stage a demonstration at night, which they did, and where the people shouted their complaint, saying: "Alas! By the heavens, are we not your brothers? Are we not the sons of one father? Are we not the sons of one mother? Why, then, are we discriminated against above every other nation and tongue, so that you decree against us harsh decrees?" Upon hearing this, the ruling power cancelled the decrees made against their religion, permitting them to study their Torah, circumcise their sons and to keep the holy Sabbath. The Sages declared this day as a kind of festival day, in which it was prohibited to fast and mourn.] See also Hananiah ben Hezekiah ben Garon, author Lulianos and Paphos, concerning "the day of Trajan" mentioned in Megillat Taanit References Its bibliography: Grätz, Gesch. iii., notes 1, 26; J. Derenbourg, Hist. pp. 439–446; J. Schmilg, Ueber Entstehung und Historischen Werth des Siegeskalenders Megillat Ta'anit, Leipsic, 1874; J. Wellhausen, Die Pharisäer und die Sadducäer, pp. 56–63, Greifswald, 1874; Joel Müller, Der Text der Fastenrolle, in Monatsschrift, 1875, pp. 43–48, 139-144; M. Brann, Entstehung und Werth der Megillat Ta'anit, pp. 375–384, 410-418, 445-460, ib. 1876; P. Cassel, Messianische Stellen des Alten Testaments, Appendix, Berlin, 1885; Weiss, Dor, ii. 254-257; B. Rattner, in Rabbinowitz, Ha-Meassef, 1902, pp. 91–105; M. Schwab, La Megillath Taanith, in Actes du Onzième Congrès International des Orientalistes, Section 4, pp. 199–259, Paris, 1898. External links Aramaic/Hebrew Text English Translation of the Aramaic by Solomon Zeitlin English Translation of the Hebrew and Aramaic by the Jewish community on Sefaria 1st-century texts Jewish holy days Jewish texts in Aramaic Rabbinic literature