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Tishrei 10

Yom Kippur

Akeidah

Birth and circumcision of Abraham

Birth of Ishmael

Ezekiel prophesy of dry bones, Ezek 40

Ninevites repent

Zechariah killed in Temple, 2Chron 24:21

Moses returns with second set of tablets

Birth of Rebecca

Jacob and Esau confrontation at Ne'ila

Death of Bilha, Jacob's wife

Jacob learns of "death" of Joseph

Start of Yom Kippur War, 1973

Tunis and Tripoli massacre, 1864

Emancipation of the Jews in Baden, 1862

Death of Eleazar b. Shammua, one of 10 martyrs

Death of R. Ahai b. Avuha, a savora, 511

Death of Shabbetai Zevi, pseudomessiah, 1676

Death of Samuel David Luzzatto, poet, Padua, 1865

Death of Abraham Mapu, novelist, 1867

Birth of George Gershwin, composer, 1898

Death of David Cohen de Lara, Hebrew author, Hamburg, 1674

Death of R. Meir Grotwohi, Koblenz, 1690

Birth of Albert Cohn, Orientalist and philanthropist, Pressburg, 1814

Death of Jehuda Scherschewsky, teacher at the rabbinical school at Wilna, Kowno, 1866

Death of Abraham Mapu, Neo-Hebraic poet, Konigsberg, 1867