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September 3

JewishMesopotamian
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 3 this year.

  • R. Yonatan Eybeschutzd. 1764 CE

    Talmudist and kabbalist; rabbi of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek

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  1. 1905 CEJewish · born

    Nechama Leibowitz, the teacher and Bible scholar who revived close study of the weekly Torah portion, was born in Riga on this day in 1905.

  2. 1850 CEMesopotamian · born

    Friedrich Delitzsch, the German Assyriologist whose 'Babel und Bibel' lectures drew wide public attention to Babylonian and Assyrian texts, was born in Erlangen.

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