Yom Kippur and the First Light of America's First Lighthouse

Misc. | October 2, 2025

[Ezekiel]

The first Boston Light stood as a beacon in Boston Harbor for 60 years until the British blew it up in 1776. Built in 1716, it was the first lighthouse in the United States.

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The Boston News-Letter of Sept. 17, 1716, reported the “Light House has been built; And on Fryday last the 14th Currant the Light was kindled.”

Boston Light, The Cursed Lighthouse of Boston Harbor

Boston Light is a lighthouse located on Little Brewster Island in outer Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.[3][4] The first lighthouse to be built on the site dates back to 1716, and was the first lighthouse to be built in what is now the United States. The current lighthouse dates from 1783. It is the second oldest working lighthouse in the United States (after Sandy Hook Lighthouse in New Jersey) and is the only lighthouse to still be actively staffed by the United States Coast Guard despite its automation in 1998.[5] The structure was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964.[6]

Boston Light

Friday night, September 14, 1716 (Julian) = September 25 Gregorian:

10 Tishri 5477 (Yom Kippur)

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Yom Kippur was Saturday, September 26, 1716 Gregorian, but began at sundown on the Friday the 25th (14th Julian)

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[Ezekiel]

Of calendar interest.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ezekiel.

[Ezekiel]

I had hoped this would garner some interest out there.

It may be an obscure data point, but it’s high on the symbolic reference scale.

Besides, America’s Independence (”We’re bustin’ outta here!”) Day in 1776 was on the 17th of Tammuz, the fast day for when the Romans breached the walls of JerUSAlem.

“According to the Mishnah,[2] five calamities befell the Jewish people on this day:”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_of_Tammuz#History

In concert with all of that, is the word from John Adams, that

“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.”

https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760703jasecond

Of note because in 2026, just ahead of America’s 250th birthday, July 2nd is the 17th of Tammuz, thus linking the 2nd and the 4th.

Perhaps it will turn out in the end, that John Adams was not mistaken in his enthusiasm for July 2nd, only that he’d got the year wrong.

[delchiante]

You sparked a memory with regards to some of my younger relatives.

There’s exactly 104 days in between birthdays for them and that’s not significant, but their dad used to watch that Disney cartoon Phineas and Ferb with them.

And they had a theme song and started with 104 days of summer vacation, which one knows is way too many days of summer vacation these days.
:)

But, that would leave 250 days left in a 354 lunar year where ‘school’ would be open for those cartoon characters..

America 250- maybe an opportunity to learn us something.