This Day, October 14, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 14680:Wamba, the Visigoth King of Hispania, abdicated. During his reign, he issued an order expelling the Jews from Spain. This was part of an on-going policy of abuse, mistreatment and...
View ArticleThis Day, October 15, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 15586 BCE (16th of Cheshvan, 3176): King Zedekiah was blinded and taken into captivity. He was the last king of Judea. Zedekiah’s ("Tzidkiyahu") original name was Matanya. He was torn between...
View ArticleThis Day, October 16, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 16521 BCE (10th of Tishrei): Darius, the Persian monarch under whose rule the Second Temple was completed, and six companions killed another claimant to throne and cemented his position as...
View ArticleThis Day, October 17, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 17832 BCE(7 Cheshvan 2928): This is considered the traditional date of the inauguration of the first Temple in Jerusalem by King Solomon. As far as many Jews are concerned, the dedication is...
View ArticleThis Day, October 18, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 1867 CE: Roman soldiers captured Gamla, a fortress in Israel's Golan region, and killed all its inhabitants. The ancient historian Josephus Flavius, a leader of the Jewish revolt against Rome,...
View ArticleThis Day, October 19, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 191187: Pope Urban III passed away. Urban was a supporter of the Crusades, the cause of so much Jewish misery. A large part of his papacy was spent in struggle with Frederick I, the Emperor...
View ArticleThis Day, October 20, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 201409 BCE (10 Cheshvan 2351): This is the traditional date of the death of Gad, son of Jacob, one of the Twelve Tribes (born 2196). 460: Aeilia Eudocia, the Byzantine Empress who allowed the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 21, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 211553 BCE(11 Cheshvan 2207): On the civil calendar, this date marked the death of Rachel, the matriarch and wife of Jacob, at the age of 36. She died during the childbirth of Benjamin, near...
View ArticleThis Day, October 22, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 22362: A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch. According to one source,the Christians living in Antioch who were angry with the Emperor Julian for the favor...
View ArticleThis Day, October 23, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 23521 BCE (17thof Tishrei):The first Babylonian record of Nebuchadnezzar III the usurper who challenged the rule of Darius, the Persian ruler under whose reign the building of the Second Temple...
View ArticleThis Day, October 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 2451: Birthdate of Titus Flavius Domitianus, who gained fame as the Roman Emperor Domitian. Domitian was the son of Vespasian and the brother of Titus, all three of whom played a key role in...
View ArticleThis Day, October 25, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 25732: Christian forces led by Charles Martel clash defeat the invading Moors at the Battle of Tours which is near Poitiers in modern day France. The victory at Tours ensured that Western...
View ArticleThis Day, October 26, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 261235: King Andrew II of Hungary passed away. During the reign of King Andrew II (1205–1235) there were Jewish Chamberlains and mint-, salt-, and tax-officials. The nobles of the country,...
View ArticleThis Day, October 27, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 27312: Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross which will join the Sword of Constantine to the Cross of Christ in the governing of the Roman Empire, much...
View ArticleThis Day, October 28, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 2897: Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. Trajan would not become Emperor until Nerva died in January of the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 29, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 29539 BCE: On the secular calendar, Babylon fell to Cyrus the Great of Persia. This is a significant date because it marked the start of the return of the exiles to Eretz Israel where the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 30, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 301207BCE: According to “three scientists from Beersheba’s Ben Gurion University” who used NASA date today is the date of the eclipse which is described in the Book of Joshua as God making the...
View ArticleThis Day, October 31, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
OCTOBER 31445 BCE: In Jerusalem Ezra, the Scribe reads the Scroll of the Law, the Torah, to the Jews of Judea as described in Nehemiah 9:1. 475: Twenty five years after the redaction of the Jerusalem...
View ArticleThis Day, November 1, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 11179: Philip II is crowned King of France. In 1180, Phillip would order the arrest of all Jews living in his realm based on charges of ritual murder. It should come as no surprise that two...
View ArticleThis Day, November 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A and Deb Levin Z"L
November 2655: The Ninth Council of Toledo which was held under the auspices of King Recceuith and would adopt a resolution “that all conversos, not only converted Jews also others who had come during...
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