YAHRZEITS FOR THE 24TH OF IYAR ~ BEGINS FRIDAY NIGHT (06-01-2024)
- Rav Simcha HaKohen of Worms (4856 / 1096 - 928th Yahrzeit)
- Rav Yehoshua Heschel Tzoref of Cracow (5480 / 1720 - 304th Yahrzeit)
- Rav Yeshaya of Dinvotz - Talmid of the Maggid of Mezritch (5554 / 1794 - 230th Yahrzeit)
- Rav Eliezer Tzvi Safrin - Komarna Rebbe, Damesek Eliezer on Zohar, Ben Baisi (5658 / 1898 - 126th Yahrzeit)
Rav Eliezer Tzvi, the third Komarno Rebbe, was the son of Rav Yitzchok Isaac Yehuda Yechiel Safrin. His childhood was marked by suffering, poverty and deprivation. Despite this, he toiled in Torah study and he grew in Torah and Chassidus. Despite his fame and renown as Rebbe after his father’s passing, he himself traveled to the Divrei Chaim of Sanz.
- Rav Yitzchok Feigenbaum - Chief Rabbi of Warsaw (5671 / 1911 - 113th Yahrzeit)
- Rav Yisroel Sholom Yosef of Antonia - Nefesh Yishai (5704 / 1944 - 80th Yahrzeit)
- Rav Binyomin Mendelson - Rav of Kommemiyus (5739 / 1979 - 45th Yahrzeit)
Rav Binyamin Mendelson, Rav of Kommemiyus, one of the most prominent fighters for kedushas sheviis (1979). Born in Plotzk at the end of the 19th century, his father was Rav Menachem Mendel Mendelsohn. With the bracha of the Gerer Rebbe, Rav Binyomin moved to Eretz Yisroel in 1933, and was offered the position as Rov of Kfar Ata not far from Haifa and served in that capacity for 17 years. In 1951, Rav Binyomin left Kfar Ata and its kehilla of 20,000 families and accepted the offer to become the Rov of a small, religious settlement in the Negev called Kommemius, serving the community for the next 27 years.
- Rav Akiva Moshe Gottleib (5765 / 2005 - 19th Yahrzeit)
Rav Akiva Moshe Gottlieb (1923-2005). Born to Rav Shlomo Gottlieb, Rav of the Ohr Hachaim shul in Philadelphia, the family moved to Yerushalayim in 1929. After learning at the Chevron Yeshiva, his family moved back to the United States, where he learned at Torah Vodaas. In 1963, he moved back to Eretz Yisrael to help his parents. He was appointed general manager of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which he held for 14 years. He also assisted his father in Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chiam Yosef, founded in 1942. After his father’s death, Rav Akiva Moshe was responsible for it.
