‘The Last Lion’: The Satmar Rov, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum zt”l, On His 30th Yahrtzeit
Remembrances of a talmid, as told to Rabbi Nisson Wolpin
The Satmar Rav, a direct descendant of both the famed Yismach Moshe and the Chavas...
Rav Gedalia Schorr zt”l, On His 34th Yahrtzeit, Tomorrow, 7 Tammuz
By Rabbi Nosson Scherman
The last day of Rabbi Gedalia Schorr's life was typical of so many others, especially in his later years. It ...
The Chasam Sofer zt”l, Upon His Yahrtzeit, Today, 25 Tishrei
Rav Moshe Sofer - the Chasam Sofer - was born in 1766 to Rav Shmuel and ...
Video: Fascinating Divrei Zikaron On the Satmar Rov zt”l
Last Tuesday was the 33rd yahrtzeit of the Satmar Rov, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum zt"l. The following is a video of fascinating - and...
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 – 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 – 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...
Rav Mordechai Marcus zt”l
It is with great sadness that Matzav.com reports the petirah of Rav Mordechai Marcus zt”l. He was 78 years old.
Rav Marcus, rov of the...
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 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 – 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 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 – 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, 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 – 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 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 – 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...
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...
Sarah Schenirer a”h, the Mother of the Bais Yaakov Movement, On Her Yahrtzeit, Today,...
Sarah Schenirer a"h was not blessed with children of her own. And yet she was a mother. In fact, one could rightly say that...
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...
