ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Wednesday, 4 Sivan, 5783 May 24, 2023
ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Wednesday, 4 Sivan, 5783 May 24, 2023 Omer: Day 48 - Yesod sheb'Malchut Tonight Count 49 Jewish History Moses Transcribes (first part of) Torah (1313 BCE) On Sivan 4 of the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE)--two days before the revelation at Mount Sinai--Moses wrote down the first 68 chapters of the Torah, from Genesis 1:1 ("In the Beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth") to the Giving of the Torah in Exodus 19 (Exodus 24:4; Rashi ibid.). Link: How and When was the Torah Written? Forced Conversion in Clermont (576) A mob, accompanied by the bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, France, razed the local synagogue to the ground. The bishop then informed the Jews that he, as bishop, could have but one flock, and unless they were willing to embrace Christianity, they must leave the city. Five hundred Jews were forced to be baptized and the remainder fled to Marseilles. Jews Returned to Spain (1481) Pope Sixtus IV instructed his local bishops that all