored pilgrimages to Jerusalem, ending the interference of Yerovam.

A family holiday for those families who collected wood for the Beit HaMikdash. Romans permitted the burial of the dead of Beitar. Jews of Great Poland were authorized by King Sigismund the First to elect a chief rabbi, 1541. Holiday for the Jews of Cochin to celebrate their receiving a large shipment of sacred objects and Judaica from Amster dam, 1686. Baron Lionel de Roths child became first Jew in British Parliament, 1858, after the oath of office was altered for him. Corner stone of Hebrew University, 1918.

[16] Britian sent "illegal immigrants" bound for Eretz Yisrael to Cyprus.

[17] 120 Jewish families arrive in Buenos Aires 1889, founding the modern-day Jewish community of Argentina. Arabs attack Jews in Hebron and elsewhere in Israel 1929.

[18] Fast day recorded in the Gemara marking the extinguishing of the "western candle" of the Menora, during the reign of Achaz. (The eternal flame of the Ner Maaravi was a "proof" of the the presence of the Sh'china. Yahrzeit of the author of Mei'am Lo'ez, 1732. Millionth Oleh Chadash arrived, 1961.

[19] Jews massacred in Beziers, France, 1209. Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, 1932. Nazi exter mination of the Jews of Dvinsk 1941. Bar Ilan University founded, 1955.

[20] First printed edition of the Zohar, 1558. Led to popularizing of Kabbala, mysticism, and messianism.

[21] Yahrzeit of Rabbi Hayyim Soloveichik of Brisk, 1918. Hitler assumed powers of head-of-state and com mander-in-chief of the army, 1934, becoming complete and absolute dic tator. Jews of Austria were ordered by the Nazis to take the names of Israel and Sarah as their first names. First train of deportees from Belgium to Auschwitz 1942. 24 Yiddish writers executed in Russia 1952, terminating Yiddish culture there.

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