Tevet

Gregorian new year

Holidays in Tevet

Community holidays

• 5 Tevet is celebrated as a holiday by Chabad Hasidim, commemorating the 1987 verdict concerning an inheritance claim on the books of Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn.

  Tevet in Jewish history and tradition

• 1 Tevet – Esther was taken to King Achashverosh's palace, leading to her becoming queen.
• 10 Tevet – Nebuchadnezzar II's armies besiege Jerusalem; now commemorated as a fast day.
• 10 Tevet – Esther appears before Achashverosh for the first time and is chosen by him to be the queen.
• 11 Tevet – Jews were expelled from Vienna, Austria, during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold the First.
• 17 Tevet – Shearith Israel, the first New York synagogue, erects its first building in Lower Manhattan.
• 20 Tevet – The first volume of the Babylonian Talmud, the tractate Berachot, is printed in Soncino, Italy.
• 22 Tevet – Expulsion of Jews from Portugal, four years after the expulsion from Spain.
• 24 Tevet – Jewish elders procure the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek for Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
• 24 Tevet - Death of the Alter Rebbe founder of the Chabad philosophy and author of the Tanya and Shulchan Aruch HaRav.
• 25 Tevet – Chovot HaLevavot published

• 28 Tevet – Shimon ben Shetach ejects the Sadducees from the Sanhedrin, replacing them with his Pharisaic disciples loyal to the Mishnah.