| Today is: Wednesday, Sivan 27, 5771 · June 29, 2011
• R. Chananya ben Tradyon Killed (2nd century CE)
Rabbi Chananya ben Tradyon, one of the "Ten Martyrs" (see entry for Sivan 25) was killed on this date. When the Romans discovered him teaching the outlawed Torah they wrapped him in a Torah scroll, piled bundles of twigs around him, and before setting him afire they placed damp woolen cloths on him to prolong the agony of being burned to death. As the flames engulfed him, his disciples asked him, "Master, what do you see?" Rabbi Chananya replied: "I see a scroll burning, but the letters flying up to Heaven." Links:
The Ten Martyrs
And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of a shofar exceeding loud... Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with G-d; and they stood under the mountain...
And G-d spoke all these words, saying: "I am G-d your G-d, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods beside Me..."
- Exodus 19:16-20:3
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