(2489) "And it was in the 40th year, on the first of the eleventh month, since Moshe was clarifying,etc." and he began to teach the book "Misneh Torah" to the Children of Israel in the fortieth year of their wanderings (Devorim 1:2), until the 7th of Adar. (If we divide the pasukim of "D'varim" by 36 days- the 36 days from the first of Shevat until the 7th of Adar- we will see that on the day of Tu B'Shevat he said the pasukim (Parshat Eikev 11:10-12) that tell the praises of the land of Israel: "For the land to which you come to possess it- it is not like the land of Egypt... a Land that Hashem, your G-d, seeks out; the eyes of Hashem, your G-d, are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to yeaRabbis end." (Imrei Noam)

the Plague of Locust; Prophecy of Ezekiel on Tyrus and Egypt (Yechez'kel 26)

On Rosh Hodesh Shevat the comprehension of the Oral Torah is aroused, and a it is a New Year of the Torah, "and still the words are alive and established in every soul of Israel, that are opened in it wellsprings in the elucidation of the Torah." (Hayei HaRim, Tu B'Shevat).

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Nota of Chelm, author of "Nota Sha'ashuim" passed away. Zt"l. (5572)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Elazar Vazi (son of Rabbi Yosef) Berlin from Hamburg, author of "Misneh D'Rabbi El(ie)azar" passed away. Zt"l. (5574)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Moshe (son of Rabbi Yosef) Maharam Shik passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Brezhevah). (5667/1907)

HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Moshe Yechial HaLevy of Ozhorov, author of "Aish Dat," "Be'er Moshe," and more passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Bnei Brak). (5731)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Avaraham Yehuda (son of Rabbi Yaakov) Farbstein, Rosh Yeshivat Hebron "K'nesset Yisrael" in Jerusalem, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaMenuchot). (5757)

King Yannai died

HaRav Hakadosh Rabbi Meshulam Zusha (son of Rabbi Eliezar Lipman) of Anapoli, author of "Menorat Zahav," passed away. Zt"l. Once he fasted for three days because he had blessed "Hamotzi" without full concentration, but rather for his own enjoyment and to quiet his hunger. ("Yasreish Yaakov" of "Shema Shlomo" in the name of Sifrei Yiraim). (5560)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Simcha Bunim (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Mendaleh) Kalish of Vorke passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Tiberias). (5667)

HaGaon HaTzadik Rabbi Mantzur (son of HaGaon Rabbi Yaakov Ben-Shimon passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaMenuchot). (5758)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Leib Mochiach of Pilnai.

Yahrzeit of Asher ben Yaakov Aveinu, Prince of the Tribe.

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Moshe Yehuda (Aryeh) Leib (son of Rabbi Yaakov) of Sasov passed away. Zt"l. He said that when he would pass to the next world, he would not enter Gan Eden until all the wicked would be released from Gehinom. Not only that, but every year on this day of his yartzeit he worked to take them out. (HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi David Moshe of Kretchenov zt"l in "Arbaah Arazim." See Sipurei Hasidim A, 164 about the nigun at his funeral). (5567)

HaRav HaKadosh Avraham (son of Rabbi Alexander) Katz of Kalisk passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Tiberias). "From today and until the 13th of Shevat, the hilulah of the Lechvetzer, may his merit protect us, is for me like "'chol hamoed.'" (HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi M. H. Slonimer zt"l in the name of HaRav HaKadosh of Kubrin, zt"l). (5570)

Yahrzeit of the "Baba Sali" HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yisrael (son of Rabbi Massud) Abuhatzeira of Netivot passed away. Zt"l. (5744/1984)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisro'el Charif of Sitnov, author of the Tiferes Yisro'el.

The Elders of Israel came to Ezekiel to receive G-d's guidance (Yechez'kel 20:1)

Yahrzeit HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Avraham Mordechai) Alter of Gur, author of "Sefat Emmet" passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Gur). (5665)

Yahrzeit. 35 fighters fell on their way to the beseiged Gush Etzion. (Erev Shabat Kodesh Bo). Hashem Yinkom Damam. (5708)

Yahrzeit. The "Dakar" submarine sank in the Mediteranean Sea. Hashem Yinkom Damam. It was located Erev Shabat Kodesh (B'halotecha) on the 13th of Sivan, 5759. (5728)

Yahrzeit HaGaon HaTzadik Rabbi Shlomo Zalman (son of HaGaon Moreinu Rabbi Yisrael Haim) Friedman, Av Beit Din Rahav-Loganu passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5740)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Gur, author of the Sefas Emes (5665/1905); Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Yeshayah Hakonen, author of Misgeres hashulchon (5673/1913)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKAdosh Rabbi Yitzchak of Kalish (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Aharon Aryeh the Great of Primeshlan) passed away. Zt"l. (5600)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman, author of "Oneg Yom Tov" passed away. Zt"l. (5639)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Haim Tzvi (son of HaRav HaKAdosh Rabbi Hananya Yom Tov) Teitelbaum, author of "Atzei Haim" of Seagate passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Seagate). (5686)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Gedalya Hertz, Rosh Yeshiva Hayei Harim- Tel Aviv passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Zichron Meir). (5738)

