🗓️✨ 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 […]