Jewish Calendar Wednesday, February 15, 2023 24 Shevat, 5783
Jewish Calendar Wednesday, February 15, 2023 24 Shevat, 5783 Jewish History Zachariah's Prophecy (351 BCE) "On the 24th day of the 11th month, which is the month of Shevat, in the second year of the reign of Darius, the word of G-d came to Zachariah the son of Berechiah the son of Ido the prophet, saying: '...I will return to Jerusalem in mercy, my house will be built within her...and the Lord shall yet console Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem.'" (Zechariah 1:7-17) This was two years before the completion of the 2nd Temple on the 3rd of Adar , 3412 (349 BCE). Passing of Rebbetzin Menuchah Rachel (1888) Rebbetzin Menuchah Rachel Slonim, daughter of Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch and granddaughter of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi , was born on Kislev 19, 5559 (1798) -- the very day on which her illustrious grandfather was freed from his imprisonment in the Peter-Paul Fortress in Petersburg; she was thus named "Menuchah", meaning "tranquility"