Last year, b’etzem hayom hazeh, on this self-same day, As It Is Written: Project 304,805 opened. 

Another important event in my life happened on this day as well: sixty-one years ago, on October 8th, 1949, my mother, z”l, was born.

While this convergence may seem a mere interesting coincidence, there is precedent in our tradition for the notion that related events occur on the same date