| Today is: Sunday, Tammuz 11, 5772 · July 1, 2012
• Purim Tammuz (Algiers) (1774)
In 1774, the Spanish General O'Reilly attacked the city of Algiers and was successfully repulsed by the Dey of Algiers, Mohammed ibn Uman. Tradition has it that flames came out of the graves of the great Rabbis Isaac ben Sheshet and Solomon ben Simon Duran and contributed to the Spanish defeat. To celebrate the miracle of having escaped Spanish rule, the Jews of Algiers instituted a "Purim" on the 11th of Tammuz. Link: Rabbi Isaac Bar Sheishes (Ribash)
Therefore man was created a single individual: to teach us that whoever destroys a single life, it is as if he destroyed the entire world; and whoever sustains a single life, it is as if he sustained the entire world
- Talmud
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