ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Sunday, December 3, 2023 20 Kislev, 5784
ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Sunday, December 3, 2023 20 Kislev, 5784 Chof Kislev - "Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism" Jewish History Ezra's Address (347 BCE) Ezra, head of the Sanhedrin and the leader of the Jewish people at the time of the building of the Second Temple, made an historic address to a three-day assemblage of Jews in Jerusalem , exhorting them to adhere to the teachings of the Torah and to dissolve their interfaith marriages (the Jewish people were on the verge of complete assimilation at the time, following their 70-year exile in Babylonia). Links: On Intermarriage Tanya Published (1796) The first printing of the "bible of Chassidism", the Tanya , the magnum opus of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chabad. Links: The Longer Shorter Way ; Lessons in Tanya (includes an English translation of the Hebrew text plus explanatory commentary in English) Laws and Customs "Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism" The Rosh Hashanah ("new year&quo