ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Shabbat, March 4, 2023 11 Adar, 5783
ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Shabbat, March 4, 2023 11 Adar, 5783 Zachor Torah Reading Tetzaveh: Exodus 27:20 - 30:10 Parshat Zachor: Deuteronomy 25:17-19 Zachor: Samuel I 15:1-34 Jewish History First Print of Rashi (1475) Rashi, the most basic commentary on the Torah, was printed for the first time, in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. In this print, the commentary on the Five Books of Moses, authored in the 11th century by Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, was not on the same page as the text of the Scriptures, as it is normally printed today. This was the first time that the rounded Hebrew font was used, the font which has since become known as "Rashi Letters." Links: Rashi Learn Torah With Rashi Passing of Rogatchover (1936) Rabbi Yosef Rosen, known as the Rogatchover Gaon (Prodigy/Genius), passed away in Vienna on Thursday, March 5, 1936. Rabbi Rosen, born in 1858, and raised in the Belarusian city of Rogatchov, served for decades as a rabbi in the Latvian city of Dvinsk (Daugavpils). He was ...