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October 26

Hindu
YahrzeitHebrew-calendar remembrance

The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on October 26 this year.

  • R. Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish)d. 1953 CE

    Halachic authority; leader of Israeli haredi Jewry

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  1. 1999 CEHindu · died

    Eknath Easwaran, translator of the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads and founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, died on this day in 1999.

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