Tevet

Ask a question about 'Tevet' Start a new discussion about 'Tevet' Answer questions from other users Full Discussion Forum

Gregorian new year

Holidays in Tebet

Tebet in Jewish history

• From the Book of Esther
  Book of Esther
  
  The Book of Esther is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh and of the Historical Books of the Old Testament. The Book of Esther or the Megillah is the basis for the Jewish celebration of Purim....
   2:16-17, "and Esther was taken to King Achashwerosh, to his palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebet, in the seventh year of his reign. And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and kindness more than all the virgins; he placed the royal crown
  Crown (headgear)
  
  A crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents Political power, legitimacy, Crown of Immortality, righteousness, victory, Roman triumph, resurrection, honour and glory of life after death....
   on her head and made her queen in Vashti
  Vashti
  
  Vashti is mentioned in the Book of Esther, a book included in the Hebrew Bible . Vashti is also the name of one of the principal characters in E....
  's stead." Six years later, Purim
  Purim
  
  Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman 's plot to annihilate them, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible Book of Esther ....
   would occur on the 13th and 14th of Adar
  Adar
  
  Adar is the sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the religious year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a winter month of 29 days. In leap years, it is preceded by a 30-day intercalary month named Adar Aleph , Adar Rishon or Adar I and it is then itself called Adar Bet , Adar Sheni or Adar II....
   of the Hebrew year 3504 (356 BCE
  Common Era
  
  Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
  ).

• This was the second attempt to translate the Torah into Greek (there was an unsuccessful attempt 61 years earlier), the ruling Greek
  Greeks
  
  The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
  -Egyptian
  Ancient Egypt
  
  Ancient Egypt was an Ancient history civilization in eastern North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile in what is now the modern nation of Egypt....
   emperor Ptolemy
  Ptolemy
  
  Claudius Ptolemaeus , known in English as Ptolemy , was a Roman Greek mathematics, Greek astronomy, geographer and astrologer. He lived in History of Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the Thebaid called Ptolemais Hermiou; he died in Alexandria around 168 AD....
   according to legend, gathered 72 Torah sages, had them sequestered in 72 separate rooms, and ordered them to each produce a translation. On the 8th of Tebet of the Hebrew year 3515 (246 BCE
  Common Era
  
  Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
  ) they produced 72 independent translations, including identical changes in 13 places (where they each felt that a literal translation would constitute a corruption of the Torah's true meaning]]). This Greek rendition became known as the Septuagint
  Septuagint
  
  The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
  , "of the seventy" (though later versions that carry this name are not believed to be true to the originals). Greek became a significant second language among Jews as a result of this translation. During Talmudic times, Tebet 8 was observed by some as a fast day, expressing the fear of the detrimental effect of the translation.

• *Ezra
  Ezra
  
  Ezra was a Jewish priestly scribe who led about 5,000 Babylonian captivity living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem in 459 BC. Ezra reconstituted the dispersed Jewish community on the basis of the Torah and with an emphasis on the law....
  , who led the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel
  Land of Israel
  
  For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
   after the Babylonian exile (423-353 BCE), oversaw the building of the Second Temple
  Second Temple
  
  The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Judaism worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot....
  , canonized the 24 books of the Bible and, as head of the "Great Assembly
  Great Assembly
  
  According to Judaism, the Great Assembly or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah , also known as the Great Synagogue, was an assembly of 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, in the period from the end of the prophets up to the time of the development of Rabbinic Judaism, marking a transition from an era of prophets to an era of Rabbis....
  " legislated a series of laws and practices (including formalized prayer]]) which left a strong impact to Judaism until even this day. He died on the 9th of Tebet of the Hebrew year 3448 (313 BCE, which is exactly 1000 years after the Torah was given on Mount Sinai]]). The death of Ezra marked the end of what is called the "Era of Prophesy
  Prophet
  
  In religion, a prophet is a person who has claimed to have encountered the supernatural or the Divinity, often one who serves as an intermediary with humanity....
  ."

• On the 10th of Tebet, the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar
  Nebuchadnezzar
  
  Nebuchadnezzar was the name of several kings of Babylonia.* Nebuchadrezzar I, who ruled the Babylonian Empire in the 1100s BC. His death causes the Chaldean Empire to crumble and fall 30 years after his death....
   laid siege
  Siege
  
  A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by Battle of attrition and/or assault. The term derives from sedere, Latin for "to sit." A siege occurs when an attacker encounters a city or fortress that cannot be easily taken by a coup de main and refuses to surrender ....
   to Jerusalem
  Jerusalem
  
  Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
  . Thirty months later, on Tammuz
  Tammuz (month)
  
  Tammuz is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a summer month of 29 days....
   17, the city walls were breached, and on Av
  AV
  
  Av may mean:* Av , a month in the Hebrew calendar* Av is a common abbreviation for aperture priority on a camera mode dial.aV may mean:...
   9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were then exiled to Babylonia
  Babylonia
  
  Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia , Babylon as its franklin. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad....
   for 70 years.

