Sefaria Jewish Calendar Thursday, 2 Av, 5783 July 20, 2023
Sefaria Jewish Calendar Thursday, 2 Av, 5783 July 20, 2023 Nine Days Torah Reading Devarim: Deuteronomy 1:1-11 Jewish History Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (1942) On the 2nd and 3rd of Av in the year 5702 from creation (1942 CE), more than 13,000 Jews were rounded up by French police and interred in the Vel' d'Hiv, an indoor bicycle stadium in the center of Paris. They were later transported to Auschwitz to be killed. Within days, the Vel' d'Hiv was cleaned up and ready for recreation. R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn Arrives in Israel (1929) In the summer of 1929, R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn , sixth Rebbe of Chabad, visited the Land of Israel (the only Chabad Rebbe to do so—see link below). The stated purpose of the trip was to pray at the gravesites of the righteous individuals interred there. Among the cities he visited during his two-week-long stay were Jerusalem , Safed , Meron , Tiberias , Hebron , and Tel Aviv. The Rebbe departed the Holy Land two days befor