Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 1 Iyar
Reb Abba Shaul, one of the Talmudic sages
Rav Yaakov Beirav, born neat Toledo, in Spain. After serving as a rabbinical leader in Fez, Morocco,...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 8 Elul
Birthday (1566 BCE) and yahrtzeit (1441 BCE) of Dan ben Yaakov Avinu (Midrash Tadshe)
Rav Chisdai ben Shmuel HaKohen Perachia (1678). He was the author...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19-20 Adar
Rav Dovid (ben Tzvi Elimelech) of Dinov (1804-1874). Rav Dovid was the author of Tzemach Dovid and the son of the Bnei Yissoschar. He...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 10-11 Teves
Zecharia ben Berachya ben Ido Hanavi (320 or 313 BCE)
Malachi Hanavi (320 or 313 BCE). His death ended the era of prophecy.
Rav Yehuda Eilenberg,...
On Rav Boruch Ber’s Yahrtzeit, Today: Interview With Rav Yitzchok Scheiner
The following interview with Rav Yitzchok Scheiner, rosh yeshiva of the Kamenitzer Yeshiva of Yerushalayim, is presented here today, on...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 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 & History – 18 Shevat
Rav Yaakov Margulies, Av Beis Din Nuremberg (1492) Author of Seder Haget V'hachalitza, which is quoted extensively by the Rema. His son, Rav Isaac, was...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 1 Elul
Rav Dovid Hanaggid ben Avrohom ben Rambam (1224 or 1233-1300). Rav David lived in Eretz Yisrael for a number of years then moved back...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 1 Elul
Rav Dovid Hanaggid ben Avrohom ben Rambam (1224 or 1233-1300). Rav David lived in Eretz Yisrael for a number of years then moved back...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 9 Teves
Ezra Hasofer and Nechemya
Rav Ezra of Gerona (1227), the Ramban's teacher in Kabalah. He himself learned Kabbalah from Rav Yitzchak Sagi Nahor, son of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 15 Sivan
Birth, in 1565 BCE, and Yahrtzeit, in 1446 BCE (or 1436 BCE) of Yehuda, son of Yaakov Avinu (Midrash Tadshe).
Rav Yitzchak of Posen,...
A Remembrance of Hagaon Rav Gershon Yankelewitz zt”l
Written during the Sheloshim by Rabbi Eliyahu W. Ferrell
WHAT THIS IS NOT
If the reader is expecting a hesped for Mori V'Rabi, Zatzal, HaGaon Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 19 Sivan
Rav Shmuel Hominer of Yerushalayim, author of Eved HaMelech on the Chumash, and Ikarai Dinim, a summary of the laws of loshon hora with...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 21 Tammuz
Rav Shlomo of Chelm (1717-1781). Born in Zamosc, he became Rav of Chelm and Lvov (Lemberg). author of Merkevet Hamishnah, a work which is considered...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 7 Kislev
Rav Dovid Sinzheim of Strasbourg, France (1745-1812). He served as President of the "Sanhedrin" established by Napolean, the first meeting of which occurred on...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 13 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Hachassid, author of Sefer Hachassidim (1150-1217). He was born in Speyer (Shapira) and died in Regensburg. His father,...
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....
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 17 Tishrei
Rav Moshe Rosen, author of Nezer Hakodesh (1957)
Rav Dovid Kahana Shapira of Piorda (1970)
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Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 7 Teves
Rav Moshe Dovid Walli (Vally; Vali) (1697-1777). The foremost talmid of Ramchal in Padua, Italy, he practiced as...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 30 Kislev
Rav Tzvi Yehuda (Hashi) Friedman (1925-2005). Born in Pressburg, Hungary, Reb Hashi was a descendant of the Chasam Sofer, whose youngest daughter,...
