Monday · Yom Sheni
יום שני
19 Nisan 5739
Monday, April 16, 1979
Holidays & Observances
Pesach V (CH’’M)
4th day of the Omer
Notable on 19 Nisan
Pharaoh Pursued the Israelites
Pharaoh set out in pursuit of the Israelites with his army, chariots, and horsemen.
Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin)
Leader of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist movement. Bar-Ilan University is named in his memory.
Rav Aharon HaGadol of Karlin
Student of the Maggid of Mezritch and founder of Chassidut in Belarus and the Karlin-Stolin dynasty.
Rav Menachem Ziemba
Chief Rabbi of Warsaw, killed during the Ghetto Uprising (1943), who ruled that armed resistance was a halachic obligation.
Rav Yehoshua Falk Katz
Author of the Sma on Choshen Mishpat and the Derishah and Perishah on the Tur, student of the Rema and Maharshal.
About 19 Nisan 5739
Monday, April 16, 1979 corresponds to 19 Nisan 5739 on the Hebrew (Jewish) calendar. The Hebrew date begins at sunset on the preceding evening.
Pesach V (CH’’M), 4th day of the Omer fall on this date. Jewish holidays follow the Hebrew calendar and may shift on the Gregorian calendar from year to year.