APRIL 26/NISSAN 28

שבת פרשת שמיני

2488 (1273 BCE):

After circling the walls of Jericho one time each day for the previous six days, Yehoshua (Joshua) and the army marched around Jericho seven times, accompanied by the Holy Ark. After blowing the shofar, the walls miraculously crashed and sank, leaving the city open and unprotected. Jericho was easily conquered, becoming the first fortified Canaanite city to fall to the Children of Israel in their conquest of the Promised Land (Joshua 6).

Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld (Public Domain)

1655:

The directors of the Dutch West India Co. refused to grant permission to Governor Peter Stuyvesant to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam. They also specified that Jewish settlers could own land and that no trade restrictions be imposed upon them.

Public Domain