Mar 25, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 561 B.C. that Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon and the conqueror of Jerusalem, died. Years before, Nebuchadnezzar had been told by the prophet Daniel that he, and by extension Babylon, was represented in a dream by a head of gold,...
Mar 24, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 1451 that Pope Nicholas the Fifth issued a bull banning all social interaction between Christians and Jews. His motivation for setting this boundary was a fear that Christians would become Judaized. Indeed, any Christian who converted to...
Mar 23, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day that two prominent events are believed to have occurred. The first is the dedication of the second Temple in 516 B.C; the second is the beginning of the consecration period for Aaron and his sons as they entered the priesthood. The latter is...
Mar 22, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It was on this day in the year 1917 that the provisional government of Russia, soon to be called the U.S.S.R., eliminated the restrictive laws that had been placed upon Jews under the reign of the Czars. This seeming tolerance for Jews enticed many of them to become...
Mar 21, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
After obtaining the blessing from his father Isaac, Esau determined to kill Jacob which forced Jacob to flee from him. As he fled toward Haran, Jacob came to a place that would later be called Beth-el, or “House of God.” It was in this place that the God of Abraham...
Mar 20, 2025 | All Posts, On This Day |
It’s believed in some sects of Judaism that, on this date in some future year, the Messiah, along with 30,000 pious men, will appear. That’s according to an Apocryphal work called Sefer Eliyahu. The prevailing belief in Judaism says we can’t possibly know the day or...
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