HeyJaredDUST AND STARS: Today in Jewish History
A day-by-day glance into 4,000 years of a most unlikely story
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OCTOBER 1/TISHREI 20 (opens the original)
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SEPTEMBER 30/TISHREI 19 (opens the original)
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5558 (1797):Yahrzeit of Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer, known as the Gaon (genius) of Vilna, the outstanding talmudic personality of the 18th century. At age three he already knew the entire Bible by heart, and legend has it that by age twelve he was able to kabbalistically create a Golem (life out of formless mass). He was known to have slept only two hours per day, in six 20-minute intervals. He wrote more than 70 commentaries on all the classical Jewish works -- Bible, Talmud, Code of Jewish Law, plus
SEPTEMBER 29/TISHREI 18 (opens the original)
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5572 (1811):Yahrzeit of Rabbi Nachman, one of the most original thinkers to have emerged from the Chasidic world, founder of the Breslov Chasidim, great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, philosopher, author of The Thirteen Tales and Likkutei Moharan. Every year on Rosh Hashana, tens of thousands of Jews travel to Uman (Ukraine) to pray at his gravesite.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gZrA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F
SEPTEMBER 28/TISHREI 17 (opens the original)
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1852:Birthday of Henri Moissan, chemist who discovered the element fluorine, invented a furnace for vaporizing metals, devised an economical method for producing acetylene gas, and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1906.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" h
TRANSFORMATIVE ISRAELI INNOVATIONS (opens the original)
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Hi:After a year of weekly articles in the Friday Jerusalem Post magazine, last month I completed an additional year of monthly 2-page spreads. With yesterday’s Jerusalem Post, I am starting a new monthly series, parsing Dust and Stars—Today in Jewish History content in a non-time oriented format.Chayim Nachman Bialik said that as anti-Semitism continues to grow, “stories of Jewish ingenuity, perseverance, and resilience are necessary more than ever.”<spa
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