B"H Yom Yom B"H Yom Yom from Day by Day in Jewish History by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l [4 MarCheshvan] Rambam reached Jerusalem, 1165 - celebrate date as a private festival. Yahrzeit of R. Yehuda HaChasid, leader of a large Ashkenazi Aliya, 1700. Rumanian soldiers massacre 26,000 Jews of Odessa, '41. Nazis liquidate Riga ghetto, 1943. [October 14] JFoundation stone of the Knesset laid, 1958. Major fighting between Egypt and Israel resumed, 1948. Nazi plan for ghettoizing Jews in all big cities announced by Goering, 1938.Episcopal Church cleared Jews of the charge of killing Jesus, 1964. [5 MarCheshvan] Jews of Landau, Germany, ordered to wear yellow badge, 1468 (notice that the yellow badge was not invented by the Nazis). Yahrzeit of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer, 1874. [October 15] Dreyfus was first arrested, 1894. First mass deporting of German Jews to Eastern European ghettos, 1941. [6 MarCheshvan] King of Siciliy forbids decorating the outside of Shuls, 1366. 100 Jews of Florence, Italydeported to extermenation camps, 1943. First census in Israel counts 712,000 Jews, 1948. [October 16] 10 major Nazis were hanged after Nuremberg trials, 1946. [7 MarCheshvan] 10,000 Jews of Kovno ghetto taken for execution, 1941. Jewish children under the age of 12 were taken from the Shavl, Lithuania and executed, 1943. [October 17] Political rights of Warsaw's Jews suspended, 1808. Torquemada appointed Inquisitor-General, 1483. "Zionism is racism", 1975. [8 MarCheshvan] Yahrzeit of Rabbeinu Yona (Gerondi), 1263. Oldest shul in America dedicated (Surinam), 1685. [October 18] Last Crusade ends, 1270. Nazi war crimes trials open in Nuremberg, 1945. [9 MarCheshvan] Yahrzeit of the Rosh (Rabbeinu Asher), 1327. Earthquake with hundreds of fatalities in Tzfat, 1759. [October 19] 200 Jews massacred in Germany, 1298. [10 MarCheshvan] Gad's birthday. Sultan of Turkey forbids ritual charges against Jews, 1840. Jews of Sweden allowed to acquire land, 1860. Weizmann Institute, Rechovot dedicated, 1949. [October 20] British White Paper, 1930. [11 MarCheshvan] Yahrzeit of Metushelach. Birthdate of Binyomin. Yahrzeit of Rachel Imeinu. 180 Jews Killed in Munich Germany, 1285 (how come we don't learn from history?). [October 21] Volumes of the Talmud were burned in Venice, 1553. [12 MarCheshvan] Yahrzeit of Yitzchak Rabin, 1995. "And He said, What have you done! Your brothers blood cries out to Me from the ground." (B'reishit 4:10). The Pasuk tells us that the land itself had become contaminated as a result of the abomination it witnessed - one brother killing another. The Torah extends the query of AYEKA, to ask all mankind, in all times: "Whathave you done? Have you not learned the lesson of the terrible act and its tragic consequences - an eternal curse shattering the peace between Man and Earth!" May we learn the lesson, mending SIN'AT CHINAM with AHAVAT CHINAM.
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