Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 26 Tammuz
Rav Nachman Bulman (1925-2002). His parents, Reb Meir and Ettel Bulman were Gerrer chasidim who had moved to the Lower East Side from Poland....
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 – 27 Shevat
Rav Elazar Rokeach (1758-1837). Born in Stanislow, Poland, he was the son of R' Arye Leib and a grandson...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 11 Adar
Rav Gershon (ben Yitzchak) Ashkenazi (1625-1693). Born in Holtz, Germany, he left home to learn in the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 13 Av
Rav Mordechai Banet of Nikolsburg, Hungary, author of Parashas Mordechai (1753-1829)
Rav Nosson Nota Shapira, author of Megaleh Amukos and Ranav Ofanim (1585-1633). Eliyahu HaNavi is...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 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 – 17 Iyar
Rav Yechezkel Landau, the Noda Beyehuda (1713-1793). Born in Apta, Poland, learned and served in Brody, serving as Av Beis Din at...
Today’s History & Yahrtzeits – 1 Kislev
Rav Ephraim Alankava, Rav of Telmisan Algeria (on the border with Morocco) and author of Shaar Kevod Shamayim (1441).
Rav Trivash of Mantova, Italy (1551).
Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeit & 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, he...
Today’s Yahrzteits – 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 Yahrtzeits & History – 2 Nissan
Rabbeinu Baruch, father of the Maharam miRottenberg (1275)
Rav Eliyahu Kalmankash, Rav of Lublin (1633)
Rav Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson, the Rebbe RaShaB, 5th ...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 11 Teves
Rav Moshe of Ostraha, author of Arugas Habosem (1784).
Rav Shlomo Eiger, Rav of Posen, author of Gilyon Maharsha, son of Rav Akiva Eiger. (1851)
Rav...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 6 Tammuz
Rav Yisrael Yaakov Algazi, grandson of Rav Shlomo Algazi, author of Yavin Shemua. He served the Sephardic community of Yerushalayim, replacing the...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 2 Cheshvan
Rav Baruch Hager, the Seret-Viznitz Rebbe, the Makor Baruch (1895-1963). Born to Rav Yisrael of Vizhnitz and Rebbetzin...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 28 Shevat
Rav Alexander Sender of Zholkov (~1660-1737). He was the son of Rav Ephraim Zalman Shor, Magid of Lvov, and was orphaned as an infant....
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 15 Teves
The Amora, Mashrisha bar Pekud of Bavel
Rav Raphael of Bershed, a talmid of Rav Pinchas of Koritz (1827)
Rav Chaim Mordechai Rosenbaum of Nadvorna (1904-1977)....
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 6 Kislev
Rav Yakov Schick of Karlin, author of Mishkenos Yakov (1844).
Rav Menachem Ash, Rav of Ungvar (1869)
Rav Mordechai Dovid Teitelbaum of Drohbitch (1919).
Rav Eliezer Horowitz...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 2 Iyar
Rav Kalman Vermaiza of Lvov (1560). One of the first marbitzei Torah in Poland.
Rav Nosson Shapiro (1570), author of She'arim eshaarei Dura.
Rav Shmuel...
Today’s Yahrtzeits – 14 Tammuz
-Rav Yosef Trani, the Maharit (1568-1639). Born in Tzefas, he married to a descendant of Rav Yosef Caro, but fled Tzefas due to plague...
Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 3 Iyar
Choni Hama'agal (see see Menachos 94b, Rashi).
Rav Aryeh Leib Tzintz of Plotzk, the Maharal Tzintz (1833). Author of Get Mekushar, Maayanei Hachachma on Bava Metzia,...
