c 1476 BCE- The Fast of the Righteous: commemorates G-d's decree that the "generation of the wicked" should die in the wilderness because of their sin in the rejecting the Land because of the twelve spies.

 

c 1726 BCE- Zebulun, son of Jacob and Leah, is born.  He also dies on 7 Tishrei.

 

c 1725 BCE- Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, is born.

 

September 3, 1802- Rabbi Chaim of Voluzhin (a village in Lithuania) issued a proclamation to establish a new yeshiva. The Voluzhin Yeshiva eventually became the center of Torah scholarship in Europe, hosting tens of thousands of students who went on to become leaders of the Jewish world. The yeshiva was persecuted ruthlessly by the Czarist government, and in 1892 the government closed the yeshiva. Yet in a deeper sense, Voluzhin survived; most of the thousands of yeshivas today follow the Voluzhin model. The Jewish people are immeasurably enriched, for as Chaim Nachman Bialik once said, a yeshiva is "the creative factory of the Jewish people."

 

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Yom Shabbat, 12 Nisan, 5784

Saturday, April 20, 2024

 

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