Rav Shmuel Salant zt”l, Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, On His 100th Yahrtzeit, Today, 29...
Rav Shmuel Salant zt"l, who lived from January 2, 1816 to August 16, 1909, served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim and was...
Rav Eliezer Geldzahler zt”l, On His Ninth Yahrtzeit
The following article by Rebbetzin Feige Twerski was first published on Sunday, December 12, 2004, following the petirah...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 7 Nissan
Rav Yitzchak of Drovitch (1758). He was the father of R' Yechiel Michel, the Maggid of Zlotschov. In ...
Today Yahrtzeits & History – 10 Nissan
Miriam Hanevia (1395-1272 or 1270 BCE)
Rav Betzalel Hacohen, Rav of Vilna, author of Mareh Cohen and Shu"T Reishis Bikkurim.
Rav Shalom Mashash, Sephardic Rav of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Teves
Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1808-1888). His father, Rav Raphael Aryeh ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 7-8 Shevat
Rav Baruch ben Rav Shmuel of Pinsk (1834). In 1830, Rav Yisrael of Shklov, one of the closest of the disciples of the Vilna...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & 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...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 19 Nissan
Rav Yehoshua Falk Katz, author of Meiras Einayim, the Derisha and Perisha on the Tur, the Sema on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 27 Adar
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,...
