Rabbi Yoseph Breuer: The Rav of Frankfurt, U.S.A., On His 29th Yahrtzeit, Today, 3...
By Dr. Ernst J. Bodenheimer with Rabbi Nosson Scherman
As a six-year old child, Rabbi Joseph Breuer saw his grandfather, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, for...
Rav Elazar Kahanow zt”l, On His Tenth Yahrtzeit
By Tsemach Glenn
Rav Elazar Kahanow was born in the year 1917 to his father, the gaon and tzaddik, Rav Uri Meir HaKohen ben...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Sivan
Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon, one of the Asara Harugei Malchus (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 580).
Rav Meir Eisenstadt, the Maharam Eish, author of Panim Meiros (1670-1744)....
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...
Today’s Yahrtzeit and History – 29 Adar
Rabbeinu Yitzchak ben Rabbeinu Asher, and grandson of the Riva, was murdered with numerous other Jews because of a blood libel (1196).
Rav Shlomo...
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 Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Tammuz
Birth and yahrtzeit of Yosef ben Yaakov Avinu (1561-1451 BCE). According to most opinions, however, the actual date was 1 Tammuz.
Rav Yitzchak Charif of...
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 & History – 23 Av
Rav Dovid Sutton Dabbah (1885-1949). Born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, he married in 1910, and was asked to...
The Chofetz Chaim zt”l, On His 80th Yahrtzeit, Today, 24 Elul
By Rabbi Nosson Scherman
A little more than one hundred years ago, an unknown author was arranging for the publication of an anonymous work ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Cheshvan
Rav Naftali Yitzchak Segal, author of Naftali Seva Ratzon (1555)
Rav Yitzchak Avraham Wallerstein of Minsk, brother of the Shaagas Aryeh (1775)
Rav Shimshon Halevi Heller...
Rav Eliezer Geldzahler zt”l, On His Ninth Yahrtzeit
The following article by Rebbetzin Feige Twerski was first published on Sunday, December 12, 2004, following the petirah...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 9 Adar
Rav Mordechai Meisel, the parnes of Prague, a great Jewish philanthropist who saved many Jewish lives in pogroms (1601).
Rav Shlomo Zalman of Volozhin, brother...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 28 Iyar
Shmuel Hanavi (930-878 BCE)
Rav Yosef Yehuda Reiner, rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Kol Torah. The yeshiva, located in Bayit Vegan, was founded in 1939 by...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 12 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Tzadka, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef (1909-1991). Born in Yerushalayim, Rav Yehuda was a great-great grandson of Rav Tzadka Chutzin, author of...
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 Yahrtzeit and History – 3 Cheshvan
Rav Yisrael of Ruzhin (1797-1850). Born to Reb Shalom, the Rebbe of Prohibisht (who was a son of Reb ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 5-6-7 Sivan
Yahrtzeits - 5 Sivan
Rav Ze'ev Wolf of Zhitomer, the Ohr Hameir (1797)
-Rav Chaim Yaakov Safran, Kamorna Admor
-Rav Eliyahu of Ziditchov (1875)
-Rav Uri Shraga Kellerman,...
Rav Shmuel Rozovsky zt”l, On His 31st Yahrtzeit, Today
Today is the 31st yahrtzeit of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky zt"l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ponovezh. Rav Shmuel was born in Grodna to Rav Michel...
Rav Abba Berman zt”l, On His Seventh Yahrtzeit, Today, 3 Iyar
Rav Abba Mordechai Berman zt"l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Iyun HaTalmud, had the merit of learning firsthand from the Torah...
