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Shevat 5

Barley for Passover wave offering planted

Othniel ben Kenaz becomes judge over Israel, Josh 15:16-17, Judg 1:13, 3:8, 9-11

Death of R. Judah Leib Alter, 1905, Sefat Emet

Death of Moses Mendelssohn, 1786

Death of R. Hayyim David Hazzan of Smyrna, chief rabbi of Jerusalem, 1869, Torat ha-Zevach

Birth of Benjamin Samuel Phillips, Lord Mayor of London, 1811

Birth of Ludwig Traube, medical professor, Ratibor, 1818

Birth of Solomon Buber, editor of Midrashim, Lemberg, 1827

Birth of Moses Maimon, painter, Wolkowyshski, 1860

Death of David Cassel, historian, Berlin, 1893

Death of Wilhelm von Rothschild, financier, Talmudic scholar, Frankfurt, 1901