Today’s Yahrtzeits and History – 26 Tammuz

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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. Reb Meir had lost his first wife in childbirth and his second wife in a pogrom. He had also lost two children. In their 40s, the Bulmans received the Imrei Emes of Ger for a bracha for children. The result of that blessing was Nachman, who was born in New York. He attended Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchak Elchonon and then studied in its rabbinical program. He received semicha and a B.A. (in philosophy) from Yeshiva College. During the week, he learned in the Litvishe yeshiva way. On Shabbos and Yom Tov he absorbed the atmosphere of his parents’ Polishe shteibel with a love of chassidus. For years, he was also a frequent visitor at the tishin of the Modzitzer Rebbe, Rav Shaul Yedidya Taub. In 1950, Reb Nachman married Shaindel Freund, his aiyshes chayil for 52 years. He found a position in the town of Danville, Virginia, a small Orthodox community which consisted of about 30 families. He held the position for 3 years. From 1953-1954, Rabbi Bulman served as mashgiach in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchonon. He was once again pulled to the world of rabbonus when he became rov in South Fallsburg, N.Y., in 1954. During this time, he founded the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY), together with Rabbis Weitman, Goodman, and Chait. His next position was as head of Adas Jeshurun synagogue in Newport News, Virginia, beginning in 1957. Rabbi Bulman then returned to his position as mashgiach in Yeshiva University from 1962-1963, and then worked for Torah Umesorah from 1963-1967. In 1967, he took his next rabbinical position as the rav of the Young Israel of Far Rockaway. During this time, he founded Sarah Schenirer High School and Seminary in 1968, and the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway (Yeshivas Derech Eison), and he taught in both places.

Rav Yechezkel Shraga of Shinev (Rav Sinai of Zhemigrod). (1870-1941) Rav Chaim of Sanz especially treasured his fourth son, Rav Baruch of Gorlitz, saying that a lofty soul such as his had not descended to the world for the past three hundred years. When he was fourteen, Rav Baruch married the daughter of Rav Yekusiel Yehudah Teitelbaum, the Yitav Lev of Sighet and a talmid of Rav Chaim Sanzer, and in 1870, Rav Sinai was born to the couple, in Rudnik. After reaching adulthood, Rav Sinai served as rav for several years in Gorlitz and Koloshitz, before taking over a permanent position in Zmigród, a scenic mountain town about 150 kilometers from Cracow, where Jews had lived since at least 1410. Zmigród had a relatively small community – a 1900 census records it having 1,240 Jews out of a total population of 2,249. Nowadays, this region of Austrian-controlled Galicia is part of Poland. He escaped the Nazis by fleeing to Lemberg, Galicia, but was exiled to Siberia by the Soviets. He did not survive the trip.

Today in History – 26 Tammuz

· Saladin’s army defeats Crusader army at Karnei Chittin, and signals beginning of the end for Crusader kingdom, 1187.
· A pope (Clement V?) banned forced baptism of Jews, 1345. This decree was overturned by subsequent popes in 1597 and 1747.
· The Baal Shem Tov and Rav Chaim HaCohen Rappaport, the rov of Lemberg (Lvov), overcame the Frankist cult in a public dispute, 1759.
· Napoleon decreed that all Jews of the French Empire must adopt family names, 1808.
· Adolf Hitler, yemach shemo, published his personal manifesto, Mein Kampf, 1925.
· Jews of Upina, Lithuania were executed by the Nazis, 1941.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. For Rav Bulman, ZT’L, there needs to also be mentioned the extensive Harbotzes Torah that he did in his later years in Eretz Yisroel. B’Ezras Hashem, I will relate here a few of those facts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_Bulman.

    He moved to Eretz Yisroel in 1975 and a bit later became and remained for life the Mashgiach Ruchani of Yeshiva Ohr Somayach in Yerushalaiyim. For a number of years was also a Rav in Migdal HaEmek. In 1996, he opened Beis Medrosh Nachalas Tzvi in Telz Stone, and about 2000, he opened Beis Medrosh Nachaliel in Neve Yaakov. After his Petira in 2002, Kollel Nachameini was opened there L’Zecher Nishmaso.

    In his being a Gadol B’Torah, he was especially a Gadol in the Perushim and K’savim of Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, ZT’L; in fact, the beis medrosh name “Nachalas Tzvi” was L’Zecher Nishmas Rav Hirsch. In 1989, I attended the program for the 100th Yortzheit of Rav Hirsch that was held at the Beis Medrosh of Kehal Adas Jeshurun in the Washington Heights section of New York City. Rav Bulman was the featured speaker; for my first time, I saw how he was an exceptionally fantastic orator. In his D’rasha, he continually referred to Rav Hirsch as “Rabaynu.”

  2. The heading is: “Rav Yechezkel Shraga of Shinev”; but, go on to to give information on the Gorlitzer Rav, Rav Baruch Halberstam; the younger brother.
    Here are the facts, as I know them:
    Rav Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, The Shinover Rav; author of “Divrei Yechzkel; eldest son of the “Divrei Chaim”, Rav Chaim Halberstam, the Sanzer Rav, Was born in 1813.
    He was “nifter” on Teves 6, 5659 (December 19, 1898) in Shinova, Poland.

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