Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 28 Iyar

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Rav Shimshon Aaron Polansky, the Teplik Rav (1876-1948). Rav of Midovia in Ukraine’s Kiev district at age 20. Five years later, he became Rav of Teplik in Ukraine’s Podolia’s region. Rav Polansky immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1922, settling in the Beis Yisrael area of Yerushalayim.

Rav Yisrael Zev Gustman (1908-1991), a talmid of Rav Shimon Shkop in Grodno. Rav Gustman became rosh yeshiva of Ramailles when he was still a young man in Vilna. He served on the beis din of Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky. In fact, he was the youngest dayan in the history of Vilna (at age 19). When the Nazis invaded Vilna, they stormed the yeshiva beat Rav Gustman him until he collapsed. By a miracle he was spared, and he fled for his life. In 1961, Rav Gustman moved to Eretz Yisrael and transferred his yeshiva, Netzach Yisrael Ramailles, to the Rechavia section of Yerushalayim. Today its rosh yeshiva is his son- in-law, Rav Michel Berniker. One of his first students in Yerushalayim was Rav Moshe Francis, Rosh Kollel of the Chicago Community Kollel. Another talmid was Rav Moshe Lipke, Rosh Kollel of Y’kar Mordechai in Yerushalayim. Rav Gustman authored Kuntresei Shi’urim.

Rebbetzin Pesha Leibowitz, wife of Rav Henoch Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Chafetz Chaim in Queens (1928-2004). She was born in Radin, the daughter of Rav Avraham Trop, and the grand-daughter of Rav Naftali Trop, the Radiner Rosh Yeshiva. The Rebbetzen’s father-in-law, Rav Dovid Leibowitz, the founder of Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva, was a talmid muvhak or the Alter of Slabodka, a nephew of the Chofetz Chaim, and a close talmid of Rav Naftali Trop. Rav Shmuel Berenbaum once remarked that “‘the Rebbitzen is a ‘gaon’ in chesed.”

Today in History – 28 Sivan

· 24 wagonloads of Gemaras and 200 other kisvei yad were burned in Paris, 1242.
· Jews of Genoa were expelled, 1567.
· The yeshivos of Slabodka and Telz closed their doors the day after Germany invaded Lithuania, 1941.
· Walther Rathenau, Jewish foreign minister of Germany, is assassinated by members of Organization Consul, a clandestine, right-wing political organization led by Captain Hermann Ehrhardt.

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


6 COMMENTS

  1. The yahrtzets of BOTH the Teplik Rov and Rav Gustman are on the 28th of SIVAN.

    This same misinformation was posted a year ago, and two years ago, and three.. but even a chazaka cannot change the date.

  2. A lot of things are not good/right/correct in the world right now.

    We must pray Hashem fix these things instantaneously.

    The cop killed in Queens on the Highway near Clearview Expressway and Utopia Parkway name sounds like “Tacos” walked out of the convenience store with a drink coffee or ~ without paying according to the cashier I spoke to.

  3. yahrtzeit-candlesShmuel 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 Rav Yechiel Michel Schlesinger. After his petira, the yeshiva was run by Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach until his petira in 1995.

    -Rav Yitzchak of Corbeil, the Baal HaChotem (1280). A student and son-in-law of Rav Yechiel of Paris, he authored a halachic compendium called Amudei HaGolah. Because it briefer than the Semag of Rav Moshe of Coucy, his work is referred to as the Sefer Mitzvos Kattan, or Semak. It lists all post-Temple mitzvos with pertinent halachic details. He also authored some of the writings of the Tosefos.

    -Rav Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir Kalish, the Amshinover Rebbe (1901-1976). Born in Peshischa, he learned with his grandfather, Rav Menachem, who was the grandson of the first Amshinover Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Dovid. When Rav Mencahem passed away in 1918, one of his sons, Rav Yosef, became the Rebbe of Amshinov, and the other son, Rav Shimon Shalom – Rav Meir’s father – became Rebbe in Otvotzk. Rav Shimon was a major driving force behind the exodus of thousands of bachurim in Mir, Kletzk, Radin, Novardak, and other yeshivos to Japan and Shanghai at the outbreak of World War II. By the time Shanghai came under Japanese control, it held 26,000 Jews. After the war, Rav Shimon immigrated to America. Upon his petira in 1954, Rav Meir accompanied the aron to Teveria in Eretz Yisrael. He later moved to Tel Aviv, and then to the Bayit Vegan section of Yerushalayim. Rav Meir was noted for his genius in Torah, as well as his warmth and sensitivity to all Jews. His grandson, Rav Yaakov Aryeh Milikowski, succeeded him as the Amshinover Rebbe.

    -Rav Shlomo Avraham Eliyahu Green of Bnei Brak, the tailor mekubal

    Today in History – 28 Iyar

    · Jews of Bacharach, Germany, were massacred by the Crusaders, 1096.
    · The Rambam finds the Sefer Torah of Ezra Hasofer and ordains this day as a day of rejoicing and feasting (mentioned in Shem Hagedolim of the Chida)
    · The Turkish government authorized the return of the Jews who had been expelled from Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1917.
    · The White Paper of the McDonald government of Britain, which reversed the policy of the Balfour Declaration, was published, 1939. It nullified, in effect, the aims and legal commitment of the Balfour Declaration.
    · Israelcaptured the Old City of Yerushalayim in, 1967, after it was separated from west Yerushalayim in 1948.
    · Dulles, the anti-Semitic head of the State Department who imported large numbers of Nazis to work in the intelligence ranks in the U.S., tells NATO in Paris that the U.S. would not sell arms to Israel directly in order to avoid U.S.-USSR confrontation in the Middle East, 1956.
    · Francedelivers arms to Israel under secret agreement with tacit U.S. approval, 1956.
    · Bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor by the Israeli Air Force, 1981.

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