YAHRZEITS FOR THE 4TH OF AV ~ BEGINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT (08-08-2024)
- Rav Menachem Azaria of Fano - Rama Mipano (5380 / 1620 - 404th Yahrzeit)
Rav Menachem Azaria was born to Rav Yitzchok Berachia--a wealthy wise man and chassid-- in 1548 ש''ח in Fano, Italy. The Rama began his career in Venice where he did many public works, redacted and established the Italian nusach of prayer (See his Shu"t Siman 25) and established the recitation of Selichos to be said before daybreak. He also began daily public lectures in Venice, teaching Kabbalah based on the Pardes Rimmonim as he explains in the introduction to Pelach haRimmon. The Rama became known as one of the major disseminators of the tradition of Kabbalah in Italy and in all of the west. He passed away 4 Menachem Av 1620 ש''פ, Mantuba, Italy.
- Rav Tzvi Meir HaKohen Rabinowitz of Radomsk (5662 / 1902 - 122nd Yahrzeit)
- Chacham Raphael Ankawa - also spelled Ankavah or Encouau, Chief Rabbi of Morocco, Pamonei Zahav (5695 / 1935 - 89th Yahrzeit)
Born in Salé in 1848, Raphael Ben Mordechai Ankawa, also spelled Ankavah or Encouau, was the Chief Rabbi of Morocco and a noted commentator, talmudist, posek, and author.
- Rav Bentzion Halberstam of Bobov - Second Bobover Rebbe, Kedushas Tzion (5701 / 1941 - 83rd Yahrzeit)
Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam of Bobov (1874 - 4 Menachem Av 1941) at age thirty-one succeeded his father, the first of the dynasty, as Rebbe of Bobov. He is often referred to as the Kedushas Tzion, after the commentary on the Torah that he wrote. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1941. His successor was his son Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907-2000), who rebuilt Bobov in the United States.
- Rav Eliyohu Glucksman (5764 / 2004 - 20th Yahrzeit)
Rav Eliyahu Glucksman, dayan of the Washington Heights (New York) community, teacher at Bais Yaakov and Rika Breuers Teachers Seminary. Born in Berlin, he escaped to England in 1938, where he studied under Rav Eliyahu Dessler. He later emigrated to Eretz Yisrael, where he learned at Bais Yosef, Petach Tikvah, and then 10 years in Bnei Brak at Kollel Chazon Ish (1921-2004).
