YAHRZEITS FOR THE 10TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS FRIDAY NIGHT (01-20-2024)
Rav Meir Katzenellenbogen - Maharam Padua (5325 / 1565 - 459th Yahrzeit)
Rav Sholom Mizrachi Didye Sharabi - Rashash (5542 / 1782 - 242nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Sar-Shalom Mizrachi Didia ben Yitzchak Sharabi, the "Rashash" was born in 5480 (1720) in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. After being saved through a miracle, he vowed to move to the Holy Land, and after fulfilling this neder he moved to Eretz Yisrael in order to live in Yerushalayim. His journey led him through India, Baghdad and Damascus, and finally he arrived in Yerushalayim where he served as Rosh Yeshivah of Beit E"l.
Rav Shlomo Flam of Lutzk - Dibras Shlomo (5573 / 1813 - 211th Yahrzeit)
Rav Shlomo Flam passed away on 10 Shevatי' בשבט התקע"ג .5573 . Teacher of Sar Sholom of Belz, who used to leave home through window at night, because of his father in law not allowing him to learn Chassidus. Student of the Maggid of Mezritch (next in line to Baal Shem Tov) and writer of his sayings In Likute Amarim (Maggid Devorov Leyakov) along with Dibras Shlomo.
Rav Yaakov Heilbrun (5610 / 1850 - 174th Yahrzeit)
Rav Dov Berish HaKohen Rapaport - Derech Hamelech (5666 / 1906 - 118th Yahrzeit)
Rebbetzin Rivka Schneerson (5674 / 1914 - 110th Yahrzeit)
Rebbetzin Rivka Schneerson (10 Shevat 1914) a granddaughter of Rabbi DovBer, the 2nd Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, at age 16 married her first cousin, Rabbi Shmuel, who later became the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. Surviving her husband by 33 years, for many years she was the esteemed matriarch of Lubavitch, and chasidim frequented her home to listen to her accounts of the early years of Lubavitch. She is the source of many of the stories recorded in the talks, letters and memoirs of her grandson, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe). The Beis Rivka network of girls' schools are named after her.
Rav Eliezer Tzuker (5680 / 1920 - 104th Yahrzeit)
Rav Eliezer married Rivka, daughter of Rav Avrohom Yehuda HaKohen Schwartz of Bergsaz and Mad, mechaber of Kol Arye. He authored Shu”t Damesek Eliezer on Shulchon Aruch, Migdenos Eliezer on the Torah and Mosok Midevash on Mo’adim.
Rav Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson - Frierdiker Rebbe, Rebbe Rayatz, Lubavitcher Rebbe (5710 / 1950 - 74th Yahrzeit)
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn [10 Shevat 5710], known as the Rebbe Rayatz, was the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, from 1920 to 1950. He established a network of Jewish educational institutions and Chassidim that was the single most significant factor for the preservation of Judaism during the dread reign of the communist Soviets. In 1940 he moved to the USA, established Chabad world-wide headquarters in Brooklyn and launched the global campaign to renew and spread Judaism in all languages and in every corner of the world, the campaign continued and expanded so remarkably successfully by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Rav Yitzchak Isaac Sher (5712 / 1952 - 72nd Yahrzeit)
Chacham Rachamim Chai Chavita (5719 / 1959 - 65th Yahrzeit)
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 11TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS SATURDAY NIGHT (01-21-2024)
Rav Shmuel Shmelke Yehuda Leib - Imrei Zutri (5565 / 1805 - 219th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yehuda Leib Frankel (5566 / 1806 - 218th Yahrzeit)
Rav Nosson Dovid Deutsch - Nefesh Dovid (5639 / 1879 - 145th Yahrzeit)
Rav Chaim Yehoshua HaKohen Blumenthal (5648 / 1888 - 136th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yehuda Tzvi HaKohen (5679 / 1919 - 105th Yahrzeit)
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 12TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS SUNDAY NIGHT (01-22-2024)
Chacham Chaim Kapusi (5391 / 1631 - 393rd Yahrzeit)
Rav Tzvi Hirsch Schorr (5395 / 1635 - 389th Yahrzeit)
Rav Boruch Kapilish (5499 / 1739 - 285th Yahrzeit)
Rav Zev Dov Wolf Ber Schiff (5602 / 1842 - 182nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Meir Atlas - Founder of Telz (5686 / 1926 - 98th Yahrzeit)
Rav Meir was born in 1848 in Baisagola, Lithuania and in 1881 founded the Telz Yeshiva alongside Rabbi Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim, later Rov in Kelm; and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Abel zt"l (Rabbi Shimon Shkop zt"l's brother- in-law). He was Rav in a number of cities, including Libau in Latvia, Salant in Lithuania and Kobryn in Belarus. In 1904, about a year after Rabbi Yosef Zecharya Stern's passing, Rav Meir Atlas succeeded him as Rav of Shavel (Siauliai). He was the rabbi of the community of Shaveli (Lithuania) for more then 20 years.
