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January 28

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YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on January 28 this year.

  • R. Shalom Sharabi (the Rashash)d. 1777 CE

    Yemenite-born kabbalist; head of the Beit El yeshiva in Jerusalem

  • R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (Rebbe Rayatz / Frierdiker Rebbe)d. 1950 CE

    Sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch

  1. 1950 CEJewish · died

    Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch who rebuilt the movement after emigrating to America, died in New York.

  2. 1369 CEChristian

    The remains of the theologian Thomas Aquinas were solemnly transferred to the Dominican church in Toulouse, the event his later feast day commemorates.

  3. 2014 CEBuddhist · died

    Gudō Wafu Nishijima, the Japanese Sōtō Zen priest who produced a complete English translation of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, died at 94.

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