<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:19 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br></div><div>But what happened on
15 Kislev (which happens to be my father-in-law's yahrtzeit, but I never heard
of something else special about that date)?</div></font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" lang="0" size="2"><b></b></font></div></blockquote><div><br>According to my calendar (`Itim Lebina) it's R. Yehuda HaNasi's yahrzeit. The Gemara says (Ketubot 104a) that a fast was imposed on the day that Rabbi died, but I've no idea if this connects to the HK minhag, which I also never heard of before this thread. <br>
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