Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 14 Tammuz

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Rav Yosef Trani, the Maharit (1568-1639). Born in Safed, he married to a descendant of Rav Yosef Caro, but fled Safed due to plague outbreak. Returned to Safed to head a yeshiva in 1594. Moved to Constantinople in 1604, becoming Rabbi of the city and leader of Turkish Jewry a few years later. Best known for his teshuvos.

Rav Shmuel Shatin, the Kos Hayeshuos (1719). Rav of Dramesht.

Rav Yehoshua Heshel (ben Baruch) Frankel-Teumim (1843). The son of the Baruch Ta’am. He lived in Komarna and was a devoted chassid of the Chozeh of Lublin but refused the Chozeh’s suggestion that he lead the Chassidim of eastern Galicia (a position that went to the Sar Shalom of Belz instead).

Rav Yaakov Yitzhak HaLevy Ruderman, (1901-1987) Rosh Yesiva of Ner Israel , Baltimore . Born on Shushan Purim in 1901 in Dolhinov, Russia; studied in Yeshivas Knesset Yisrael in Slobodka, then headed by Rav Nosson Zvi Finkel (the Alter) and Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein. Among his colleagues in Slobodka were Rav Reuven Grozovsky; Rav Ruderman’s first cousin, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky; Rav Aharon Kotler; Rav Yitzchak Hutner; In ~1926, Rav Ruderman published his only written work, Avodas Halevi. In 1930, Rav Ruderman joined his father-in-law, Rav SheftelKramer, at the latter’s yeshiva in Cleveland . In 1933, Rav Ruderman moved to Baltimore and founded the Ner Israel yeshiva, leading that yeshiva for 54 years until his passing. His death in 1987 followed less than one-and-a-half years after the passing of Rav Kaminetzky and Rav Moshe Feinstein. Posthumously, Rav Ruderman’s students have published two volumes of his teachings: Sichos Levi contains mussar/ethical insights based on the weekly parashah, while Mas’as Levi contains lectures on the 19th century work Minchas Chinuch and other Tamudic and halachic insights.

Rav Mordechai Attiah, Sephardic Rosh Yeshiva in Yerushalayim (1978)

Rav Yitzchak Eizik (ben Isamar) Rosenbaum, the Zutchke (Zutchka) Rebbe (2000).

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  1. “His death in (July) 1987 followed less than one-and-a-half years after the passing of Rav Kaminetzky and Rav Moshe Feinstein” [in March, 1986 (who had passed exactly two weeks of each other, Rav Yaakov on 29 Adar I, and Rav Moshe on 13 Adar II)]. And the passing of Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky and Rav Moshe Feinstein in March, 1986 followed about seven months after the passing of the Steipler Gaon, Rav Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky (yes, the father of, Yibodel L’Chaim Tovim V’Aruchim, Rav Chaim Kanievsky), in August, 1985. So in a period of less than TWO YEARS, FOUR of the very greatest Gedolei Torah of that entire era (of the later part of twentieth century) were Niftar:

    23 Av 5745 Rav Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky

    29 Adar I 5746 Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky

    13 Adar II 5746 Rav Moshe Feinstein

    14 Tammuz 5747 Rav Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevy Ruderman

  2. “His death in (July) 1987 followed less than one-and-a-half years after the passing of Rav Kaminetzky and Rav Moshe Feinstein” [in March, 1986 (who had passed exactly two weeks of each other, Rav Yaakov on 29 Adar I, and Rav Moshe on 13 Adar II)]. And the passing of Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky and Rav Moshe Feinstein in March, 1986 followed about seven months after the passing of the Steipler Gaon, Rav Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky (yes, the father of, Yibodel L’Chaim Tovim V’Aruchim, Rav Chaim Kanievsky), in August, 1985. So in a period of less than TWO YEARS, FOUR of the very greatest Gedolei Torah of that entire era (of the later part of twentieth century) were Niftar:

    23 Av 5745 Rav Yaakov Yisroel Kanievsky

    29 Adar I 5746 Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky

    13 Adar II 5746 Rav Moshe Feinstein

    14 Tammuz 5747 Rav Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevy Ruderman

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