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10th month of the Hebrew calendar
Tevet (
Hebrew : טֵבֵת ,
Standard Ṭevet ;
Tiberian Ṭēḇēṯ ; from
Akkadian
ṭebētu ) is the fourth month of the civil year and the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year on the
Hebrew calendar . It follows
Kislev and precedes
Shevat . It is a month of 29 days. Tevet usually occurs in December–January on the
Gregorian calendar . In the
Babylonian calendar its name was Araḫ Ṭebētum, the "muddy month".
Gregorian new year
The
Gregorian New Year's Day (1 January) nearly always occurs in this month. Only rarely will it occur in either of the two neighbouring months (Kislev or Shevat).
Holidays
5 Tevet is celebrated as a holiday by
Chabad Hasidim, commemorating the 1987 verdict concerning an inheritance claim on the books of Rabbi
Joseph Isaac Schneersohn .
In Jewish history and tradition
1 Tevet (
circa 479 BC) –
Esther was taken to King
Achashverosh 's palace, leading to her becoming queen (
Book of Esther 2:16-17).
10 Tevet (588 BC) –
Nebuchadnezzar II 's armies besiege
Jerusalem ; now commemorated as a fast day.
9 Tevet (1066) – The
1066 Granada massacre takes place, as a Muslim mob massacres 4,000 Jews throughout the city.
10 Tevet (479 BC) – Esther appears before Achashverosh for the first time and is chosen by him to be the queen.
11 Tevet (1668) – Jews were expelled from
Vienna ,
Austria , during the reign of
Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold the First .
17 Tevet (1728) –
Shearith Israel , the first New York synagogue, erects its first building in
Lower Manhattan .
20 Tevet (1483) – The first volume of the
Babylonian Talmud , the tractate
Berachot , is printed in
Soncino, Italy .
22 Tevet (1496) – Expulsion of Jews from
Portugal , four years after the expulsion from
Spain .
24 Tevet (3rd century BC) – Jewish elders procure the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek (
Septuagint ) for
Ptolemy II Philadelphus .
[1]
24 Tevet (1812) - Death of the
Alter Rebbe founder of the
Chabad philosophy and author of the
Tanya and
Shulchan Aruch HaRav .
25 Tevet (1559) –
Chovot HaLevavot published[
citation needed ]
25 Tevet (circa 332 BC) – Alexander the Great met the high priest after the Samaritans said the Jews intended to betray him.
[2]
28 Tevet (81 BC) –
Shimon ben Shetach ejects the
Sadducees from the
Sanhedrin , replacing them with his
Pharisaic disciples loyal to the
Mishnah .
[3]
See also
References
^ Mordechai Margoliouth (ed.), Halakhot Eretz Yisrael min ha-Genizah , Mossad Harav Kook: Jerusalem 1973, p. 141 (Hebrew)
^ Talmud Yoma tractate, 69a
^
"Day View" . Shimon ben Shetach successfully completed the expulsion of the Sadducees (a sect which denied the Oral Torah and the authority of the Sages) who had dominated the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court), replacing them with his Torah-loyal Pharisaic disciples
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