Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 6 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Hachosid, founder of the Churva shul in Yerushalayim (1700)
Rav Shlomo Dovid Yehoshua Weinberg, the Admor Hatzair of Slonim (1943)
Rav Yechiel Menachem of...
Rav Mordechai Gifter zt”l, On His Tenth Yahrtzeit, Today
By his grandson, Rav Chaim Charlap
Ten years have gone by since the passing of Rosh Mishpachtainu, a leader of Klal Yisroel, the Telzer Rosh...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 11 Nissan
Rav Moshe ben Nachman, the Ramban, (1194-1270). Born in Gerona, he remained there most of his life. He was a student of the Ramah...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 20-22 Nissan
Yahrtzeits - 20 Nissan
-Rav Hai bar Sherira Gaon, rosh yeshivas Pompedisa, last of the Gaonim of Pumpedisa (1038)
-Rav Yitzchak Chori, dayan in Djerba
-Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 14 Tammuz
Rav Yosef Trani, the Maharit (1568-1639). Born in Safed, he married to a descendant of Rav Yosef Caro, but fled Safed due to plague...
Rav Simcha Avrohom HaKohen Sheps zt”l, On His 15th Yahrtzeit, Today
Rav Simcha Avrohom Sheps was born on April 18, 1908 in the Polish town of Vesokov-Mizivyetsk (near Lomza). Rav Simcha lost...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 18 Tishrei
Rav Nachman of Breslav, born to Feige, grand-daughter of the Ba'al Shem Tov, and Simcha, son of Nachman of Horodenka, the Ba'al Shem Tov's...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 17 Teves
Rav Yaakov Krantz, Dubna Maggid (1741-1804). Born in a province of Vilna, Jacob ben Wolf Kranz showed exceptional homiletical and...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 11 Adar
Rav Gershon (ben Yitzchak) Ashkenazi (1625-1693). Born in Holtz, Germany, he left home to learn in the yeshiva of Rav Yoel Sirkes, the Bach,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 10 Teves
Zecharia ben Berachya ben Ido Hanavi (320 or 313 BCE)
Malachi Hanavi (320 or 313 BCE). His death ended the era of prophecy.
Rav Yehuda Eilenberg,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 25 Tammuz
Rav Yosef Yitzchak Rottenberg, head of Belgian community
Rav Aharon Berachia ben Moshe of Modina (1639). A student of the Rema. He was the author...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 24-25 Teves
Rav Naftali Katz, author of Semichas Chachomim (1660-1719), descendent of the Maharal. Born in Ostracha, Ukraine and died in Istanbul. His father,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 29 Av
Rav Shmuel Salant, Rav of Yerushalayim (1816-1909). Born in Bialystok, Russia, his father passed away soon afterwards, and he was sent off to study...
Today’s Yahrzteits – 18 Sivan
Rav Avraham Hakohen Rappaort Shrentzel, Rosh Yeshivas Chevron (1584-1651). As a youth, he learned under Rav Meshulam Feivush, the Rav of Cracow. He married...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 30 Tishrei-1 Cheshvan
Yahrtzeits - 30 Tishrei
Rav Tzvi Hirsh Chayos, the Maharatz Chayos (Chiyus), Rav of Zolkov (1805-1855). Born in Brody to Rav Meir Chiyus....
Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt”l, On His Second Yahrtzeit, Today, 11 Cheshvan
Two years ago, Klal Yisroel was plunged into sadness with the sudden passing of Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel zt"l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 20 Shevat
Birth and petirah of Asher ben Yaakov Avinu (1565 BCE)
Rav Avraham Abba Freedman (1920-2002). He was sent from Brooklyn to Detroit in 1944 by...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Iyar
Rav Saadyah ben Yosef Gaon (882-942). Born in Fayum (the former name of Cairo), Egypt, he led an all-out war against the Karaites when...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 12 Teves
Rav Moshe Margulies, author of Pnei Moshe on the Yerushalmi (1781)
Rav Moshe of Pshevorsk, author of Ohr Pnei Moshe . (1805)
Rav Mordechai Chaim...