• In 1684, a group of Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews
  
  Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the crypto-Judaism communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on....
   who fled the Spanish Inquisition
  Spanish Inquisition
  
  The Spanish Inquisition was an ecclesiastical tribunal established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile....
   held a Rosh Hashanah
  Rosh Hashanah
  
  Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday commonly referred to as the "Judaism New Year." It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, as ordained in the Torah, in ....
   service in New Amsterdam
  New Amsterdam
  
  New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonization of the Americas settlement that later became New York City.The town developed outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland Territory which was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude as a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic as of 1624....
  , and subsequently founding the congregation Shearith Israel ("Remnant of Israel"). On this 17th of Tebet in 1728, the congregation purchased a lot in Lower Manhattan
  Lower Manhattan
  
  Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the New York City....
   and erected the first synagogue in New York.

• Rabbi Aaron Zelig ben Joel Feivush of Ostrog
  Ostrog
  
  Ostrog can refer to:*Ostrog, Slovenia, a settlement in ?entjernej municipality in Slovenia*Ostrog Monastery, a monastery of the Serb Orthodox Church in Montenegro...
  , Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  , who authored of Toldot Aaron, died on Tebet 17 of the Hebrew year 5515 (1754).

• Tebet 17 is also the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of Rabbi Yaakov Wolf Krantz (1740-1804), the Maggid (itinerant preacher) of Dubna
  Dubna
  
  Dubna is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Moscow Oblast, Russia, under immediate jurisdiction of Moscow Oblast. It has a status of naukograd, housing an international nuclear physics research centre , one of the largest scientific foundations in the country....
  , who is particularly known for the parables (meshalim) he employed in his sermons and writings.
  

• The Exilarch ("Resh Galuta") of Babylonian Jewry, Huna Mori bar Mor Zutra, was executed in Pumpeditha by order of the Persian emperor on the 18th of Tebet of the Hebrew year 4229 (469 CE
  Common Era
  
  Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
  ). Also killed on that day was Rav Mesharshia bar Pekod ([he third Jewish leader who was arrested with them, Rab Amemor bar Mor Yenuka, was executed two months later).

• The 18th of Tebet the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Shapiro of Dynov (1783?-1841), author of the Chassidic work B'nei Yissacha

• The 19th of Tebet is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of American Jewish philanthropist
  Philanthropist
  
  A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable organization....
  , Judah Touro
  Judah Touro
  
  Judah Touro was an United States businessman and philanthropist....
   (1775-1854).

• Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, a famous Talmudist, Halachist, physician
  Physician
  
  A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
  , philosopher and communal leader, and known by the acronym "Rambam" as well as "Maimonides
  Maimonides
  
  Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon , the Rambam, and Musa ibn Maymun , was born in C?rdoba, Spain, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204.....
  ", died in Egypt
  Egypt
  
  Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
   on the 20th of Tebet in 1204.

• The first volume of the Babylonian Talmud, the tractate Berachot
  Berakhot (Talmud)
  
  Berakhot is the first masekhet of Zeraim of the Mishnah, the first major text of Jewish law. It primarily addresses the rules regarding the Shema Yisrael, the Amidah, Birkat Hamazon , Kiddush , Havdalah and other blessings and prayers....
  , was printed in Soncino, Italy
  Soncino, Italy
  
  Soncino is a comune in the Province of Cremona in the Italy region Lombardy, located about 60 km east of Milan and about 30 km northwest of Cremona....
  , on the 20th of Tebet of the Hebrew year (1483).

• Four years after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
   (1492), many of whom found refuge in the neighboring country of Portugal
  Portugal
  
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  , a decree was issued giving all the Jews living in Portugal one year to either convert to Christianity
  Christianity
  
  Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
   or leave the country. The Inquisition would last for the next 350 years, persecuting, torturing and burning at the stake thousands of "marranos" throughout Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
  , Portugal
  Portugal
  
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
   and their colonies for continuing to secretly practice the Jewish faith.

• In the yearbook of the Meisel Synagogue in Prague, the 22nd of Tebet is designated to commemorate the escape of Yosef Thein from the gallows in the Hebrew year 5383 (1622).

• The founder of Chabad
  Chabad
  
  *Chabad is an acronym for Chochmah, Binah, and Da'at, the three levels of Sefirot related to cognition according to the Kabbalah.*Chabad-Strashelye, Strashelye is a branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism....
   Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), died on the eve of the 24th of Tebet, at approximately 10:30 pm, shortly after reciting the Havdalah
  Havdalah
  
  Havdalah is a Judaism ceremony that marks the symbolic end of Shabbat and holidays, and ushers in the new week. In Judaism, Shabbat ends?and the new week begins?at nightfall on Saturday....
   prayer, which marks the end of Shabbat
  Shabbat
  
  Shabbat or Shabbos , is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis, after the six days of creation. Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night....
  .

• A devastating earthquake struck northern Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  , killing four thousand Jews in Safed
  Safed
  
  Safed is a city in the North District of Israel of Israel and a center for Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism. At an elevation of 800 meters above sea level, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee....
   and between 700 to 1000 Jews in Tiberias
  Tiberias
  
  Tiberias is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. It was named in honour of the emperor Tiberius....
  .
  

• The first hospital in America under Jewish direction, Mount Sinai Hospital
  Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
  
  Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. In 2008 it was ranked as one of the best hospitals in the U.S....
  , was founded in New York on the 24 of Tebet in 1852.

• Chovat Halvavot, the classical work on Jewish ethics, and who was authored by Rabbi Bachya ben Yosef ibn Paquda
  Bahya ibn Paquda
  
  Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived at Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century. He is often referred to as Rabbeinu Bachya....
   on or before 1161, and translated into Hebrew from the original Arabic by the famed translator Rabbi Judah idn Tibbon in 1167. It was first published on the 25th of Tebet of the Hebrew year 5319 (1559).

• This law was on condition that the Jew would accept the concept of reward and punishment in the afterlife
  Afterlife
  
  The afterlife is the concept of a continued existence for the soul, spirit or mind of a being after biological death. The major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism and metaphysics....
  . Maryland was founded as an asylum
  Asylum
  
  Asylum may refer:* Right of asylum, also known as Political asylum* Asylum seeker, also known as Refugee* Lunatic asylum, Insane asylum or Mental asylum, former terms for Psychiatric hospital, a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness...
   for Catholics in 1634, and in the early days the denial of Christianity was a capital crime in Maryland. Anyone speaking negatively about Mary
  Mary
  
  Mary is a common female first name, the English form of Miriam.Mary may refer to the following people:...
   or the Apostles was subject to a fine or public whipping. The practice of Judaism
  Judaism
  
  Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
   was not legalized in Maryland until 1776, but other restrictions remained in place. It was not until 50 years later that Jews became qualified for public office.

• Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
  Samson Raphael Hirsch
  
  Samson Raphael Hirsch was a Germany rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism....
   (1808-1888), a Talmudist, scholar, philosopher, prolific author and Rabbi of Frankfurt
  Frankfurt
  
  is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
   am Main died. He is noted for encouraging Orthodox Judaism to German Jewry, convincing thousands to the teachings of the Torah
  Torah
  
  The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
   at a time when assimilationist trends were very high for Jewish life in Western Europe
  Western Europe
  
  Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
  .

• Shimon ben Shetach successfully completed the expulsion of the Sadducees
  Sadducees
  
  The Sadducees were members of a Jewish sect and were rivals of the Pharisees , founded in the 2nd century BC. They ceased to exist sometime after the destruction of the second Temple in Jerusalem in 70AD....
   (a sect which denied the Oral Torah and the authority of the Sages) who had dominated the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court
  Supreme court
  
  A supreme court, also called a court of last resort or high court, is in some jurisdictions the highest court within that jurisdiction's court system, whose rulings are not subject to further review by another court....
  ), and replaced them with his Mishnah
  Mishnah
  
  The Mishnah or Mishna is a major work of Rabbinic literature, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah....
   (loyal Pharisaic disciples), on the 28th of Tebet of the Hebrew year 3680 (81 BCE
  Common Era
  
  Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
  ).

• Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri
  Yitzchak Kaduri
  
  Yitzchak Kaduri, also spelled Kadouri and Kadourie , was a renowned Mizrahi Jews Orthodox Judaism Haredi Judaism rabbi and Kabbalah who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people....
  , known in recent years as "the eldest of the Kabbalists," in Israel
  Israel
  
  Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  , was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1898. As a youth, he studied under "Ben Ish Chai
  Ben Ish Chai
  
  Yosef Chaim was a leading Hakham , posek on Jewish law and Master Kabbalah. He is best known as author of the work of Halakha Ben Ish Chai , by which title he is also known....
  " (prodigy]]) by the sages of the venerable Baghdad Jewish community. In 1922, Rabbi Yitzchak emigrated to [[Palestine]] and joined the ranks of the Jerusalem Kabbalists, even as he earned his living for many years as a [[bookbinder]]. The Rabbi's fame grew over the years and thousands flocked to him to receive his counsel and blessing. He died on the 29th of Tebet of 2006, 108 years old. Hundreds of thousands attended his funeral in [[Jerusalem]].

Other languages

• "Tevetoglu" is the surname of Tarkan who is a Turkish
  Turkish language
  
  Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
   pop singer.