ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Monday, February 27, 2023 6 Adar, 5783
ChaBaD Jewish Calendar Monday, February 27, 2023 6 Adar, 5783 Torah Reading Tetzaveh: Exodus 27:20 - 28:13 Jewish History Moses Completes the Torah (1273 BCE) Moses completed the book of Deuteronomy, concluding his review of the Torah which he began several weeks earlier, on the 1st of Shevat. He then wrote down the completed Five Books of Moses, word for word, as dictated to him by G-d. This scroll of the Torah was put into the Holy Ark, next to the Tablets of Testimony. Links: Moses' Passing Giving of the Torah First Print of Torah with Onkelos & Rashi (1482) The first edition of the Five Books of Moses (Torah) with the Targum Onkelos (Aramaic translation of the Torah) and the commentary of the famed commentator Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, known as Rashi , was published on this date in 1482. It was published in Bologna, Italy, by Joseph b. Abraham Caravita, who set up a printing-press in his own home. Links: Onkelos Rashi Learn Torah With Rashi Passing of R. Shmaryahu Gur