27 Kislev 5655
Rav Chizkiyah Feivel Plaut was born to his father Rav Chaim in 5578 in the city of Kolin, today in the Czech Republic. From an early age, he learned with diligence, and in 5594, when he was sixteen, he traveled to study in the prestigious Pressburg Yeshivah, where he studied under the Chasam Sofer until the Rav passed away on 25 Tishrei 5600.
Rav Chizkiyah Feivel was very close to his rebbi and conveyed his Torah and his practices in a series of seforim entitled Likutei Chaver Ben Chaim. With the name of the sefer he commemorated is father, Reb Chaim and his mother Rivka, because חבר is an acronym for Chizkiyah ben Rivka. Aside for the Torah of his rebbi, his seforim also included his chiddushim on Torah, on Talmud and on Shulchan Aruch, and his teshuvos in halachah, where he responded to questions sent to him from across Hungary. After his marriage in 5609, he was appointed the Rav of Shuran in Slovakia, where he served for almost fifty years until his passing. As soon as he arrived, he established a yeshivah and many talmidim traveled to learn from him.
On 27 Kislev 5655, he passed away, and was buried in the cemetery in Shuran. Rav Chizkiyah Feivel did not have any children, but the words (Yeshayah 56:5) “venasati lecha beveisi ubechomasi yad veshem tov mibanim umibanos, shem olam eten lo asher lo yichras,” were fulfilled with him through his prominent seforim.
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The shul building in Shuran, Slovakia
