Cheshvan 23
- Megillas Taanis says that this was a day of celebration because a foreign occupying army had built a house of ill repute in the Sanctuary. When the Hasmoneans were victorious they destroyed the building and found a storehouse of precious jewels. The jewels were subsequently hidden until the arrival of Eliyahu to determine if they are ritually pure or impure.
Cheshvan 24
- Anniversary of the sinking of the Patria, a ship full of refugees from the Holocaust, which was sunk in the Haifa Harbor.
Cheshvan 25
- Megillas Taanis tell that when the first exiles returned to Israel they tried to settle an area that was inhabited by Cuthities and were prevented from doing so. They then went to a place called YamBusti and built a walled town. After which other communities began to spring up nearby.
- Third anniversary of the Har Nof massacre.
Cheshvan 27
- Ethiopian Jews have a custom to commemorate 50 days after Yom Kippur the day on which Ezra and Nechemia had made a covenant with the nation. It is a day of fasting and self-reckoning similar to Yom Kippur.
- Yahrzeit of Rav Menachem Kasher, author of a number of encyclopedic works, most notably Torah Sheleima.
Cheshvah 28
- Yahrzeit of Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona. He was a prolific writer on Jewish law and ethics. His Talmudic commentaries on Berachos and Baba Basra are required reading for any serious student of those Mesechtos, as her his commentary on Pirkei Avos and Shaarei Teshuva.
Cheshvan 29
- Yahrzeit of Rav Yitzchok Isaac Chaver. He was known as the פה שלישי להגרא, the third in line in the transmission of the teachings of the Gaon of Vilna. His Kabbalistic works were very influential on me when I initially began exploring Kabbala. He wrote super-commentaries on many of the writings of the GRA.
- Ninth anniversary of the Mumbai massacre.
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