Rav Yosef HaKohen Schonfeld - Kesef Yoshiv (5693 / 1933 - 91st Yahrzeit)
Rav Yisrael Avrohom Alter Landau - Choson Yeshaya (5702 / 1942 - 82nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Shabtai Aton (5766 / 2006 - 18th Yahrzeit)
Rav Shabsai Aron - Ram in Yeshivas Porat Yosef, Chever Moetzes Chachmei Hatorah, Rosh Yeshivas Reishis Chochma (5766 / 2006 - 18th Yahrzeit)
Rav Shlomo Yitzchok Schwartz - Schwartzie (5777 / 2017 - 7th Yahrzeit)
Rabbi Shlomo-Yitzchak ("Schwartzie") Schwartz [12 Shevat 5777] became in 1969 one of Chabad’s first full time college campus rabbis, serving UCLA and other UC system colleges for almost twenty years. In the 1980's the widowed Schwartzie married Olivia, and in 1989 they opened Chai Center, independent of Chabad, to give full expression to his creative--and wild--ideas for adult education for "every Jew that moves." Over the years he had a life-changing effect on thousands of Jews. For the last two decades of his life, he was Ascent's "Summer Rabbi-Scholar in Residence"-- accompanied and aided by Olivia, of course.
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 13TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS MONDAY NIGHT (01-23-2024)
Rav Yaakov Shimshon Shapira (5568 / 1808 - 216th Yahrzeit)
Rav Mordechai Yaffe of Lechovitch - Ohr Yeshorim, Mira D'chi (5570 / 1810 - 214th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yom Tov Netil of Tchechnov - Tahor Rayonim (5577 / 1817 - 207th Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe Dan of Skver (5680 / 1920 - 104th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yissocher Shlomo Teichtel - Mishna Sechiro (5705 / 1945 - 79th Yahrzeit)
Rav Avrohom Bentzion Shapiro of Yerushalayim (5707 / 1947 - 77th Yahrzeit)
Rav Refoel Boruch Sorotzkin (5739 / 1979 - 45th Yahrzeit)
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 14TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS TUESDAY NIGHT (01-24-2024)
Rav Yaakov Yehoshua Falk - Pnei Yehoshua (5516 / 1756 - 268th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yechiel Dancyger - Alexander Rebbe (5654 / 1894 - 130th Yahrzeit)
Rav Aharon Arye Leib Leifer - Nadvorna Rebbe (5657 / 1897 - 127th Yahrzeit)
Rav Dovid Shapiro of Yerushalayim - Bnei Tzion (5731 / 1971 - 53rd Yahrzeit)
Rav Arye Moshe Eliyohu Kaplan (5743 / 1983 - 41st Yahrzeit)
Rav Elozor Hendeles (5764 / 2004 - 20th Yahrzeit)
Rav Doniel Frisch - Mosok Midevash (5765 / 2005 - 19th Yahrzeit)
Rav Frisch would spend his days immersed in study and dveikus in Meron at the Tziun HaRashbi. As he sat there, the wellsprings of wisdom opened for him and the power of the sanctity of the remains of the G-dly Tanna [Rav Shimon bar Yochai] gave him the ability to begin the task of composing his sefer [the commentary Mosok Midevash on the Zohar.]
