Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Elazar ben Aharon HaKohen Burns the Parah Adumah[1]Elazar ben Aharon HaKohen burned the Parah Adumah in order to purify Bnei Yisrael from ritual impurity, preparing them to bring the Korban Pesach. This act of purification was essential […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 The Sixth Day of Creation and the Formation of Adam Harishon According to Rebbe Yehoshua (Year 0) The Talmud records a classic dispute (Rosh Hashanah 10–11) about when the world was created: Rabbi Eliezer holds that creation […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 29th Adar Today in Jewish History – 29th Adar[1] Blood Libel and Memory in Ashkenaz: A Chronicle of Persecution in 1096 In the grim year of 1096, as the armies of the First Crusade swept across Europe, the Jewish communities […]

Today in Jewish History – 28th Adar[1] The Day the Decrees Were Annulled — A Festival in Megillat Ta’anit[2] Today is recorded as a festival day in Megillat Ta’anit (chapter 12), because joyful news reached the Jewish people that they would not be severed from the Torah. The ruling empire had […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 27th Adar 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Rafael Moshe Bula — Author of Get Mekushar 🕯️ Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi Nathenson — Author of Shoel Umeishiv 🕯️ Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv — Author of Leshem Shebo Achlama Their Background[2] 🕯️ Rabbi […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 26th Adar   📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1]   🕯️ Rebbetzin Sarah Schenirer — Founder of Beis Yaakov Their Background[2] 🕯️ Rebbetzin Sarah Schenirer (1883–1935) Founder of the Beis Yaakov Movement Rebbetzin Sarah Schenirer was a visionary Jewish educator and the founder […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 25th Adar Today in Jewish History – 25th Adar[1] 🗓️ The Date of Creation according to Rabbi Yehoshua The Talmud records a classic dispute (Rosh Hashanah 10–11) about when the world was created: Rabbi Eliezer holds that creation took place […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 24th Adar Today in Chabad History – 24th Adar[1] 🗓️ The Rebbe Rayatz leaves Riga in route to the United States[2] On the 24th of Adar I, 5700, the Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (the Frierdiker Rebbe), departed from Riga on […]

Today in Jewish History – 23rd Adar[1] The Seven Days of the Milu’im — Preparing for the Dedication of the Mishkan Today begins the seven days of inauguration (the Days of the Milu’im) preceding the dedication of the Mishkan, which took place on Rosh Chodesh Nisan. During these days, Moshe […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 22nd Adar 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1]   🕯️ Rabbi Rafael Elazar Halevi — Author of Pekudas Eliezer 🕯️ Rabbi Yechiel Michel Halevi Epstien— Author of Aruch Hashulchan Their Background[2] 🕯️ Rabbi Rafael Elazar HaLevi — Author of Pekudas Eliezer Rabbi Rafael […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1]   🕯️ Rabbi Meir Schiff — Author of Maharam Schiff 🕯️ Rabbi Elimelech Lipman of Lezhensk— Author of Noam Elimelech 🕯️ Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanon Spektor— Author of Beir Yitzchak Their Background[2] 🕯️ Rabbi Meir Schiff (Maharam Schiff) […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History Today in Jewish History – 20th Adar[1] 🗓️ The Story of Ḥoni HaMe’agel[2] On the 20th of Adar the Jewish people fasted for rain to fall and the rain fell. The story is as follows: During the Second Temple period, […]

✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History Today in Jewish History – 19th Adar 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1]   🕯️ Rabbi Shmuel Engel — Author of Shut Maharash Engel 🕯️ Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonenfeld — Author of Salmas Chaim Their Background[2] 🕯️ Rabbi Shmuel Engel (1853–1935) was one […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History Today in Jewish History – 13th Adar 🗓️ The Day the Jews Prevailed Over Their Enemies (3405 / 356 BCE) On the 13th of Adar in the year 3405 from Creation, Jews across the provinces of King Achashverosh’s empire gathered to […]

Yom Turinos of Megilas Taanis[1] Today, the 12th of the month of Adar, is recorded in Megillat Taʿanit Chapter 12 as a Yom Turinos. In the month of Adar, on the twelfth day, the Roman ruler Turnus Rufus seized the brothers Lulianus and Pappus in the city of Lod (Laodicea) […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1] 🕯️Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulaiy, The Chida 🕯️Rabbi Shmuel Shtrashon, The Rashash on the Talmud 🕯️Rabbi Avraham Borenshtein, Author of Avnei Nezer and Iglei Tal 🕯️Rabbi Mordechai Pozner (d. 1823), Brother of the Alter Rebbe 🕯️Rabbi Yosef […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[1]   🕯️Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi — Author of Avodas Hagershoni Their Background[2] 🕯️Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi (c. early 17th century–1693) was a leading Ashkenazic Talmudist and halakhic authority of early modern Europe. He studied under several of the foremost […]

🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History Yom Tov of Megilas Taanis Today, the 9th of the month of Adar, is recorded in Megillat Taʿanit Chapter 12 as a Yom Tov or “Yom Teruas Mitra”. It is a day of celebration marking the blessing of rainfall following […]

Yom Tov of Megilas Taanis Today, the 8th of the month of Adar, is recorded in Megillat Taʿanit Chapter 12 as a Yom Tov or “Yom Teruas Mitra”. It is a day of celebration marking the blessing of rainfall following a prolonged period of fasting and supplication which preceded a […]