History events
1489 — (24th of Kislev, 5250) Joseph Günzenhäuser, Yom-Tov ben Perez and Solomon ben Perez ….. published “Hobot ha-Lebabot” (Duties of the Heart) by Bayha ibn Pakuda in Italy. Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived at Zaragoza, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. The same trio had printed “Eben Bohan” by Kalonymus ben Meir ben Kalonymus in August of 1489. Kalonymus was an author and translator who lived in Provence “Eben Bohan” (The Touchstone) was a seminal work on morality for the Jews living in southern France
1663 — (28th of Cheshvan, 5424) The Ascamoth (regulations and ordinances) the Sephardi Congregation of London were compiled today
1759 — (28th of Cheshvan, 5520) Following a mass baptism of Sabbatians at Lvov, ….. today Jacob Frank and his wife were baptized “under the patronage of the King of Poland” in the cathedral at Warsaw following which the Catholic Church rejected “the request of the Frankists that they be allowed to continue to live separately from other Christians and that they be permitted to wear Jewish clothing, to keep their sidelocks, avoid pork, to rest on Saturday as well as Sunday to retain use of the Zohar and other works of the Kabbalah
1760 — (10th of Kislev, 5521) First meeting of English Jewish Board of Deputies
1840 — (22th of Cheshvan, 5601) «Lehrerseminar» founded at Berlin
1939 — (6th of Kislev, 5700) Нolocaust ….. In Lodz, German-occupied Poland today, the German administrator issued a decree stating that “any Jew leaving his home without a special permit between 5 P.M. and 8 A.M. may be punished by death” and also made punishable by death the failure of any Jew, irrespective of age or sex to wear a yellow armband. In case of extenuating circumstance, a money fine of unlimited sixe or imprisonment or both may be adjudged
1941 — (28 Cheshvan 5702) Shoah. In the town of Sirotino, near Vitebsk, 316 Jews were shot.
1941 — (28 Cheshvan 5702) Shoah. A meeting of the leadership of the UPA «Polesskaya Sech» took place, where Captain K. Syholenko (also known as Haim Sygal, a Jew from Lviv) reported that the arriving SS Hauptsturmführer Gichke from Zhytomyr requested assistance in shooting the Jews of Olevsk; it was decided at the meeting to provide such assistance.
1942 — (9 Kislev 5703) Shoah. Another Jewish action began in Lviv
1943 — (20th of Cheshvan, 5704) Нolocaust. ….. In an attempt to hide the Holocaust from the westward moving Soviet Army, 300 Jews at Borki were told that they were to dig up the trenches of 30,000 dead humans in Borki and then burn them all. One thousand bodies were placed on each pyre. The bones were ground to dust and taken away. The graves were emptied, disinfected, filled with earth and grass was planted over them; During the Holocaust, as part of Aktion Emtefest, the Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, western Ukraine, murdering at least 6.000 surviving Jews. The German SS leader Fritz Katzman declares Lviv (Lemberg) to be Judenfrei (free from the Jews)
1948 — (16 Cheshvan 5709) Census statistics in Israel: 713,000 Jews, 69,000 Arabs.
1952 — (30 Cheshvan 5713) A. Einstein was offered the position of President of Israel, but since this was done informally, he declined.
1953 — (11 Kislev 5714) The Knesset passed a law on the National Insurance Institute
1958 — (6th of Kislev, 5719) Jerusalem’s new reservoir was opened ending a long history of water problems that made Jerusalem more vulnerable to siege.
1959 — (17th of Cheshvan, 5720) Opening of the Sephardic Bibliographical Exhibition in Madrid, Spain. ….. The Exhibition was in conjunction with the World Sephardi Federation, Arias Montano Institute, the faculty of Philosophy of the Madrid University as well as the Royal Academy of Spanish Language. The Exhibition demonstrated rare Sephardic documents, books, maps and material showing the life of Jews in Spain up to 1492
1965 — (23 Cheshvan 5726) Quotes and opinions. A. Nasser’s speech: «… our goal is to destroy Israel.»