Yahrzeits of Ezra the Scribe and Nechemia ben Hachaliah; the severe famine in jerusalem before the destruction of the First Temple (Yirmiyohu 32:9)

The Magen Avraham brings the opinion of the Yalkut Shimoni that Shemarya passed away on the 7th of Shevat. And even if he passed away on the 7th of Adar, in any event the form departs thirty days previous, which would be the 7th of Shevat. (2489)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi David (son of Rabbi Shlomo Tzvi) Admor of Lelov passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Lelov). (5574/1814)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Natan David of Praziba (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Biala) author of "These AreThe Words Said To David" passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Shaditz-Petach Tikva). (5590)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Mordechai David (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Zvi H.) Unger of Dombrova passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Dombrova). (5607)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Mordechai Zeev) HaLevy Segal Ettinga, author of the responsa "M'haria HaLevy passed away. Zt"l. (5651)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Mordechai David (son of Rabbi Baruch Levin, author of "Darcei David," RoshYeshiva "Eizt Chayim", Jerusalem, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaMenuchot). (5627)

Death of the last of the Elders who received the Oral Torah from Joshua

Yahrzeit HaRav HaTzadik Rabbi Yosef Meir (son of HaGaon HaTzadik Rabbi Tzvi) Kahana, Admor of Sphink-Jerusalem, passed away. Zt"l. (5788)

Yahrzeit HaRav Yehosef (son of Rabbi Menachem) Schwartz, author of :Tevuat Haaretz," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5625)

During the Holocaust, HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Aharon of Belz, zt"l, and his brother HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Mordechai of Bilgarai, zt"l were saved. The Belz have the custom to make a Seudat Hodaya and don't say Tachanun. (5704)

Yahrzeit HaGaon HaTzadik Rabbi Nachum Abba (son of Rabbi Aharon Tzvi) Grosbard passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Bnei Brak). (5753)

The king of Babylonia surrounded Jerusalem; Jeremiah bought the field (Yirmihohu 32:9)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Meir (son of Yitzchak) Katzenelenbogen of Padova passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Padova). (5325)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Shalom Mizrachi Sharabi, "HaRashash," author of "Siddur HaRashash," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). He promised that prayers said at his grave would not go unheeded. (5537/1777)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Shlomo of Lutzk, author of "Diberet Shlomo," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Sakal). (5573)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo (son of Rabbi Yitzchak) Tiechtal, Av Beit Din Pishtian, author of the responsa "Mishneh Sachir," was killed Al Kiddush HaShem. Zt"l. HaShem Yinkom Damo. (5705)

Yahrzeit HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Shalom Dov Bear) of Lubavitch-Brooklyn passed away. Zt'l. (Buried in Brooklyn). (5710)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yitzchak Issac (son of Rabbi Yosef Haim) Sher, Rosh Yeshiva Slobodka-Bnei Brak passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Bnei Brak). (5712)

Yahrzeit HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Rachamim Hai Havita HaCohen, Rosh Av Beit Din Gerba, author of "Minhat Cohen," "Simchat Cohen," and more, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Berachya). (5719)

Yahrzeit HaKadosh Dr. Shmuel Gillis, of Karmei Tzur, senior hematologty oncologist at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, who treated all patients (Jews and Arabs alike) with utmost humaneness - murdered by Arab terrorists. Hashem Yinkom Damo. (5761)

Ezekiel's prophesy on Pharoh (Yechez'kel 29:1)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Margoliyos, author of the Pnei Moshe commentary on the Talmud Yerushalmi

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Tzvi Aryeh (son of Rabbi Yitzchak) shick, Av Beit Din Shearvuar - Los Angeles passed away. (Buied in Skvair). (5756)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Capoci of Cairo, Egypt

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yaakov Shimon of Zaslov (son of HaKadosh Rabbi Pinchas of Kortz) passed away. Zt"l. (5568)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Mordechai of Lechvitch passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Stolin). See the 4th of Shevat. (5570)

HaGaon Moreinu Rabbi Baruch (son of HaRav HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Zalman) Sorotzkin, Rosh Yeshiva Telz in Clevland, born and passed away. (5677-5739)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Avigdor (son of Rabbi Yonatan Binyamin) Pollack of Sphink-Seagate passed away. Zt"l. (5697)

HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Avraham Ben Zion (son of HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yehosua Tzvi Michel) Shapira of Jerusalem passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5707)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Ya'akov Yehoshu'a Falk, author of the P'nei Yehoshu'a (5516/1756)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Aharon Leifer of Nadvorna, author of the Yad Aharon

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Yaakov Yehosua (son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch) Pollack, author of "P'nei Yehosua," passed away. (Buried in Frankfurt). (5516)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yechial Danziger "The Admor HaZakain" of Alexander (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Shraga Feivel of Gracia) passed away on Motzei Shabat. Zt"l. (Buried in Alexander). (5654)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu David (son of Rabbi Menachem Ben Zion) Shapira, author of "Bnei Zion," of Jerusalem passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaMenuchot). (5731)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

Tu B'Shevat: the new year for trees.

