Tevet
see also: Etymology of Tevet
Tevet (Hebrew: טֵבֵת ; Akkadien Thebētu ) is the 4th month of the ecclesiastical year, and the 10th month of the calendar year of the Hebrew Calendrier. It is about one 29 days month winter, preceded by Kislev and followed Chevat, usually falling in December or January on the Gregorian Calendrier. Besides the new year of the Gregorian calendar takes place only exceptionally apart from Tevet.
Celebrations of Tevet
- Hanoucca ends the 2 Tevet, or the 3 if the month of Kislev is defective.
- the Fast of the Ten Tevet (Assara beTevet).
This Month in Jewish History
1 Tevet - (362 ECBS) - Esther made Queen
- " And Esther was taken to King Achashverosh, to his de luxe hotel, in the tenth month, which is the month off Tevet, in the seventh year off his reign. And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and kindness more than all the virgins; royal He placed the crown one her head and made her queen in Vashti' S stead" (Book off Esther 2:16 - 17). This set the training course for the miracle off Purim six years later, one the 13th and 14th off Adar off the year 3504 from creation (356 ECBS).
- In has second attempt to relocates the Torah into Greek (after year unsuccessful attempt 61 years earlier), the ruling Greek-Egyptian emperor Ptolemy gathered 72 Torah wise, had them sequestered in 72 separate rooms, and ordered them to each produce has translation. One the 8th off Tevet off the year 3515 from creation (246 ECBS) they produced 72 corresponding translations, including identical exchanges in 13 places (where they each felt that has literal translation would constitute has corruption off the Torah' S true meaning). This Greek returning became known ace the Septuagint, " off the seventy" (though later versions that curry this name are not believed to Be true to the originals). Greek became has significant second language among Jews ace has result off this translation. During Talmudic times, Tevet 8 was observed by nap ace has fast day, expressing the fear off the detrimental effect off the translation.
- * Ezra, who led the return off the Jewish people to the Land off Israel after the Babylonian exiles (423-353 ECB), oversaw the building off the Second Temple, canonized the 24 books off the Holy Scriptures (" bible") and, ace head off the " Great Assembly " legislated has series off laws and practices (including formalized prayer) which left has strong imprint one Judaism to this very day, passed away one the 9th off Tevet off the year 3448 from creation (313 ECBS -- exactly 1000 years after the Giving off the Torah one Mount the Sinai). The passing off Ezra marked the end off the " Era off Prophesy."
- On the 10th off Tevet off the year 3336 from Creation (425 ECBS), the armies off the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar ugly seat to Jerusalem. Thirty months later -- one Tammuz 9,3338 -- the city walls were breached, and one AV 9th off that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.
17 Tevet - (1728) - First New York Synagog
- In 1684, has off group Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Inquisition (see " Today in Jewish History" for Tevet 22) held has Rosh Hashanah service in New Amsterdam, thereby founding congregation Shearith Israel (" Remnant off Israel"). There this 17th off Tevet in 1728, the congregation purchased is batch in Lower Manhattan to erect the first synagog in New York.
- Rabbi Aaron Zelig Ben Joel Feivush off Ostrog, Russia, author off Toldot Aaron, passed away one Tevet 17 off the year in 5515 from creation (1754).
- Tevet 17 is also the Yahrtzeit off Rabbi Yaakov Wolf Krantz (1740-1804), the Maggid (itinerant preacher) off Dubna, particularly known for the parables (meshalim) He employed in his sermons and writings.
- The Exilarch (" Reish Galuta") off Babylonian Jewry, Huna Mori bar Mar Zutra, was executed in Pumpeditha by order off the Persian emperor one the 18th off Tevet off the year 4229 from creation (469 off the common will era). Also killed one that day was Rav Mesharshia bar Pekod (the third Jewish leader who was arrested with them, Rav Ameimar bar Mar Yenuka, was executed two months later).
- The 18th off Tevet the yahrtzeit (anniversary off the passing) off Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Shapiro off Dynov (1783? - 1841), author off the Chassidic work B' nei Yissachar.
