Chof teves

Template:Missing calendar chof Teves is the twentieth day of the month of Teves.

Events in Jewish History

• 4965 - Rabbeinu Moshe ben Maimon (the Rambam), sage, physician and distinguished philosopher and author of 'Yad HaChazaka', 'Moreh Nevuchim' and more, passed away.
• 5244 - The Talmud Bavli was printed for the first time in Soncino, Italy.
• 5640 - Rabbi Yaakov Abuchatzeira, from the rabbonim of Morocco and author of 'Abir Yaakov', passed away.
• 5641 - Rabbi Shlomo of Sadigura passed away.
• 5741 - Rabbi Refael Eliyahu Eliezer Mishkovsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Kfar Chassidim, passed away.

Chabad Dates

Events

• 5567 - The Alter Rebbe participated in the Chanukas HaBayis celebration of R' Pinchas Reizes in Shklov, an event that marked a turning point in softening the opposition to Chassidus in the city.
• 5752 - A fire broke out in the office of the mazkir R' Leibel Groner.

Born

• 5680 - R' Binyomin Levin from the founders of Kfar Chabad.
• 5707 - Avraham Menachem Mendel Vechter, mashpia and Rosh Kollel in Nachalas Har Chabad.
• 5709 - Rabbi Yechiel Malov, from the Rebbe's shluchim in Rishon L'Tzion, educator who served as supervisor of the Ohalei Yosef Yitzchok network.
• 5729 - Rabbi Zalman Pinchas Notik, mashpia in Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Rishon L'Tzion, and among the mashpi'im of Anash in Yerushalayim.

Passed Away

• 5727 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deutsch, mashpia of Chabad chassidim in Kharkov and in his final years from the residents of the Crown Heights neighborhood.
• 5756 - Rabbi Yisroel Pevzner, from the members of the Chabad community in Samarkand, and among the distinguished Chabad chassidim in Ramat Gan.