•
1 Adar [II] (1167/4 CE) – Death of the
Ibn Ezra •
1 Adar (
circa 1663) – Death of the
Shach •
2 Adar (598
BCE) –
Jerusalem falls to
Nebuchadnezzar and
Jeconiah is captured. •
2 Adar (1941 CE) – Death of Rabbi
Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald of
Pupa •
3 Adar (515
BCE) –
Second Temple completed •
4 Adar (1307) –
Maharam's body ransomed 14 years after his death by Alexander ben Shlomo (Susskind) Wimpfen. •
4 Adar (1796) – Death of
Rabbi Leib Sarah's, a disciple of the
Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. One of the "hidden
tzaddikim," Rabbi Leib spent his life wandering from place to place to raise money for the ransoming of imprisoned Jews and the support of other hidden
tzaddikim. •
4 Adar [II] (1992 CE) Death of
Menachem Begin •
5 Adar (1st century
CE) –
Lulianos and Paphos voluntarily gave themselves up to be killed, to save innocent Jewish lives in
Laodicea. •
6 Adar (1
BCE) - The
Roman Senate confirms
Herod as King of Judea. •
7 Adar (1393
BCE) – Birth of
Moses •
7 Adar (1273
BCE) – Death of
Moses •
7 Adar (1828) – Death of Rebbe Isaac Taub of Kalov, founder of the
Kalover Hasidic dynasty, and a student of Rabbi Leib Sarah's. •
9 Adar (1st century
BCE) – Academic dissension between
Beit Hillel and
Beit Shammai, erupted into a violent and destructive conflict over a vote on 18 legal matters leading to the death of 3,000 students. The day was later declared a fast day by the
Shulchan Aruch, however, it was never observed as such. •
10 Adar (1799) -
Napoleon Bonaparte issues his proclamation inviting Jews to reestablish a homeland while campaigning in the Levant. •
11 Adar (18th century) – Death of Reb Eliezer Lipman (Elezer Lippe), father of the prominent Chassidic Rebbes Rabbi
Elimelech of Lizhensk and Rabbi
Zusha of Hanipol. •
13 Adar (474
BCE) – War between Jews and their enemies in
Persia (
Book of Esther, chapter 9). •
13 Adar (161
BCE) –
Yom Nicanor – The Maccabees defeated Greek Syrian general
Nicanor at the
Battle of Adasa during the
Maccabean Revolt. •
13 Adar (1895–1986) – Death of Rabbi
Moshe Feinstein •
14 Adar (474
BCE) –
Purim victory celebrated in the Persian Empire •
15 Adar (474
BCE) –
Purim Victory Celebrated in
Shushan •
15 Adar (1st century
CE) – Jerusalem Gate Day –
King Agrippa I (circa 21
CE) began construction of a gate for the wall of
Jerusalem; the day used to be celebrated as a holiday. •
17 Adar (522
BCE) – Yom Adar – the day the Jewish people left Persia following the Purim story •
18 Adar [1953] – Death of
Josef Stalin; brings to a stop the
Doctors' Plot •
20 Adar (1st century
BCE) –
Choni the Circle Maker prays for rain (
Talmud,
Taanit 23a) •
20 Adar (1616 CE) – 'Purim Vinz': downfall of
Vincenz Fettmilch and triumphant return of the Jews of Frankfurt under Imperial protection. The day was established as a community Purim for generations and to this day the Washington Heights community does not recite Tachanun on this day. •
20 Adar (1640) – Death of the "
Bach" •
21 Adar (Adar II, 1786) – Death of Rabbi
Elimelech of Lizhensk •
23 Adar (
circa 1312
BCE) –
Mishkan assembled for the first time; "Seven Days of Training" begin. •
23 Adar (1866) – Death of
Yitzchak Meir Alter, first
Rebbe of
Ger •
24 Adar (1817) – The
Blood Libel, the accusation that Jews murdered Christian children for their blood, declared false by
Czar Alexander I. Nevertheless, nearly a hundred years later the accusation was officially leveled against
Mendel Beilis in
Kyiv. •
25 Adar (561
BCE) – Death of
Nebuchadnezzar (
Jeremiah 52:31). •
25 Adar (1761) – Death of Rabbi
Abraham Gershon of Kitov the brother-in-law and leading foe-turned-disciple of the
Baal Shem Tov. •
27 Adar (561
BCE) – Death of
Zedekiah in Babylonian captivity.
Meroduch, Nebuchadnezzar's son and successor, freed him (and his nephew Jeconiah) on the 27th of Adar, but Zedekiah died that same day. •
28 Adar (from the 2nd century onwards) –
Talmudic holiday to commemorate the rescinding of a
Roman decree against
Torah study, ritual
circumcision, and keeping the
Shabbat. The decree was revoked through the efforts of Rabbi
Yehudah ben Shamu'a and his colleagues. (
Megillat Taanit, a
baraita on this matter can still be found in
Ta'anit 18a and
Rosh Hashanah 19a) •
28 Adar (1524) – the Jews of
Cairo were saved from the plot of
Ahmad Pasha, who sought revenge against the Jewish minister
Abraham de Castro who had informed Selim II of Ahmad's plan to cede from the Ottoman Empire. To this day, Adar 28th is considered the
Purim of Cairo, with festivities including a special
Megilah reading. ==See also==