Adar - Adar in Jewish History

Adar in Jewish History

1 Adar - (1313 BCE) - Plague of Darkness

1 Adar - (1164) - Death of the Ibn Ezra

1 Adar - (circa 1663) - Death of the Shach

3 Adar - (515 BCE) - Second Temple completed

4 Adar - (1307) - Maharam's body ransomed

4 Adar - (1796) - Death of Rabbi Leib Sarah's

7 Adar - (1393 and 1273 BCE) - Moses' birth and passing

7 Adar - (1828) - Death of Rebbe Isaac Taub of Kalov

11 Adar- 18th century - Death of Reb Eliezer Lipman

13 Adar - (522 BCE) - war against enemies of the Jews in Persia

13 Adar - (161 BCE) - Maccabee victory / Yom Nicanor

13 Adar (5746-1986) - Rabbi Moshe Feinstein passes away.
14 Adar - (1393 BCE) - Moses' brit milah

14 Adar - (522 BCE) - Purim victory celebrated

15 Adar - (522 BCE) - Purim Victory Celebrated in Shushan
15 Adar - (1st century CE) - Jerusalem Gate Day

20 Adar - (1st century BCE) - Choni the Circle Maker prays for rain

20 Adar - (1640) - Death of the "Bach"

21 Adar (Adar II in leap years)- (1786) - Death of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk

23 Adar - (1312 BCE) - Mishkan assembled for the 1st time; "Seven Days of Training" begin.

23 Adar - (1866) - Death of 1st Rebbe of Ger

24 Adar - (1817) - Blood Libel declared false

25 Adar - (561 BCE) - Nebuchadnezzar died

25 Adar - (1761) - Death of Rabbi Abraham Gershon of Kitov

27 Adar - (561 BCE) - Death of Zedekiah

• Zedekiah was the last king of the royal house of David to reign in the Holy Land. He ascended the throne in 597 BCE, after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia (to whom the Kingdom of Judah was then subject) exiled King Jeconiah (Zedekiah's nephew) to Babylonia . In 588 BCE Zedekiah rebelled against Babylonian rule, and Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem (in Tevet 10 of that year); in the summer of 586 BCE the walls of Jerusalem were penetrated, the city conquered, the (first) Holy Temple destroyed, and the people of Judah exiled to Babylonia. Zedekiah tried escaping through a tunnel leading out of the city, but was captured; his sons were killed in front of him, and then he was blinded. Zedekiah languished in the royal dungeon in Babylonia until Nebuchadnezzar's death in 561 BCE. Meroduch, Nebuchadnezzar's son and successor, freed him (and his nephew Jeconiah) on the 27th of Adar, but Zedikiah died that same day.

28 Adar - (from the 2nd century onwards) - Talmudic holiday

• In Talmudic times, Adar 28 was established as a minor festival 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)

• In 1524, the Jews of Cairo were delivered on the 28th of Adar from the plot of Ahmad Pasha who sought revenge against the Jewish minter 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.

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