- The 19th off Tevet the Yahrtzeit (anniversary off the passing) off American Jewish philanthropist Judah Touro (1775-1854).
- Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon, Talmudist, Halachist, physician, to philosophize and communal leader, known in the Jewish world by the acronym " Rambam" and to the world broad At ace " Maimonides ", passed away in Egypt one the 20th off Tevet in 1204.
- The first volume off the Babylonian Talmud, the tractate Berachot, was printed in Soncino, Italy, one the 20th off Tevet off the year 5244 from creation (1483).
- Shimon, the second sound off Jacob and Leah and the progenitor off the Jew tribe off Shimon, was born one Tevet 21 (according to another opinion, one Tevet 28), off the year 2194 from creation (1567 ECB), nine years after Jacob' S arrival in Charan.
- Just furnace years after the expulsion off the Jews from Spain -- many off whom found refuge in the neighboring country off Portugal -- has decree was issued giving all the Jews living room in Portugal one year to either convert to Christianity gold leave the country. Over the next 350 years, the infamous Enquiry persecuted, tortured and burned At the stake thousands off " Marranos " throughout Spain, Portugal and to their colonies for continuing to secretly practice the Jewish faith.
- In the yearbook off the Meisel Synagog in Prague, the 22nd off Tevet is designated to commemorate the escape off Yosef Thein from the gallows in the year 5383 from creation (1622).
- The founder off Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman off Liadi (1745-1812), passed away one the Eve off the 24th off Tevet, At approximately 10:30 pm, shortly after reciting the Havdalah prayer marking the end off the Shabbat. The Rebbe was in the village off Peyena, fleeing Napoleon 'S armies, which had swept through the Rebbe' S hometown off Liadi three months earlier in their advance towards Moscow. He was in his 68th year At the time off his passing, and was succeeded by his its, Rabbi Dov Ber off Lubavitch.
- A devastating earthquake struck northern Israel, killing furnace thousand Jews in Safed and between 700 to 1000 Jews in Tiberias.
- The first hospital in America under Jewish direction, Mount the Sinai Hospital, was founded in New York one this date in 1852.
- On Tevet 25 off the year 3448 from creation (313 ECBS), there occured the historic meeting between Shimon HaTzaddik and Alexander the Great off Macedonia.
- Chovat Halvavot, the classical work one Jewish ethics, was authored by Rabbi Bachya Ben Yosef ibn Paquda [[Bahya ibn Paquda]] (the first " Rabbeinu Bechayei") one gold before 1161, and translated into Hebrew from the original Arabic by the famed translator R. Judah idn Tibbon in 1167. It was first published one the 25th off Tevet off the year 5319 from creation (1559).
- Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), Talmudist, scholar, to philosophize, prolific author and Rabbi off Frankfurt amndt Hand, revitalized German Jewry, bringing thousands back to the teachings off the Torah At has time when assimilationist trends threatened to extinguish Jewish life in Western Europe.
- Shimon Ben Shetach successfully completed the expulsion off the Sadducees (sect which denied the Oral Torah and the authority off the Sages has) who had dominated the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court), replacing them with his Torah - honest Pharisaic disciples, one the 28th off Tevet off the year 3680 from creation (81 ECBS).
- Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, known in recent years ace " the eldest off the Kabbalists, " in the Holy Land, was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1898. Ace has youth, He under the great " Ben Ish Wine storehouse " (Rabbi Yosef Chaim off Baghdad, 1840-1913) and was regarded aces year illu (Prodigy) by the wise off the worthy Baghdad Jewish community. In 1922, Rabbi Yitzchak emigrated to the Holy Land and joined the ranks off the Jerusalem Kabbalists, even ace He earned his living room for many years ace has bookbinder. Famed Over the years his grew, and thousands flocked to him to receive his counsel and blessing. Rabbi Kaduri passed away one the 29th off Tevet off 2006, old 108. Hundreds off thousands attended his funeral in Jerusalem.
External links
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