B"H
Yom Yom
from Day by Day in Jewish History
by Rabbi Abraham P. Bloch z"l
[30 Menachem Av]
Moshe Rabeinu ascended Har Sinai for the third time, to receive the Second Luchot and G-d's forgiveness for the People. лл Yahrzeit of Yitzchak Sadeh, "father" of the Palmach, 1952.
[August 31]
Secular date of Rav Kook's passing, 1935.
Massacre of the Jews of Kiev, 1919.
Hitler issued Directive no.1, 1939 ordering the attack on Poland to begin at dawn the following day.
[1 Elul]
Beginning of the plague of Kinim.
Chaggai tells Zerubavel to start building the second Beit HaMikdash, 520bce
Rosh HaShanan for the tithing of animals (according to one opinion in the Mishna).
Persian Jews observed the day with a pilgimage to the tomb of Serach bat Asher.
Jews of Majorca were massacred, 1391.
Anti-Jews riots in Prague resulted in 77 Jewish deaths, 1400.
[September 1]
Mussolini cancelled the civil rights of Italian Jews and ordered the expulsion of all foreign-born Jews, 1938.
Ramban arrived in Jerusalem, 1267, and soon thereafter reestablished the Jewish community there.
World War II began, 1939.
Hungarian Jewish deportees were massacred in Kamenets-Podolski, Russia, 1941; 7000 Jews were massacred in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1941; the wearing of a yellow star became obligatory for all Jews in the Reich.
A manifesto was issued urging Jewish emigration to the protected Jewish colony, Ararat, which to be established on Grand Island, New York State, 1825. (Aliya to New York might have saved some of us from Ulpan.)
Ashkenazim of Jerusalem began the reconstruction of the ruined synagogue of Rabbi Yehuda HaChasid, 1836.
Jews of Frankfort on the Main were expelled (by Vincent Fettmilch), 1614.
[2 Elul]
160 Jews were burned at the stake on well-poisoning charges, Chinon, France, 1321.
Jews of Poland and Lithuania granted a charter of rights, 1447.
Pope Julius III ordered the confiscation and burning of the Talmud, 1553. (The Church felt that without the Talmud, Jews would more readily convert to Christianity.)
Jews of Balogna, Italy were granted equal rights, 1796.
[September 2]
Jews of Holland were emancipated, 1796.
The Russian Emperor established a commission, 1881, to study the "injurious influences of Jews upon the Russian native population.
The ghetto of Mir (Poland) was "liquidated" (don't like the word but don't know what word to use) by the Nazis, 1942.
A zebra is a horse with stripes. What other horse has stripes associated with it? [3 Elul]
Birthdate of the Meiri, 1240. (Much of the Meiri's commentary on the Talmud was not discovered until 1920.)
Here's this item again (previously on the secular date) for you to ponder once mone. Figuring out what went (and goes) through the mind of our tormentors, persecutors, and those who simply hate us. Jews of Budapest received permission conduct religious services in private homes, provided no rabbi officiates, 1787.
Yahrzeit of Rav Kook, 1935. The Rav died 16 years to the day that he arrived in Jerusalem.
First news of Nazi mass killings reached the outside world, 1942.
[September 3]
Anti-Jewish riots in Stockholm, Sweden, 1852.
England and France declared war on Germany, 1939; Jews of Czestochowa (Poland) were massacred, 1939. Many London Jews were killed in anti-Jewish riots which broke out during the coronation of King Richard I, 1189. One of the victims was the tosefist, Rabbi Jacob of Orleans.
[4 Elul]
Massacre of Jews of Barcelona, 1391. This "episode" was one of many around the same time that devastated Spanish Jewry.
The Bishop of Osma urged the establishment of an Inquisition in Spain, 1461.
Yahrzeit of the Or Samei'ach, Rabbi Meir Simcha HaKohen, 1926.
Massacre of the Jews of Posvol, Lithuania, 1941.
[September 4]
Germany occupied Kalisz, a Polish city with 30,000 Jews, 1939.
Cornelio da Montalcino, a monk who converted to Judaism, was burned at the stake in Rome, 1553.
[5 Elul]
Yahrzeit of Miriam Bella, sister of the Rama, famed for her piety and scholarship, 1619.
Ukranian army massacred Jews of Kiev, 1919.
The mitzva like HYDROGEN [September 5]
A decree in Paderborn, Prussia provided for the annual search of Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods, 1750.
Jews of Hanover were granted equality, 1848.
Jewish teachers and students were barred from Italian schools, 1939.
Piotrkow, Poland, pre-war Jewish population of 17,000. Occupied by Germany, 1939. First ghetto in Poland in this city.
Many leading Jews of Poland imprisoned and tortured following blood-ritual charges, 1736.
[6 Elul]
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller of Cracow, better known as Tosefot Yom Tov commentary of the Mishna, 1654 (according to one source).
Italian planes bombed Tel Aviv, 1940, killing 117 people.
[September 6]
Jews of Vilna were confined to the ghetto, 1941; 1668 Jews of Radomysl, Poland, were executed by the Nazis, 1941.
Germany occupied Cracow, 1939.
[7 Elul]
Amram remarried Yoceved.
Agrippa I dedicated the new gate of the Jerusalem wall, 42ce. Date observed as a holiday in olden times.
[September 7]
Russian government decreed the draft of Jewish boys at 12 years old, 1827.
Pogrom in Shedlitz, Russia, 1906.
A group of 23 Jews from Recife, Brazil arrived in New Amsterdam, 1654. They became the pioneers of New York's Jewish community.
Alexander Susskind, who gave his whole fortune as ransom for the body of Rabbi Meir of Rottenberg, died, 1307.
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