Sivan

Holidays in Sivan

• 6–7 Sivan – Shavuot

  Sivan in Jewish history

• 1 Sivan – Worms Jews massacred as part of the Rhineland massacres by the First Crusade during morning prayers after taking refuge in a local castle.
• 6 Sivan – The Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai and thus observed as the holiday of Shavuot.
• 4 Sivan – Birth of David.
• 6 Sivan - Death of David.
• 6 Sivan – Death of Baal Shem Tov
• 7 Sivan – 1834 looting of Safed breaks out
• 13 Sivan – Cossack riots begin with the Khmelnytsky Uprising pogrom
• 20 Sivan – The first blood libel in France – tens of Jewish men and women were burned alive in the French town of Blois on the accusation that Jews used the blood of Christian children in the preparation of matzah for Passover.
• 23 Sivan – Mordecai and Esther sent letters so that the Jews shall prepare themselves for the annihilation plan orchestrated by Haman to be committed against them on the 13th of the following Adar.
• 27 Sivan – "Purim of Florence" – a celebretion set to celebrate this day when Florentine Jews were saved from a mob.