Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 8 Elul
Birthday (1566 BCE) and yahrtzeit (1441 BCE) of Dan ben Yaakov Avinu (Midrash Tadshe)
Rav Chisdai ben Shmuel HaKohen Perachia (1678). He was the author...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 7 Elul
Rav Reuven Margulios (1889-1971). His published works range from biographies and history books to discussions of the behavior...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 5 Elul
Rav Dovid Zvi Shlomo Biederman, known as Reb Dovid'l (1844-1918), leader of Chassidic community of Yerushalayim. Born in Lelov, his parents were Rav Eliezer...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 12 Elul
Rav Simchah Bunim of Pshischa, author of Kol Simchah, (1767-1827). Rav Simcha Bunim studied in the yeshivos of Mattersdorf and Nikolsburg under the guidance...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 4 Elul
Rav Aryeh Leib Teumim, the author of "Gur Aryeh" (1831)
Rav Yeshaya of Przedborz (1756-1831). Born in Lask, near Lodz, he was descended from a...
Today in History – 3 Elul
Rav Moshe Charif of Pressburg (1758)
Rav Yissachar Ber of Nadvorna (1848)
Rav Meshulam Zusya of Zhinkov, grandson of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta (1864)
Rav Avraham...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 2 Elul
Rav Yitzchak Bar Sheshes, the Rivash (1326-1407). Born in Barcelona. The son of Sheshes Perfet, Rav Yitzchak is considered a student of Rav Shlomo...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 1 Elul
Rav Dovid Hanaggid ben Avrohom ben Rambam (1224 or 1233-1300). Rav David lived in Eretz Yisrael for a number of years then moved back...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 28 Av
Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv, (1817-1893). He was born in Mir, the son-in-law of Rav Isaac, son of Rav Chaim of Volozhin...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Av
Rav Yehoshua Charif of Cracow (1648), author of Maginei Shlomo, an attempt to resolve the questions of the Baalei Tosefos against Rashi. He was...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Av
Rav Yehuda Fatiyah (1859-1942), the foremost student of the Ben Ish Chai, who said that he was the reincarnation of the "Noda B'Yehuda." He...
Today’s Yahrtzeit and History – 24 Av
Rav Aharon of Terbeli, author of Machneh Aharon (1741).
Rav Ephraim Zalman Margulies, Rav of Brod, author of Mateh Ephraim, Beis Ephraim, Olelos Ephraim, Shaarei Ephraim...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 23 Av
Rav Dovid Sutton Dabbah (1885-1949). Born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, he married in 1910, and was asked to...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 21 Av
Rav Chaim Soloveitchik of Volozhin and Brisk (1853-1918). Son of the Beis Halevi, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Rav Chaim was born in Volozhin, but...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 20 Av
Rav Levi Yitzchak (ben Baruch Schneur) Schneerson (1878-1944). Born to the oldest of the seven sons of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Menachem Mendel...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Av
Rav Yaakov Kuli (Culi), author of Me’am Loez (1689 or 1690-1732). He was a grandson and talmid of Rav Moshe ibn Habib. He moved from...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 17 Av
Rav Shimshon Wertheimer (1658-1724). Born in Worms, Germany, he learned in the yeshivas of Worms and Frankfurt. After marrying the daughter of the Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 10 Av
Yissachor ben Yaakov Avinu (1564 BCE)
Rav Don Yitzchak Abarbanel (1437-1508). Abrabanel was born in Lisbon, Portugal, to an illustrious Sephardic family...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 7 Av
Rav Moshe ben Amram Greenwald of Chust, the Arugas Habosem (1915). A disciple of Rebbe Yusha Rokeach of Belz. His son, Rav Rav Yaakov...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 6 Av
Rav Yehoshua Greenwald, Av Beis Din of Chust. After suffering the horrors of World War II, he followed the Rambam's advice and wrote that...
