| Today is: Monday, Nissan 10, 5772 · April 2, 2012
• Today's 'Nasi': Dan
• Miriam's Passing (1274 BCE)
Miriam, the sister of Moses, passed away at the age of 126 on the 10th of Nissan of the year 2487 from creation (1274 BCE) -- 39 years after the Exodus and exactly one year before the Children of Israel entered the Holy Land. It is in deference to her passing that the "Great Shabbat" is commemorated on the Shabbat before Passover rather than the calendar date of the miracle's occurence, Nissan 10. Link: About Miriam.
• Israelites Cross Jordan (1273 BCE)
Three days after the two spies dispatched by Joshua scouted the city of Jericho (see entry for "Nissan 7" above), the children of Israel were ready to enter the land promised by G-d to their ancestors as their eternal heritage. As they approached the Jordan with the Holy Ark carried by the Kohanim (priests) in their lead, the river parted for them, as the waters of the Red Sea had split when their fathers and mothers marched out of Egypt 40 years earlier. (Joshua 4)
I am going to heaven; I leave you my writings
- Last words of Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch, Nissan 2, 5680 (1920)
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