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Today is: Friday, Tevet 17, 5771 · December 24, 2010
• First New York Synagogue (1728)
In 1684, a group of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Inquisition (see "Today in Jewish History" for Tevet 22)
held a Rosh Hashanah service in New Amsterdam, thereby founding
congregation Shearith Israel ("Remnant of Israel"). On this 17th of
Tevet in 1728, the congregation purchased a lot in Lower Manhattan to
erect the first synagogue in New York.
• Passing of Toldot Aaron (1754)
Rabbi Aaron Zelig ben Joel Feivush of Ostrog, Russia, author of Toldot Aaron, passed away on Tevet 17 of the year in 5515 from creation (1754).
• Passing of Maggid of Dubna (1841)
Tevet 17 is also the yahrtzeit of Rabbi
Yaakov Wolf Krantz (1740-1804), the Maggid (itinerant preacher) of
Dubna, particularly known for the parables (meshalim) he employed in his
sermons and writings.
"Console, console My people," says your
G-d. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her, for she has become
full from her host, for her iniquity has been appeased; for she has
taken from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins...
- Isaiah 40:1-2 (read on the Shabbat after Tisha B'Av)
Chitas and Rambam for today:
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