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The Battle of Adasa was fought during the Maccabean revolt on the 13th of the month Adar (late winter, equivalent to March), 161 BC at Adasa (Hebrew: חדשה), near Beth-horon. It was a battle between the rebel Maccabees of Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee) and the Seleucid Empire , whose army was led by Nicanor .
The fast is observed on the 13th day of the Hebrew month of Adar (when the year has two Adar months, it is observed only in the second Adar). If the date of the Fast of Esther falls on Shabbat (Saturday), the fast is instead observed on the preceding Thursday, this was the case in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2024.
The book relates the story of a Jewish woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people. The story takes place during the reign of King Ahasuerus in the First Persian Empire. Queen Vashti, the wife of King Ahasuerus, is banished from the court for disobeying the king's ...
On 13 Adar, five hundred people who attacked the Jews and Haman's ten sons are killed in Shushan. Mordechai assumes a prominent position in Ahasuerus' court, and institutes an annual commemoration of the delivery of the Jewish people from annihilation.
17 Adar (522 BCE) – Yom Adar – the day the Jewish people left Persia following the Purim story [citation needed] 18 Adar [1953] - Death of Josef Stalin ; brings to a stop the Doctors' Plot 20 Adar (1st century BCE ) – Choni the Circle Maker prays for rain ( Talmud , Taanit 23a)
Rosh Chodesh of Adar 7 Adar February 19, 2021 Seventh of Adar: Starts at dawn. On Adar II on leap years, Adar I on non-leap years Movable February 20, 2021 Shabbat Zachor: Shabbat immediately preceding Purim. On leap years, this falls on the 1st of Adar II, or on the 1st of Adar II itself if it is Shabbat. Adar I on non-leap years. 13 Adar
Most modern scholars simply state that the text's terminus ad quem was the 10th or 11th century. [5] According to translator of the text, Fereydun Vahman, the origin of the story probably goes back to the 9th or 10th century and was from the Pars region. [8]
The story of Tel Hai is the essence of our story here, on this land. For seventy-five years, we have walked with this story, with Joseph Trumpeldor's last words: 'It is good to die for our country.' We have educated generations of fighters on these words." [49] The writer Yosef Haim Brenner wrote in response to the events of Tel Hai: