Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 2 Nissan

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Rabbeinu Baruch, father of the Maharam miRottenberg (1275)

Rav Eliyahu Kalmankash, Rav of Lublin (1633)

Rav Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson, the Rebbe RaShaB, 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe (1860-1920). He is the author of hundreds of major tracts in the exposition of Chassidic thought.

Rav Nachman Shmuel Yaakov Meyudesar (1872-1948). Born in Warsaw, he became Rav and Rosh Yeshiva in Brok, Poland. While there, he published his sefer Amudei Yehonasan, named after his grandfather, Rav Yehonasan Eibishitz. After thirty years, he realized his dream to move to Eretz Yisrael and became the second Rav of Bnai Brak.

Rav Yaakov Yosef Twersky, Skverer Rebbe (1899-1968). In the summer of 1919, because of the pogroms in the Ukraine that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the family moved to Kiev. A few months later, on 15 Kislev, his father, Rav Dovid, the Skverer Rebbe, was niftar, and the following fall, the remaining family left for Kishinev, Bessarabia (Moldavia). In 1925, Reb Yaakov Yosef married and moved to Belz. A few years later, he returned to Romania and led the Skverer Chasidim in Kolorash as their Rebbe. In the winter of 1945, he moved to Bucharest, from where he moved to the United States (in 1948). After establishing his court in Boro Park, then Williamsburg, he founded New Square in 1957.

Today in History – 2 Nissan

· Jews of Mayence, Germany, were massacred, 1283.
· King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed decree expelling Jews from Spain (later delayed through the actions of Abarbanel), 1492.
· Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Yerushalayim, 1881.

{Yahrtzeits licensed to Matzav.com Newscenter by Manny Saltiel and Anshe.org}


2 COMMENTS

  1. worth mentioning that it’s the 100th yahrzeit of the Rashab of Lubavitch. His petirah was also at a time of fear, then from the communist regime.

    It would also be appropriate to at least include the Jewish years in addition to the years of the Christians.

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