Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 26 Nissan
-Yehoshua bin Nun, Buried in Timnas Serach in Har Ephraim (1354-1244 BCE)
-Rav Ephraim Navon, the Machaneh Ephraim (1677-1735). Born in Andrinople to Rav Aharon,...
The Purim Seudah
1)It is a Mitzvah on all Jewish men, women and children to partake of a festive Seudah, meal, on Purim.
The Purim Seudah needs to...
Light Amidst the Darkness
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The past week was a most difficult one for many of our readers and their neighbors. A storm thrust millions...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 27 Adar I
Tzedkiah, last king of Yehuda, died in captivity, in Bavel (561 BCE).
Rav Yosef Shaul HaLevi Nathanson (1810-1875 or 1878). Born in Brezhan, Galicia,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 10-11 Shevat
Rabbeinu Nissim ben Reuven, the Ran (1308-1376), author of a commentary to the Talmud and a halachic commentary to the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and 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). ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 25 Tammuz
Rav Yosef Yitzchak Rottenberg, head of Belgian community
Rav Aharon Berachia ben Moshe of Modina (1639). A student of the Rema. He was the author...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 4 Nissan
Rav Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenberg, author of HaKesav Vehakabala (1785-1865). A talmid of Rav Akiva Eiger, Rav Yaakov Tzvi was appointed Rav of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 27 Tammuz
Birth and yahrtzeit of Yosef ben Yaakov Avinu (1561-1451 BCE). According to most opinions, however, the actual date was 1 Tammuz.
Rav Yitzchak Charif...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 5-6 Iyar
Rav Moshe Zorach Eidelitz of Prague, author of Ohr La'yeshorim, Berurei Hamiddos, and Meleches Machsheves, and Ohr LaYeshraim (1780). Orphaned as a youth and...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 11 Iyar
-Rav Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz, author of Ayalah Sheluchah and Zera Kodesh, (1760-1827). When R' Naftali decided to join the chassidic movement...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 4 Tishrei
Rav Yoel Baal Shem (1713)
Rav Avraham Danzig, author of Chayei Adam and Chachmas Adam (1748-1820). Born in Danzig (Gdansk), he learned at...
Yesterday: 76th Yahrtzeit of the Minchas Elazar zt”l
The 75th yartzeit of the revered Munkatcher Rebbe zt"l, author of Minchas Eluzar, was commemorated yesterday, the 2nd day of Sivan. Thousands...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 16-17 Kislev
Rav Yaakov of Lublin (1644), father of Rav Herschel of Cracow
Rav Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub (the Imrei Shaul), the second Modzitzer Rebbe. Born in...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 8 Tammuz
Rav Meir Horowitz of Dzikov (Tarnobrzeg), author of Imrei Noam, grandson of Rav Naftali, the Ropshitzer Rov. One of his...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 23 Kislev
Rav Dovid of Novhardok (1837), author of Galya Maseches
Rav Dovid Teveli Shiff, author of Lashon Zahav, and the son of Shlomo Zalman HaKohen Shiff
Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 15 Tammuz
Rav Chaim ben Atar, the Ohr HaChaim Hakadosh, (1696-1743). Born into a well-respected family in Sali, Morocco, Rav Chaim spent his early years learning...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 11 Tammuz
Rav Yitzchak Chiyus (1616). Rav in Prossnitz (Prostejov) and Prague. Author of Pnei Yitzchak (which sets Yoreh Deah to rhyme), Siach Yitzchak (which sets...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 12-13 Iyar
Rav Zorach Eideles of Prague (1755)
Rav Masoud Abuchatzeira, father of the Baba Sali (1835-1908). Born in Taflilat, Morocco, hesucceeded his father, the Abir Yaakov,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 25 Av
Rav Moshe Hager of Antiniya (1994)
Rav Yeshayahu Menachem ben Yitzchak of Cracow, the originator of the Heter Iska (1599)
Today in History - 25 Av
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