This Day, March 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 3321: Roman Emperor Constantine named Sunday which had been a Roman pagan day for honoring the sun as a day of rest. This was an attempt by Constantine to close the gap between pagans and...
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March 4457BCE (1st of Nisan, 3303): According to chapter 7, verse 9 of the Book of Ezra, Ezra and his followers left Babylonia for Jerusalem1193: Saladin, the great Moslem leader, passed away. Among...
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This Day, March 5, In Jewish History, by Mitchell A. and Deb Levin Z"L
March 5363: Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring to his own death. Julian followed Constantine to the throne and...
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March 619 BCE (12th of Adar II, 3741): The Temple “built” by King Herod was dedicated. Technically, Herod had refurbished the Second Temple and not built a ‘third Sanctuary.”1239: With the Edict of...
View ArticleThis Day, March 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 7322 BCE: Aristotle passed away. “Aristotle was almost universally held in esteem by the Jews; at one time for his intelligence and mental power, at another as a penitent sinner. The following...
View ArticleThis Day, March 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 81126: Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca. Under the reign of Alfonso Christian Spain “became a refuge for the persecuted Andalusian Jews....
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March 9590: Bahram Chobin is crowned as King Barham VI of Persia. The newly crowned king enjoyed support among Persian Jews since opposing forces under a general named Mahbad “killed the Jewish...
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March 10515 BCE (Adar 5): According to Ezra VI, 15, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius, the Second Temple was completed today. (15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar,...
View ArticleThis Day, March 11, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
March 11222: Severus Alexander began his reign as Roman Emperor during which a table in Intercisa (Hungary) was inscribed as follows: “To the Eternal God! For the salvation of our Lord; the pious,...
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