This Day, September 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 2119 BCE: Virgil, the classical Roman poet passes away. Eclogue 4, the so-called Messianic Eclogue, is the best known of Virgil’s Eclogues or “Selected Poems also known as Bucolics or...
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This Day, September 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
September 22 384: Roman Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, and Theodosius I forbid Jews from buying or owning Christian slaves. If any such slaves are found with Jews, they must be removed and sold to...
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September 23484 BCE: Birthdate of the very influential Greek playwright Euripides. Wherever Greek culture spread, writers attempted to create drama in the manner of Euripides. During the time of...
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September 24416: “Roman emperors Honorius and Theodosius II order that any Jews who have joined the Christian church to avoid punishments for crimes must be allowed to return to Judaism because, in the...
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September 25275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the pleasure of the Army. In the case of Tacitus, that...
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September 26 1087: Coronation of King William Rufus, the second son of William the Conqueror who “managed to prevent in England the massacres of Jews that occurred in Rouen, and across France and the...
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September 270070 The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem were battered down by the Roman army1331: Polish forces under Wladyslaw and his son Casimir defeated the Germanic Knights at the Battle of...
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September 28 48 B.C.E.: Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. While many Roman leaders get low marks in terms of Jewish History, Pompey rates at...
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September 29522 BCE: Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire. The success of Darius was good thing for the Jewish people. From the Book of...
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September 30132 C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi Akiva passed away. He was born in 50 C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple....
View ArticleThis Day, October 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 12016 B.C.E.: According to some the anniversary of the Origin of Era of Abraham on the secular calendar. The exactitude of this date is easily open to debate. There is a general agreement...
View ArticleThis Day, October 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
October 2825 BCE (22nd of Tishrei, 2936): According to traditionKing Solomon bid farewell to the Jewish people who had come to Jerusalem for a 14-day ceremony dedicating the Holy Temple (1-Kings 8:66)....
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OCTOBER 31189: Coronation of Richard the Lionheart (King Richard I) of England. “All Jews and women are barred from the coronation ceremony, but Jewish representatives are sent anyway with gifts in an...
View ArticleThis Day, October 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 4610: Heraclius attacks Constantinople, overthrows the Byzantine Emperor Phocas Augustus and proclaims himself Emperor. The Christian Emperor attacked his Persian neighbors to the east with...
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OCTOBER 5610: Phocas, the Byzantine Emperor during whose reign the Jews of Antioch revolted was murdered by his successor Heraclitus.871: A scribe stopped writing a ketubah that he had dated the 16th...
View ArticleThis Day, October 6, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 6877: Charles the Bald, King of France, passed away.Regardless of whatever others may think of him, Charles the Bald, who was King of France, comes up on the plus side in Jewish history when...
View ArticleThis Day, October 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 73761 BCE: According to some Jewish traditionalists, this corresponds to the date on which God created the World. This marks the start of the epoch of the Modern Hebrew calendar. The attached...
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OCTOBER 8314: In his quest to consolidate his power, Constantine I, the man who will become the first Christian Roman Emperor defeats his rival Licinius at the Battle of Cibalae. Constantine will...
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OCTOBER 9768: Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks. Charlemagne treated to his Jewish subjects well, even if it meant parting from the doctrine of the Church. For example, he...
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OCTOBER 10614: Today the fifth Council of Paris “prohibited the Jews from asking or from exercising civic or administrative rights.”680: At the Battle of Karbala, Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson...
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