Today’s Yahrtzeits - 26 Shevat
Rav Dovid Halevi Segal, author of Turei Zahav (the Taz) (1586-1667), son-in-law of the Bach. Born in Cracow. Unofficial Rabbi of Posen 1619-~1640. Headed famous yeshiva at Ostro from 1643, escaped Cossacks 1648-49 to Lublin, then Moravia. Settled in Lemberg (Lvov). Lost 2 sons to violent deaths in Spring of 1664. Sent his son Yeshaya and son-in-law Aryeh Leib (later to be the Shaagas Aryeh) to investigate Shabsai Tzvi. He also wrote Divrei Dovid on Rashi al HaTorah.
Rav Mordechai Yosef Elazar Leiner (1929), Rebbe of Radzin, son of the Baal Hatecheiles and great-grandson of Mordechai Yosef of Izhbitz. He was the author of Tiferes Yosef. He was succeeded by his son, Rav Shmuel Shlomo, and then by his son-in-law, Rav Avraham Yissachar Englard.
Rav Shaul Broch of Kashau (1940).
Rav Yaakov Landau, Rav of Bnei Brak (1986)
Rav Ephraim Nachum Borodiansky of Yeshiva Kol Torah (1990).
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1. Comment from emes veyatziv
Time February 19, 2012 at 2:28 PM
“Sent his son Yeshaya and son-in-law Aryeh Leib (later to be the Shaagas Aryeh) to investigate Shabsai Tzvi”. This sentance is incorrect. The Taz was niftar in the year 1667 whereas the Shaagas Aryeh was only born in 1695.Although he had a stepson by the name Aryeh Leib who was sent to investigate Shabsai Tzvi.