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Seventh of Adar

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on the 10th of Nisan. Earlier, God had commanded Joshua to perform the crossing "in three days' time," thus this command was given on 7 Nisan. The command is specified as coming "after the death of Moses.". Moses had been mourned for 30 days after his death. Assuming that the Divine command
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In Israel, the Seventh of Adar is designated as a day in remembrance of those soldiers who have fallen in war, but whose bodies have not been found or identified, in reference to the Biblical verse noting that no one knows the exact burial place of Moses "even to this day". On
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immediately followed the end of the mourning period, Moses must have died 30 days before 7 Nisan, i.e. 7 Adar.
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The Seventh of Adar is a fast day in some Jewish communities. A special
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The Biblical sources suggesting these dates are as follows:
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Adar
Hebrew
Moses
fast day
Joshua
River Jordan

Garden of the Missing in Action
Mount Herzl
Jerusalem
tikkun
burial societies
Mount Herzl
"Zayin Adar: Paying Tribute to Chevra Kadisha"


"The Seventh of Adar"


Berenbaum, Michael
Skolnik, Fred
"Adar, the Seventh of"
Encyclopaedia Judaica
ISBN
978-0-02-866097-4
Joshua 4:19
Joshua 1:1–1:12
Joshua 1:1
Deuteronomy 34:6
Deuteronomy 34:6

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