1973 — (23 Cheshvan 5734) Israel. The government decided to establish a state investigative commission (the Agranat Commission), which will investigate the events leading up to the first days of the Yom Kippur War.
2006 — (27 Cheshvan 5767) Israel. The Geophysical Institute recorded an earthquake around 5 AM in the Jordan Valley. The magnitude of the tremors was 4.1 on the Richter scale.
2014 — (25 Cheshvan 5775) Terrorist attack. In Jerusalem, two Arabs stormed a synagogue on Rav Shimon Agasi street and attacked those praying, killing five and injuring several (see November 19, 2014).
2025 — (27 Cheshvan 5786) A terrorist attack at the A-Gush intersection in Gush Etzion. Two Arabs attempted to run over Israelis with a car, then jumped out of the vehicle and attacked people with knives, being shot by nearby soldiers. Aaron Cohen, 71, resident of Kiryat Arba, was killed; a woman around 40 years old, a man around 30 years old, and a 15-year-old teenager were injured.
People
1804 — (15th of Kislev, 5565) First observance Purim of Abraham Danzig which is also called Pulverpurim or Powder Purim. ….. Memorial Day established for himself and his family by Abraham Danzig, to be annually observed by fasting on the 15th of Kislew and by feasting on the evening of the same day in commemoration of the explosion of a powder-magazine at Wilna in 1804. By this accident thirty-one lives were lost and many houses destroyed, among them the home of Abraham Danzig, whose family and Abraham himself were all severely wounded, but escaped death Danzig decreed that on the evening following the 15th of Kislew a meal should be prepared by his family to which Talmudic scholars were to be invited, and alms should be given to the poor. During the feast certain psalms were to be read, and hymns were to be sung to the Almighty for the miraculous escape from death
1857 — (1 Kislev 5618) Hermann Burkhardt was born — a German traveler and photographer of Jewish descent, known for his photographs of Arabia in the early 20th century. He died on December 19, 1909.
1900 — I. Prut was born — a writer and playwright. He died on July 16, 1996.
1927 — E. Ryazanov was born — a director. He died on November 30, 2015.
1938 — V. Levi was born — a psychologist and writer
1944 — (2nd of Kislev, 5705) Thirty nine year old Enzo Serini, Havivah Reik, Raffi Reiss and Zvi Ben Ya’acov who were all Jews from Palestine who had parachuted behind German lines were murdered today at Dachau
1962 — (21th of Cheshvan, 5723) Niels Henrik David Bohr passed away
2000 — (3rd of Kislev, 5762) St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip
2002 — (13th of Kislev, 5763) Esther Galia, 48, of Kochav Hashahar, was killed in a shooting attack near Rimonim, on the Allon Road, some 15 kilometers northeast of Ramallah
2003 — (23rd of Cheshvan, 5764) Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack
2023 — (5 Kislev 5784) War with Gaza. Day forty-three. IDF offensive actions continued in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the Zeitun and Jabalia areas, with attacks on Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya, and Khan Younis. Reserve Sergeant David (Dudi) Digmi, 43 years old (killed on November 7), Staff Sergeant Shlomo Gurtovnik, 21 years old, Captain Eden Provizor, 21 years old, Staff Sergeant Adi Malik Harb, 19 years old, Staff Sergeant Shachar Friedman, 21 years old, Major Jamal Abbas, 23 years old from Pkiin, Sergeant Binyamin Meir Erli, 21 years old, Reserve Captain Roy Bieber, 28 years old were killed; one soldier was seriously injured. Air raid alerts were issued in Gush Dan and in settlements adjacent to the sector. Several rocket launches from Lebanese territory were recorded. In response, IDF tanks and air force attacked several Hezbollah observation posts. settlements adjacent to the sector. Several rocket launches from Lebanese territory were recorded. In response, IDF tanks and air force attacked several Hezbollah observation posts