This Day, November 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 151215: Pope Innocent III opened the convocation of the Fourth Lateran Council, considered the most important council of the Middle Ages. By its conclusion it issued seventy reformatory...
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November 16 42 BCE: Birthdate of Tiberius, 2nd Roman emperor. The stepson of Augustus reigned from 14 to 37 C.E. A competent general with a sour disposition, Tiberius came to the thrown through the...
View ArticleThis Day, November 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 179CE: Birthdate of Titus Flavius Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor put down the Judean Revolt which included the destruction of the Second...
View ArticleThis Day, November 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 181095: Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont. Summoned to plan the First Crusade, it was attended by over 200 bishops. Among its official policies, the Council decreed that a...
View ArticleThis Day, November 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 191095: The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. The Crusades ushered in one of the darkest periods in Jewish history....
View ArticleThis Day, November 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 20331 BCE (21st of Kislev, 3431): According to the Talmud, Simeon the Just destroyed the Samaritan Temple at Mount Gerizim. The Samaritans had undermined the efforts during the post-exilic...
View ArticleThis Day, November 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 21456 BCE (20th of Kislev, 3306): On November 21, Ezra called together all the men of Judah and Benjamin and told them that they would have to give up their foreign born wives. This was part...
View ArticleThis Day, November 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 221220: Frederick II, who would become the protector of the Jews in Frankfurt in 1236, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor today by Honorius III.1280: The 3 year reign of Pope Nicholas III whose...
View ArticleThis Day, November 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 23912: Birthdate of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy nor Roman. During his reign Rabbis living in the Rhineland addressed questions to the Rabbis in...
View ArticleThis Day, November 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 24166 BCE: According to secular calculations this date marked “The Origin of Era of the Maccabees.”655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and...
View ArticleThis Day, November 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 252348 BCE: According to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began on this date.407 BCE: Yedanaiah petitioned Bagohi, the governor of Yehud to...
View ArticleThis Day, November 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Lvin
November 2643 BCE: The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. This power sharing...
View ArticleThis Day, November 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 27 176: Emperor Marcus Aurelius grant his son Commodus the rank of Imperator and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. To the world at large Marcus Aurelius was “the...
View ArticleThis Day, November 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 281095: On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appointed bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land. The call for...
View ArticleThis Day, November 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 29800: Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III. Leo and Charlemagne were allies. Charlemagne would exonerate Leo of the charges and Leo would crown...
View ArticleThis Day, November 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
November 301215: The Fourth Lateran Council which had been led by Innocent III came to a close. The Fourth Lateran Council made first official use of the term "transubstantiation," with reference to...
View ArticleThis Day, December 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 1500: (Kislev 4428): This is the traditional date of the closing of the Talmudic era and the beginning of the Saboraic era. Saboraim is “the title applied to the principals and scholars of the...
View ArticleThis Day, December 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 2127 CE: In a document drawn up on this date at a government office in Rabbatg, east of the Dead Sea, four date groves in Maoza were registered by their owner as part of a provincial census...
View ArticleThis Day, December 3, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 3311: Sixty-sixty year old Emperor Diocletian passed away.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0005_0_05240.html1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who...
View ArticleThis Day, December 4, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
December 4771: King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the entire Frankish Kingdom. Following the death of their father, King Pepin the Short, the two brothers had each ruled a...
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