Today’s Yahrtzeits – 9-10 Tishrei
Yahrtzeits - 9 Tishrei
Rebbi Elazar ben Rav Shimon (123 CE)
Rav Avraham Saba, author of Tzror Hamor (1519)
Rav Avraham Abali ben Chaim HaLevi Gumbiner...
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...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 29 Tammuz
Rav Yochanan HaSandler
Rav Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)(1040-1105). He traced his ancestry through the Tanna'im Rav Yochanan HaSandlar and Hillel the Elder back to King Dovid. He...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 23-24 Nissan
Yahrtzeits - 23 Nissan
-Rav Moshe ben Yosef MiTrani, the Mabit (1505-1585). Son of Rav Yosef MiTrani (Mahait), Rav Moshe was born in Salonika, Greece....
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 12 Tishrei
Rav Avraham Malach, the son of the Mezritcher Maggid (1741-1776). R. Avraham learned Kabbalah from the Maggid and the revealed Torah from...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 22-23 Sivan
Yahrtzeits - Friday, 22 Sivan
Rav Isamar Rosenbaum, Nadvorna Rebbe (1973). Son of Rav Meir of Kretchnif, a descendent of the Premishlaner dynasty, Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 13 Shevat
Rav Mordechai of Lechovitz, founder of Kobrin and Slonim dynasties (1810). He always told his chassidim that he first learned Torah from Rav Aharon...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 27 Kislev
Rav Tzvi Hersh Rosanish, author of Tesha Shitos (1804). He was the son of Rav Yissachar Dovrish, Av Beis Din of Podhajce, and grandson...
Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 19 Tammuz
Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel zt"l, known as Rav Leizer Yudel Finkel, lived from 1879 to 1965 and served the rosh yeshiva of the Mir...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 9 Iyar
Rav Avigdor Kara, Rav of Prague and author of Hahanek Hakaneh Hagadol (1439)
Rav Yitzchak Bernays (Barneis) (1792-1849). Born in Mainz, Germany, Reb Yitzchak learned...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 20 Shevat
Birth and petira of Asher ben Yaakov Avinu (1565 BCE)
Rav Avraham Abba Freedman (1920-2002). He was sent from Brooklyn to Detroit in 1944 by...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 13 Adar
Rav Yehuda (ben Shmuel) HeChasid, author of Sefer Chasidim (1150-1217). His father (1120-1175), led a famous yeshiva in Speyer, and...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & 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 and History – 17 Av
Rav Shimshon Wertheimer (1658-1724). Born in Worms, Germany, he learned in the yeshivas of Worms and Frankfurt. After marrying the daughter of the Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 7-8 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro of Lublin (1887-1933). His father, Rav Yaakov Shimshon Katz of Shatz, Romania, was a descendent of Rav Pinchas...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 18 Iyar
Lag Ba'omer, yahrtzeit of Rav Shimon bar Yochai, author of the Holy Zohar, and a disciple of Rabbi Akiva. After Rabbi...
Rashi – A Tribute To The Rebbi Of Klal Yisroel On His Yahrtzeit, Today
Anyone who has any learning background is a student of Rashi. Rashi's commentaries are part and parcel of both Chumash...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 6 Cheshvan
Rav Yehuda Hachosid, founder of the Churva shul in Yerushalayim (1700)
Rav Shlomo Dovid Yehoshua Weinberg, the Admor Hatzair of Slonim (1943)
Rav Yechiel Menachem of...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 8 Av
Rav Shmuel Shmelke Toibish, Rav of Yas (Jassi), author of Chayei Olam, Milchamos Hashem, and Mitzvas Chalitzah (1865).
Rav Yehuda HaLevy of Ragoza, founder of...
The Skulener Rebbe, Rav Eliezer Zusiah Portugal zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 29 Av
Although over two decades have passed since the petirah of the Skulener Rebbe, Rav Eliezer Zusiah Portugal zt"l, the incredible impact that he had...
