Tevet
Tevet | |
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Persia. | |
Native name | טֵבֵת (Hebrew) |
Calendar | Hebrew calendar |
Month number | 10 |
Number of days | 29 |
Season | Winter (Northern Hemisphere) |
Gregorian equivalent | December–January |
Significant days | |
Tevet (
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
- 25 Kislev – 2 Tevet – Hanukkah (or 3 Tevet if Kislev is short)
- 10 Tevet – Tenth of Tevet (Asara beTevet), a fast day
Community holidays
- 5 Tevet is celebrated as a holiday by Joseph Isaac Schneersohn.
In Jewish history and tradition
- 1 Tevet (Achashverosh's palace, leading to her becoming queen (Book of Esther2:16-17).
- 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 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) –
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