Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 25 Adar
Rav Gershon (ben Efrayim) Kitover, brother-in-law of the Baal Shem Tov (1696-1761). His father was a Rav and Av Beis Din in one of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Elul
Rav Moshe Segal of Lvov, known as Rosh Hagolah Umanhig Hamedinah (1719).
Rav Yitzchak Chiyus, Rav in Skolya (1726). Author of of the Mishnah commentary,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 19 Teves
Rav Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, author of Ketzos Hachoshen, Avnei Miluim, and Shev Shmaatsa (1813)
Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, the Kesav Sofer (1815-1872). Born and...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 21 Av
Rav Chaim Soloveitchik of Volozhin and Brisk (1853-1918). Son of the Beis Halevi, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, Rav Chaim was born in Volozhin, but...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 3 Shevat
Rav Yosef Katz, brother-in-law of the Rema and author of She'eris Yosef (1591). Note: the Admor of Desh, Rav Tzvi Meir Panet...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 15 Cheshvan
Yahrtzeits, Friday, 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...
Rav Mendel Kaplan zt”l, On His 25th Yahrtzeit, Today, 13 Nissan
By Yisroel Greenwald
It is amazing to witness the strong impact Rav Mendel Kaplan zt"l continues to have more than two decades after his passing....
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 14-16 Nissan
Yahrtzeits - 14 Nissan
-Rav Asher Yeshaya of Ropshitz (1845), the main rebbi of Rav Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, the Shinover Rav.
-Rav Avraham Yaffen, Rosh Yeshivas...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 14-15 Adar I
Rav Ze'ev Wolf of Zhitomer, student of the Maggid of Mezeitch, author of Or Hameir, one of the early foundation texts of Chassidus (1800).
Rav...
Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 27 Teves
By D. Sofer
I see a child enveloped in flames. The bystanders are afraid; they do nothing, or else they are only trying...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 11 Nissan
Rav Moshe ben Nachman, the Ramban, (1194-1270). Born in Gerona, he remained there most of his life. He was a student of the Ramah...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 4 Tammuz
Rav Yaakov ben Meir (Rabbeinu Tam). The most famous of Rav Meir ben Shmuel's sons, one of Rashi's ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 14 Adar, Purim
Rav Ze'ev Wolf of Zhitomer, student of the Maggid of Mezeitch, author of Or Hameir, one of the early foundation texts of Chassidus (1800).
Rav...
Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 21 Adar
Rav Yisroel Isser, the son of Elchonon, was the rav and moreh tzedek in the Lithuanian town of Roush, located in the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 15 Kislev
Reb Yehuda HaNasi, son of Rav Shimon ben Gamliel, and redactor of the Mishna (120-192 CE)
Rav Avraham Ibn Ezra (the second), author of Batei...
Rav Meir Shapiro zt”l, Upon His Yahrtzeit, Today, 7 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro, Rav of Lublin, revolutionized Klal Yisroel's limud haTorah. For the budding talmid chacham, he created the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 23 Av
Rav Dovid Sutton Dabbah (1885-1949). Born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, he married in 1910, and was asked to serve as the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 17 Teves
Rav Yaakov Krantz, Dubna Maggid (1741-1804). Born in a province of Vilna, Jacob ben Wolf Kranz showed exceptional homiletical and...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 7 Av
Rav Moshe ben Amram Greenwald of Chust, the Arugas Habosem (1915). A disciple of Rebbe Yusha Rokeach of ...
Today’s Yahrzteits & History – 7-8 Iyar
Yahrtzeits - 7 Iyar
-Rav Shlomo Ephraim of Luntchitz, author of Kli Yakar and Ololos Ephraim. Rav Shlomo Ephraim was born in Lunchitz in Poland....
