6 Teves
- Yahrzeit of Rav Yaakov Reischer (d. 1733) author of many important Halachic works and commentary on Ein Yaakov.
7 Teves
- Yahrzeit of Rav Moshe Dovid Valle (d. 1777). A doctor and close friend of the Ramchal, he authored the only known Kabbalistic commentary on the entirety of Tanach. On many books of the Tanach he wrote multiple commentaries weaving innovative pshat insights with Kabbalistic concepts. Over the past thirty years they have been published, as of now 28 volumes have been printed.
- Yahrzeit of Rav Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Ishbitz (d. 1854). His grandson referred to him as the only one to have the guts to say what the Baal Shem Tov really meant. His teachings and those of his descendants and student Rebbe Tzaddok of Lublin have had an indelible impact on Jewish thought.
8 Teves
- Anniversary of the completion of the Septuagint a day on which darkness descended onto the world. Some have the custom to fast on this day.
- Yahrzeit of both Ezra and Nechemia who were instrumental in the rebuilding of the Jewish community in Israel upon the return at the beginning of the Second Temple. Some have the custom to fast on this day.
- Yahrzeit of Rav Chaim Shur (d. 1632) author of important commentaries on the Talmud.
- In 1895 on this day Alferd Dreyfuss was publicly stripped of his military rank.
10 Teves
- Fast of the Tenth of Teves commemorating the onset of the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonian armies of Nevuchadnezzar. Two and one half years later the city capitulated and the Temple was destroyed.
- Yahrzeit of Rebbe Nosson (d. 1845), primary student and expositor of the teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.
12 Teves
- Yahrzeit of Rav Moshe Margolis (d. 1781) author of Pne'i Moshe, one of the primary commentaries on the Talmud Yerushalmi.
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