October 2

825 BCE (22nd of Tishrei, 2936): According to traditionKing
Solomon bid farewell to the Jewish people who had come to Jerusalem for a
14-day ceremony dedicating the Holy Temple (1-Kings 8:66). King David had
brought the Ark of the Covenant u…

September 30

132
C.E. (10 Tishrei): On the secular calendar, Akivah ben Joseph known as Rabbi
Akiva passed away.  He was born in 50
C.E., twenty years before the destruction of the Second Temple.   According to tradition, he was an unle…

September 25

275: Marcus Claudius Tacitus appointed Roman emperor by the
senate. By now the Roman Empire was in decline and Emperor’s served at the
pleasure of the Army.  In the case of
Tacitus, that meant a mere six months. 
One of the Empe…

September 11

813:
Coronation of Louis the Pious who “faithful to the principles of his father
Charlemagne and granted strict protection to Jews, whom he respected as
merchants” and who like his father believed that ‘the Jewish question’ could be
solve…

September
7

70: On the secular calendar the date on which a
Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.

1191: The Crusader army led by King Richard the
Lionhearted defeated the army of Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf, north of Jaffa.
The …

September 4

476:
The German general Odoacer defeated Orestes and deposed the child emperor
Romulus Augustus marking the “official end of the Roman Empire.”  Actually, this was the end of the Empire in
the West. The Eastern Empire continued to rul…

August 23

634:
Umar began his reign as the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. Umar
overturned the ban on Jews worshipping in Jerusalem. Not only did he clean the
Temple Mount of Filth, he encouraged the formation of Sanhedrin when he invited
“70…