Adar II 5760 (March - April 2000)

Adar II 5760
March-April 2000

The zodiacal sign of this month is Pisces. Simeon is the associated tribe. In some years an extra month is added to the year which is called Adar Sheni ("Second Adar"). In such years the original month is called Adar Rishon ("First Adar"). The month consists of 29 days in regular years while in leap years Adar I consists of 30 days and Adar II of 29 days. The first day of Adar (of Adar II in a leap year) never falls on Sunday, Tuesday, or Thursday.

Theme: dispersing and reuniting

March 2000 / Adar II 5760

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			8/1	9/2	10/3	11/4
12/5	13/6	14/7	15/8	16/9	17/10	18/11
19/12	20/13	21/14	22/15	23/16	24/17	25/18
26/19	27/20	28/21	29/22	30/23	31/24

April 2000 / Adar II 5760

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1/25
2/26	3/27	4/28	5/29

New Moon - 1 Adar II - March 8, 2000

March 8, 1957 - Israel is forced by the United Nations and more specifically the United states to withdraw from the Gaza Strip taken in the Sinai Campaign. The entire Sinai was supposed to remain a demilitarized zone which it did until Egypt (Nasser) asked the UN to leave it in preparation for the 6-Day War, to which they complied with alacrity.

March 8, 1616 (20 Adar): "In Frankfurt, Vincent Fettmilch is hanged. That day is commemorated as a feast day known as 'Purim Winz' ('Purim of Vincent') with the reading of the Megillat Vinz composed by Elhanan b. Abraham Helin. Two years earlier, Vincent Fettmilch, a former pastry cook and leader of the 'Guilds,' calling himself the 'new Haman of the Jews' attacked the synagogue while the community was at prayer. Although many tried to organize a defense, they were soon overpowered and many took shelter in the cemetery while the community was destroyed."

March 9, 1949 - David ben-Gurion presented the first government to the Knesset.

Mar 16 - Mercury Passes 2.1 Degrees From Venus

Fast of Esther - 13 Adar II - March 20, 2000

Mar 20 - Vernal Equinox, 07:25 UT

Purim - 14 Adar II - March 21, 2000 - In a leap year Purim is celebrated in Adar II, according to Talmudic tradition, "because that was the date of the original Purim (which occurred in a leap year). The rabbis also wanted to bring the period of the redemption of Esther closer to that of the redemption of the Israelites from Egypt celebrated in the following month of Nisan." (Source: Ency. Judaica)

Shushan Purim - 15 Adar II - March 22, 2000 (Purim for Jews who live in walled cities - in Jerusalem)

The day that the draught of a women suspected of adultery was administered on. See Wormwood file for more info. Also read about the "whitening of sepulchres."

March 26, 1979 - Peace accord between Israel and Egypt is signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat.

March 30, 1218: Henry III of England enforced the Yellow Badge Edict. The badge was a piece of yellow cloth in the shape of the Tablets of the Law and was worn above the heart by every Jew over the age of seven.

Mar 30 - Moon Occults Neptune

Mar 31 - Moon Occults Uranus

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