Rav Betzalel HaKohen - Rav of Vilna, Mareh Cohen, Shu"t Reishis Bikkurim
Miriam the Prophetess (2487 / -1274 - 3,297th Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe Teomim (5399 / 1639 - 385th Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe was the son of Rav Shimon Teomim Lemel of Vienna. Rav Moshe Teomim, served as Av Bais Din of Moravia (Mehrin) he passed away on 10 Nissan.
Rav Shmuel Shmelke - Av Beis Din of Ostroha (5447 / 1687 - 337th Yahrzeit)
Rav Shmuel Yechiel of Botoshan (5622 / 1862 - 162nd Yahrzeit)
Rav Moshe Feilshus - Rav Moshe New Yorker (5763 / 2003 - 21st Yahrzeit)
After he married, he had two children, and fled Germany for America after Kristallnacht. He settled on the East Side, where many frum families lived. He continued his avodas Hashem privately and quietly without anyone knowing who he really was. The Boyaner and Kapishniczer Rebbes recognized his true colors and they were among the few who really knew him to be a Tzaddik nistor.
Rav Shalom Mashash - Sephardic Rav of Yerushalayim (5763 / 2003 - 21st Yahrzeit)
Rav Shalom was the Sephardic Rav of Yerushalayim (1909-2003). Born the Moroccan city of Meknes, a city of Torah known as the Yerushalayim of Morocco. Rabbi Shalom learned under Rabbi Meir Toledano until the age of 14. His father then sent him to learn under the great sage Rabbi Yitzchak Sabag. In 1960 with the petirah of the chief Rabbi and dayan of Casablanca, Rabbi Dovid Ibn Sussan, Rabbi Shalom became its raavad and chief rav, serving there for thirty years. In 1978, he moved to Eretz Yisrael to take the position as Chief Sephardic Rav of Yerushalayim.
Rav Alter Chanoch Henich Lebowitz - Rosh Yeshiva Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim (5768 / 2008 - 16th Yahrzeit)
Rav Henoch Leibowitz, an only child, was born in 1918 in Salcininkai, Lithuania. The Rosh Yeshiva came to America in 1926 when his father Rav Dovid was hired by Mesivta Torah Vodaas as a teacher. In 1933, Rav Dovid left Torah Vodaas and founded Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen. His father’s death in 1941 left him in charge of the fledgling yeshiva while still in his early 20s.
