Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Talmudist, Halachist, physician, philosopher and communal leader, known in the Jewish world by the acronym "Rambam" and to the world at large as "Maimonides", passed away in Egypt on the 20th of Tevet in 1204 (4965).
Links: A brief biography of Maimonides
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The first volume of the Babylonian Talmud, the tractate Berachot, was printed in Soncino, Italy, on the 20th of Tevet of the year 5244 from creation (1483)
Link: What Is the Talmud?
G‑d desires to have a presence in this world, and in each mitzvah we do, however it is done, He is there.
G‑d desires that His light shine in this world, and in every word of divine wisdom and every heartfelt prayer, His light shines.
G‑d desires yet more—that He be found here in all His essence, that which can neither be spoken nor kept silent, neither of heaven nor of earth, neither of being nor of not-being—that which transcends all of these and from which all extends.
And that is how He is found in a simple, physical deed that shines brightly with divine light.