Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Chabad History 📅 Rabbi Israel Aryeh Leib Schneersohn Brother of ybl”ch the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory and merit Rabbi Israel Aryeh Leib Schneersohn was born in 1909 (5669) in the city of Nikolaev, Russia. From a young age he […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Masʿud ben Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzera 🕯️Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi ben Rabbi Moshe Steiner   👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Masʿud ben Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzera (Rissani, Tafilalt – d. 5668 / 1908) Rabbi Masʿud Abuchatzera was a revered scion of the illustrious […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Yitzchak of Radivil 🕯️Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz 🕯️ Rabbi Yehudah Tzvi Brandwein of Stretin   👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz Author of Ayelah Sheluchah and Zera Kodesh On Thursday, passed away the […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2,871 The death of Eily and his two sons Chofni and Pinchas and the capturing of the Aron Habris[1] Following the battle with the Philistines described in I Samuel 4, Israel was struck down, and thirty thousand foot […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 The Battle of Yehoshua against the Philistines at Even HaEzer “And the word of Samuel came to all Israel, and Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle. They encamped at Even HaEzer, and the Philistines encamped at […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF 📅 Today in Jewish History Table of Contents 📅 Year 4856 (1096) — The Persecutions of the First Crusade In the year 4856 (1096), during the course of the First Crusade, brutal persecutions were unleashed against the Jewish communities of Ashkenaz. On the eighth day of Iyar, […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 5058 — The Rindfleisch Persecutions In the year 5058 (1298), one of the most devastating waves of medieval anti‑Jewish violence swept through southern Germany and Austria, known in Jewish history as the Rindfleisch Persecutions. The massacres were […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 2449 – The story of the Mekoshesh Bieitzim The tradition records that on the Shabbatot following Pesach occurred the incidents of the Mekoshesh (the wood‑gatherer), discussed in Midrash Tanchuma, Shelach, and the Megadef (the blasphemer), addressed in […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Yom HaAtzmaut — Three Approaches and the Rebbe’s Perspective Within the Jewish world, Yom HaAtzmaut has been viewed through different lenses. The Religious‑Zionist perspective emphasizes open gratitude for the establishment of the State of Israel, seeing it as a […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 5708 (1948) — The Fall of Gush Etzion In the year 5708, during the final days before the proclamation of the State of Israel, the Gush Etzion bloc—a group of four Jewish settlements located in the Judean Hills south […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 5703 (1943) — Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto In the year 5703, during the days of Iyar, the Warsaw Ghetto—the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi‑occupied Europe—was destroyed and brought to its end. The ghetto, which had been […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Construction of the First Beit HaMikdash. In the year 2429, King Solomon began the construction of the First Beit HaMikdash. Scripture states: “And he began to build the House of G‑d in the second month, on the second day” […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History   📅 Year 2450 – The Jewish people are counted in the Wilderness On the first day of the month of Iyar, G‑d spoke to Moshe in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying: “Raise […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbeinu Yosef HaLevi ibn Migash 🕯️ Rabbi Chaim Vital — author of Kisvei Arizal 🕯️ Rabbi Avraham Breuda 🕯️ Rabbi Netanel Weil — author of Korban Netanel 🕯️ Rabbi Yaakov Emden   👤Their Background[1]   🕯️ 4901 — Passing of […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Moshe Shimshon Bacharach – Father of the Chavos Yair — 🕯️ Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapira of Shpitivka 🕯️ Rabbi Yehuda son of Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel 🕯️ Rabbi Moshe son of Rabbi Yisrael of Kobrin   👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ 1670 […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅  28 Nisan — The Fall of Jericho In the year 2488, on Shabbat, the walls of Jericho fell, as recorded in Joshua chapter 6. The city was conquered and burned, and Rahab and her family were spared, in fulfillment […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Segal 🕯️ Rabbi Yehuda Kohen — author of Kuntres HaSefekot   👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Segal Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib, son of Rabbi Shalom Segal, of Volchisk, of blessed memory, was a righteous and humble Torah […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️Yehoshua ben Nun 🕯️Rabbi Ephraim Navon — author of Machaneh Ephraim 🕯️ Rabbi Nachman of Nemirov — disciple of Reb Noson of Breslov, editor of Likkutei Halachos 👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ Yehoshua ben Nun Yehoshua ben Nun, the faithful disciple and successor of Moshe Rabbeinu, served […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Purim of Carpentras (France) Carpentras, located in Provence (Comtat Venaissin), was one of the four protected Jewish communities allowed to exist under papal rule after the expulsions from the Kingdom of France. Jews lived there in guarded quarters […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2449 – The First Shabbat at Marah In Year 2449 from Creation, only days after the Splitting of the Sea, the Children of Israel arrived at Marah in the Wilderness of Shur. This moment is traditionally […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 4907 – Persecutions during the Second Crusade in Cologne, Germany In Year 4907 (1147 CE), during the Second Crusade, Jewish communities in Cologne and surrounding regions of Germany suffered horrific persecutions. These events were so devastating that […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2049 – The Circumcision of Yitzchak Avinu According to tradition, Yitzchak Avinu was born on the first day of Passover, and his brit milah took place on the eighth day, as the Torah states: “And Abraham […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 1147 – Persecutions of the Second Crusade During the period of the Second Crusade, Jewish communities across parts of Western and Central Europe suffered renewed waves of persecution, violence, and forced martyrdom. These events, occurring decades […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 1147 – Persecutions of the Second Crusade During the period of the Second Crusade, Jewish communities across parts of Western and Central Europe suffered renewed waves of persecution, violence, and forced martyrdom. These events, occurring decades […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Yehoshua Falk ben Rabbi Alexander HaKohen Katz — author of the Sema on Choshen Mishpat and Derisha u‑Perisha on the Tur 🕯️ Rabbi Aharon “the Great” of Karlin — early Karlin‑Stolin leader 🕯️ Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu ben Rabbi Meir […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Meir ben Rabbi Todros HaLevi Abulafia of Toledo (the Ramah) 🕯️ Rabbi Yitzchak ben Rabbi Moshe Belmonte — author of Shaar HaMelech 🕯️ Rabbi Sasson ben Rabbi Moshe Persiado   👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Meir ben Rabbi Todros HaLevi […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Yirmiyahu (Jeremias) Löw — author of Divrei Yirmiyahu 🕯️Rabbi Yisrael Noach of Nezhin (the Maharīn) – Son of Tzemach Tzedek 🕯️ Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky of Skver (Reb Itzikl)   👤Their Background[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Yirmiyahu Löw — author of Divrei Yirmiyahu […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2048 – The Turning Over of Sodom and Amora According to tradition, the destruction of Sodom and Amora (סדום ועמורה) took place on the 16th of Nissan, immediately following the first night of Pesach.   📅 […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2 – Kayin and Hevel bring their Karban Adam HaRishon, Kayin and Hevel — On the night of the first Yom Tov of Pesach, Adam HaRishon told his sons Kayin and Hevel that just as in the […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2 – Kayin and Hevel bring their Karban Kayin brought an offering, and Hevel also brought an offering; Midrashic sources Bereishit Rabbah) associate this event with the night of Pesach / the Seder night   📅 […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 2048 — Bris Milah of Avraham Avinu  “Before a year had passed, Avraham Avinu was circumcised” It is taught that on the very day of Avraham Avinu’s brit milah, the angels came to visit him, and […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Year 3413 — Ezra’s Ascent and a Rabbinic Yahrzeit  “This is the ascent of Ezra from Babylonia” (Ezra 7–8). Ezra the Scribe journeyed from Babylon, departing from the River Ahava, and ascended to Jerusalem, leading a renewed […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Yehoshua circumcises the Jewish people Year 2489 — “And this is the matter of the circumcision that Yehoshua performed” (Joshua 5). After entering the Land, Yehoshua circumcised all those who had not been circumcised in the wilderness, […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 2448 Miracle of Shabbos Hagadol[1] On the 10th of Nissan was the day that Bnei Yisrael took a lamb for the Pesach offering, as is stated in the verse[2] “On the tenth of this month, they are […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Yosef Yuzpa ben Rabbi Zelikman Hahn of Nördlingen — author of Yosef Ometz, 🕯️ Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi ben Rabbi Naftali Yelish — author of Melo HaRo’im 🕯️ Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Rabbi Binyamin Beinosh Levin 🕯️ Rabbi Chaim […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Festival of Megillas Taanis for overcoming the Beitusim[1] On this day the festival of Shavuos was properly defined as to its correct time which is the 50th day from the harvesting of the Omer, overcoming the claim […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 Yehoshua Takes Leadership: The Spies, Rahab, and the Preparation to Cross the Jordan[1] – Year 2488 from Creation After the passing of Moshe, the mourning period for him of thirty days was completed on the 7th of […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits– 6th Nissan[1] 🕯️ Rabbi Shmuel Yehudah ben Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen of Venice 🕯️ Rabbi Chaim ben Rabbi Moshe Abulafia of Tiberias — rebuilder of the Jewish community of Tiberias 🕯️ Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ben Rabbi Yehudah Assaad […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt — author of Ohev Yisrael🕯️ Rabbi Shneur Zalman Fradkin of Lublin — author of Torat Chesed🕯️ Rabbi Malkiel Tzvi ben Rabbi Yonah HaLevi Tennenbaum of Lomza — author of Divrei Malkiel🕯️ Rabbi Tzvi […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today’s Yahrzeits 🕯️ Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Hirsch HaKohen of Ostraha — author of VeTzivah HaKohen 🕯️ Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi of Mecklenburg – author of HaKetav VeHaKabbalah, of blessed memory. 🕯️ Rabbi Yochanan Twersky of Rachmistrivka – son of the holy Rabbi Mordechai […]

Subscribe to Receive PDF Table of Contents 📅 Today in Jewish History 📅 A Day of Purification for All Israel In the year of the erection of the Mishkan, on this very day, the ashes of the Red Heifer were sprinkled for the first time upon the entire Jewish people, […]

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 […]