Former VP Mike Pence: Israel’s Fight is Our Fight
“We stand with Israel because her cause is our cause,” former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said, addressing the Iranian American Jewish Federation of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 29 Cheshvan
Today's Yahrtzeits - 29 Cheshvan
Rav Yitzchak Eizik Chover, author of Responsa Binyan Olam and Si'ach Yitzchak. One of his talmidim, HaRav Yitzchak Kahane, wrote...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 28 Cheshvan
Rabbeinu Yonah (ben Avraham) of Gerondi, France(1200 -1263). The Ramban's mother and Rabbeinu Yonah's father were siblings. Many years later, the Ramban's son, Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Cheshvan
Rav Shlomo Segal, Av Beis Din Polna'ah and Lvov, he authored MiBeis Levi (1638)
Rav Raphael Hoken of Hamburg (1723-1803). Born in Liphland to Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 23 Cheshvan
Rav Aharon Katzenellenbogen of Brisk, author of Minchas Aharon (1854).
Rav Moshe Midner of Slonim-Baranowitz, a grandson of the Yesod Ha'avodah and a talmid of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 22 Cheshvan
Rav Yissachar Dov Rokeach, the third Belzer rebbe (1854-1926)
Rav Moshe Lima, author of Chelkas Mechokek. Early
in the 17th century, he was hired by the...
Today’s Yahrzteits – 21 Cheshvan
Rav Dovid ben Zimra, the Radbaz (1480-1573). Arriving in Tzefas as a child after the Spanish expulsion, he emigrated to Egypt in 1514. Shortly...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Cheshvan
Rav Naftali Yitzchak Segal, author of Naftali Seva Ratzon (1555)
Rav Yitzchak Avraham Wallerstein of Minsk, brother of the Shaagas Aryeh (1775)
Rav Shimshon Halevi Heller...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 16 Cheshvan
Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach (1894-2001). Born in Vaboilnick, Lithuania, and left for Ponevezh (38km away) at age 7. Learned at Slabodka under Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 15 Cheshvan
Mattisyahu ben Yochanan, Kohen Godol, father of the Chasmonaim (138 BCE, or 165)
Rav Eliezer ben Yitzchak ibn Archa (1651). Born in Tzefas, he moved...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 14 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Lowy, grandfather of the Maharal (1539)
Rav Leib Baal HaYisurim in Tzefas (1836)
Rav Aharon Weiss of Benedkwits (1851-1932). At the age of 20,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 12 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Tzadka, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef (1909-1991). Born in Yerushalayim, Rav Yehuda was a great-great grandson of Rav Tzadka Chutzin, author of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Elul
Rav Eliyahu Tzarfati, author of Eliyahu Zuta (1805)
Rav Chaim Pinto of Mogador (1758-1845). The famous Pinto family was dispersed worldwide - primarily to Morocco, the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History, 25 Elul
R. Elazar son of R. Shimon bar Yochai (102 CE)
Rav Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov (1721-1786). The son of son of Rabbi Yitzchak of Drohovitch,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 24 Elul
Chabakuk Hanavi
Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin (1838-1933). As a 9-year-old boy, he entered the yeshiva in Vilna. After marrying at 17 years of age,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Elul
Rav Yaakov of Orleans, one of the Baalei Tosefos and a student of Rabbeinu Tam, was killed with many other Jews in London during...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History, 18 Elul
Rav Yehuda Loew, the Maharal (1525-1609). Born in Posen, Poland, on the night of the Pesach Seder, to a distinguished family of rabbis that...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 17 Elul
Rav Chaim Benveniste (1603 -1673). A disciple of Rav Yosef Trani. Born in Constantinople, he was appointed Rav of Tita (near Izmir) in 1644....
Today’s Yahrtzeits and Elul – 15 Elul
Rav Chanoch Henach Eiges of Vilna, author of Marcheshes. Learned under Rav Alexander Moshe Lapidus at his Kollel in Rassein.
Rav Yaakov Koppel Chassid, the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 10 Elul
Rav Yitzchak Friedman, the first Rebbe of Bohush (1834-1896). The eldest grandchild of the Ruzhiner, Reb Yitzchak was only a year younger than the...
