Cheshvan 17

Cheshvan 17

Biblical Year BCE or CE

Description of Event

8 3987

HaSatan tempts Eve. Eve succumbs to his temtations. Man is expelled from the Garden
Book of Jubilees 3:

1656 2333

Noah, his wife, three sons, are in the ark mourning for Methuselah.    Day 7
B’reshit 7:4-9

1656 2333

Rain descends upon the earth. The Deluge begins.¹    Day 1
B’reshit 7:11-12    Seder Olam 4

1657 2104

The earth continues to dry from the waters of the Flood.    Day 47
B’reshit 8:13-14    Seder Olam 4

King Saul’s seven sons were removed from the gallows.
Midrash Rabbah, Naso 8

¹The Deluge was all of twelve months since it is said (B’reshit 7:11): “In the year 600 of Noah’s life, on the 17th of second month, on that exact day, there broke open all sources of the great deep and the sluices of heaven were opened. Its generation will not partake of the Future World and will be judged as it is said (Gen. 6:3): “My spirit shall not judge this mankind forever.” Rebbi Jehoshua says, the 17th of second month that is the 17th of Iyar, second to Nisan in which the world was created and in which the Pleiades disappear but since they perverted their ways the Holy One, praise to Him, perverted nature for them.

Rebbi Eliezer the 17th of the second month that is the 17th of Marheshwan (Cheshvan), second to Tishre in which the world was created and in which the Pleiades appear, and it was the start of the winter rains.

The sages accept the words of R. Eliezer for the Deluge but the words of R. Jehoshua for the computation of seasons.