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 the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 26 Cheshvan
Rav Shlomo Segal, Av Beis Din Polna'ah and Lvov, he authored MiBeis Levi (1638)
Rav Raphael Hoken of Hamburg (1723-1803). Born in Liphland to...
Rav Nachman Bulman zt”l, On His Eleventh Yahrtzeit, Today, 26 Tammuz
Rav Nachman Bulman's parents were Gerrer chassidim who immigrated to America after two other sons had already passed...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 28 Iyar
Shmuel Hanavi (930-878 BCE)
Rav Yosef Yehuda Reiner, rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Kol Torah. The yeshiva, located in Bayit Vegan, was founded in 1939 by...
Today’s Yahrtzeit & History – 14 Iyar
-Rav Meir Baal Haness (121 CE). A descendant of proselytes, av Meir was a talmid of Rebbi Akiva, Rabbi Yishmael, and Elisha ben...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 18 Sivan
Rav Avraham Hakohen Rappaort Shrentzel, Rosh Yeshivas Chevron (1584-1651). As a youth, he learned under Rav Meshulam Feivush, the Rav of Cracow. He married...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 25 Shevat
Rav Yisrael Lipkin Salanter (1810-1883), founder and spiritual father of the Mussar movement. Born in Zager (near Kovno), ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 16 Shevat
Rav Dovid of Kolomai, a talmid of the Baal Shem Tov (1732)
Rav Yona Navon, Rav of Yerushalayim (1713-1760). Appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 12 Teves
Rav Moshe Margulies, author of Pnei Moshe on the Yerushalmi (1781)
Rav Moshe of Pshevorsk, author of Ohr Pnei Moshe . (1805)
Rav Mordechai Chaim Kastelantiz...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 4 Adar
Rav Achai bar Rav Huna of Rabanan Soverai, 506 CE
The body of R. Meir (MaHaRaM) of Rotenburg's was released for burial in 1307, fourteen...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 24-25 Kislev
Yahrtzeits - 24 Kislev
Rav Chaim Chizkiyahu Medini, the Sdei Chemed (1832-1904). Rav Chaim was born in Yerushalayim and was married at 18. After...
Rav Eliezer Geldzahler, On His Fifth Yahrtzeit, Today
By Rabbi Yisroel Besser
Reb Eliezer Geldzahler was an exceptional person; a gifted personality who used his too short lifetime to change the landscape of the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 8 Adar
Rav Shmuel Dovid Ungar of Neitra, a descendent of Don Yitzchak Abarbanel.
Rav Gershon of Lotzk, a talmid of the Mezritcher Maggid (1788).
Rav Aryeh Leib...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 23-24 Iyar
Yahrtzeits - Friday, 23 Iya
Rav (Moshe) Yehoshua Heschel of Dinov (1813). A talmid of Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev and Rav Moshe Leib of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and 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, the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 15 Adar, Shushan Purim
Rav Zvi Hirsch Kaidanover of Vilna and Frankfurt, author of Kav Hayashar (1712)
Rav Yosef Leifer (ben Yisachar Bertchi) of Pittsburgh, the Tzidkas Yosef (1891-1966)....
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 28 Kislev
Rav Avraham Ravigo (1714). Born in Modena, Italy, he became highly esteemed as both a supporter of Torah and as a great Torah scholar...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 5 Elul
Rav Dovid Zvi Shlomo Biederman, known as Reb Dovid'l (1844-1918), leader of Chassidic community of Yerushalayim. Born in Lelov, his parents were Rav Eliezer...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History, 13 Tammuz
Rav Moshe Rivkash (Rivka's), author of Be'er Hagolah on Shulchan Aruch (1684). He was one of four great tzadikim of Vilna who lived ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 9 Adar
Rav Mordechai Meisel, the parnes of Prague, a great Jewish philanthropist who saved many Jewish lives in pogroms (1601).
Rav Shlomo Zalman of Volozhin, brother...
