Today’s Yahrtzeits – 25 Nissan
-Rav Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, author of Divrei Chaim (1793-1876 ), founder of the Sanzer Chasidim. Born in Tarnograd, Poland. At the age of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 4 Sivan
-Rav Yeshaya Naftali Hertz of Dinov, author of Hanosen Imrei Shefer (1888). Born approximately 1838 to Rav Dovid Dinov (the Tzemach Dovid), who was...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 4 Nissan
Rav Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenberg, author of HaKesav Vehakabala (1785-1865). A talmid of Rav Akiva Eiger, Rav Yaakov Tzvi was appointed Rav of Kenigsberg, Germany, spending...
The Belzer Rebbe, Rav Aharon Rokeach zt”l, Upon His Yahrtzeit, Today, 21 Av
Rav Aharon Rokeach zt"l was the fourth rebbe of the Belzer dynasty. He led the chassidus from 1926 until his...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 17-18 Shevat
Yahrtzeits - 17 Shevat
Rav Chaim Palagi (Palagi), Rav of Izmir (1788-1858). Rav Chaim derived much of his Torah knowledge from his...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 26 Adar
Sarah Schneirer, mother of the Bais Yaakov movement (1935)
-Rav Eliezer Lippa, the son of Rav Elimelech of Lizhensk (1813).
-Rav Avraham Chaim Brim of Yerushalayim...
Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 19 Tammuz
Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel zt"l, known as Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel, lived from 1879 to 1965 and served the rosh yeshiva of the Mir...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 29 Tishrei
Shimon Hatzadik of the Anshei Knesset Hagedola, 313 BCE
Rav Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz (1830-1885), author of Tzemach Tzedek. Named for His grandfather, Rav Menachem...
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)....
The Baal Hatanya, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 24 Teves
Today is the yahrtzeit of Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi, known as the Baal HaTanya after his famous work, was born on...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Teves
Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1808-1888). His father, Rav Raphael Aryeh (1777-1857), who changed the family name to Hirsch, was the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & 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 & History – 18 Shevat
Rav Yaakov Margulies, Av Beis Din Nuremberg (1492) Author of Seder Haget V'hachalitza, which is quoted extensively by the Rema. His son,...
Rav Rephoel Boruch Sorotzkin zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 13 Shevat
By Rav Chaim Dov Keller
When the Telsher Rosh Yeshivah, Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin passed away on Friday night, 13 Shevat 5739/1979 the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 7-8 Shevat
Rav Baruch ben Rav Shmuel of Pinsk (1834). In 1830, Rav Yisrael of Shklov, one of the closest of the disciples of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 25 Teves
Rav Yechiel Michel Tukatchinsky, mashgiach of Slabodka in Bnai Brak, and founder of Yeshivas Mekor Chaim in Yerushalayim. In 1925, he published a sefer...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & 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...
The Chazon Ish zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Tomorrow, 15 Cheshvan
By Rav Aaron Brafman
There is ever so much that one can learn from a close association with great men. Our Chazal tell us that...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 1 Nissan
Nadav and Avihu, bnei Aaron Hakohen (1309 BCE)
Rav Moshe Yosef Hoffman, the dayan from Pupa
Rav Elya Svei, Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 20 Iyar
Rav Mordechai ("Mottel") of Chernobyl (1770-1838). Successor to his father, Rav Nachum, the Meor Einayim, he became the son-in-law...