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 15TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT (01-25-2024)
Rav Gedalia Aharon of Linitz - Chen Aharon
Rav Yitzchok Issac - Tevuos Shor (5497 / 1737 - 287th Yahrzeit)
Rav Chaim Mordechai Margulies (5583 / 1823 - 201st Yahrzeit)
Rav Nechemia of Dobrovne - Divrei Nechemia (5612 / 1852 - 172nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Gedalya Aharon Rabinowitz - Linitzer Rebbe, Teshuas Chen (5638 / 1878 - 146th Yahrzeit)
Rav Shlomo Yehoshua Dovid Gutterman - Radzimin Rebbe (5662 / 1902 - 122nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Refoel Shlomo Laniado (5685 / 1925 - 99th Yahrzeit)
Rav Boruch Kunstat - Benno (5727 / 1967 - 57th Yahrzeit)
Rav Avraham Weinfeld of Monsey - Lev Avraham (5749 / 1989 - 35th Yahrzeit)
Born in Kashau he studied under Rav Moshe Neuschloss of Serdhali and Vadmir, he was also a talmid of the Klausenberg Rav. He was dedicated to Torah and Avodas Hashem, he later lived in Monsey NY, and authored the seforim Lev Avraham.
YAHRZEITS FOR THE 16TH OF SHEVAT ~ BEGINS THURSDAY NIGHT (01-26-2024)
Rav Dovid of Kolomai (5492 / 1732 - 292nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Dovid of Kalamya (5492 / 1732 - 292nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Yona Navon (5520 / 1760 - 264th Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe Ginz (5550 / 1790 - 234th Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe was the father of Rav Akiva Eiger.
Rav Yissocher Ber Bloch - Binas Yissocher, Av Beis Din of Mattersdorf, Rabbi Ber Chossid (5558 / 1798 - 226th Yahrzeit)
Rav Osher Tzvi of Ostraha - Maayan Hachochma (5577 / 1817 - 207th Yahrzeit)
Rav Asher Tzvi - Rav of Koritz (5577 / 1817 - 207th Yahrzeit)
Rav Yaakov Shimshon of Cracow (5597 / 1837 - 187th Yahrzeit)
Rav Boruch Sholom Schneerson (5629 / 1869 - 155th Yahrzeit)
Rabbi Baruch-Shalom Schneersohn was the firstborn of the 3rd Rebbe of Chabad, the Tzemach Tzedek, and the great-great-grandfather of the 7th Rebbe (1902-1994). Unlike his younger brothers became the, he remained inflexible in his determination not to accept any position as head of a Chassidic community, even though he was eminently qualified. He was exceptionally humble.
Rav Yaakov Hager - Zablatov Rebbe (5641 / 1881 - 143rd Yahrzeit)
Rav Shlomo Yehoshua Dovid Gutterman - Radzimin Rebbe (5663 / 1903 - 121st Yahrzeit)
Rav Sholom Mordechai Schwadron - Maharsham (5671 / 1911 - 113th Yahrzeit)
R' Sholom Mordechai Hacohen was born on 27th Nisan. His father, R' Moshe zt'l made a good income from his winery. In 5627, during the war between Austria and Germany, he lost all he had and accepted a position as rov in Potok, near Sadigura. He later became rov in Yoslovitch, Butchotch, and then in Berzhan. Over the years he became the posek.
Rav Alter Yechezkel Horowitz (5754 / 1994 - 30th Yahrzeit)
Rav Avrohom Shlomo Biderman - Lelover Rebbe (5760 / 2000 - 24th Yahrzeit)