Rachel, wife of Yaakov, became pregnant.

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Haim Mordechai (son of Rabbi Menachem Manish) Margoliyot, author of "Shaarei Tsuvah," passed away. Zt"l. (5583)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Gedalya Aharon (son of Rabbi Yitzchak Yoal) of Linitz, author of "Chen Aharon," passed away. Zt"l. (5638)

At Maariv it is desirable to pray, in the prayer "Beraich Aleynu," for a kosher etrog for the festival of Sukkot, may it come to us for good, (from "Bnei Yissachar"). Indeed the pure-hearted should concentrate on this in all the Shabat prayers. "Utahair leebanu lavdecha vemet"- spells l-u-l-a-v. Also in "Sanctify us in Your Mitzvot" focus on the simple meaning of the words.

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Sholom Mordechai HaKohen Svadron, author of the Maharsham Responsa (5671/1911)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu (son of Rabbi Hanan) Navon, author of "Nahpah B'Kesef," passed away. Zt"l. (5520)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yaakov, son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi David) of Zablatov passed away. Zt"l. (Buried there). (5641)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Shalom Mordechai (son of Rabbi Moshe) HaCohen Schvardon) "MoRhaShaM" of Brizen passed away. Zt"l. (5671)

The "Struma" ship was sunk, with 748 maapilim on board. HaShem Yinkom Damam. (5701)

HaTzadik Rabbi Avraham Shlomo (son of HaRav HaKadosh M.N.) of Lelov-Jerusalem passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5760)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi David of Kolomai

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Palagi, author of about 80 Torah volumes; Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yechez'kel of Kozmir, the Father of the Modgitz dynasty (5616/1860); Yahrzeit of Rabbi ya'akov Kranz, the Dubna Maggid (Preacher)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yehezkal (son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch) of Kuzmir passed away. Zt"l. (5616)

(On the second day of Parshat Yitro) HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Haim (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yaakov) Palage, author of "Moed L'kol Chai" and more, passed away. (Buried in Azmir). (5628)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Benyomin Beinish Finkel, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir (5750); Yahrzeit of Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Shapiro, author of the Benei Yiss'ochor

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Binyamin Beinish (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Eliezar Yehuda) Finkel, Rosh Yeshiva Mir, passed away. Zt"l. Buried on Har HaMenuchot. (5750)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Avrohom Shmue'l Binyomin Sofer, author of the Ksav Sofer; Yahrzeit of Rabbi Aryei Leib Hakohen, author of the Ketzos Hachoshen

HaRav HaKAdosh Rabbi Shmuel (son of Rabbi Yehial M. Aharon), author of "Divrei Shmuel" of Slonim passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Warsaw). (5676--Reut)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Shimon (son of Rabbi Yehuda) Greenfeld of Smahali, author of the responsa "MahaRShaG" passed away. Zt"l. (5690)

Birth of Asher, son of Yaakov Avinu, alav hashalom. He lived 123 or 126 years, and passed away on this day. (Buried in Kadesh Naftali). (2196)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe ben maimon the Rambam

HaGaon Rabbi Ovadia Hedaya, author of the responsa "Yaskil Avdi," passed away. Zt"l. (5729)

HaKadosh Rabbi Yosef of Yampoli (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yechiel Michael HaMaggid of Zlotskov) passed away. Zt"l. (5572)

Erev Shabat Kodesh Yitro: "Seudat Yitro." The Jews of Tunisia are joyous and sing. "The Ten Commandments" are written in the Parsha, and the Torah resembles a bride, as it says, "Morasha Kehilat Yaakov." The Sages explain, "Don't read morash, but rather mu'urasa, (bethrothed)." The festive meal comes to express the joy of receiving the Torah. According to the elders of the community, this meal is in thanksgiving because during the week of Parshat Yitro, a plague which afflicted children that had broken out in Tunisisa ended. In Algeria it is a Yom Tov, and tachanun is not said at Mincha. All the people gather to hear the Ten Commandments, and feasted on poultry, (not meat- which would qualify for sacrifices on the alter). It is called "Seudat SiYUM - Seudat Yitro U'Moshe.

HaGaon Moreinu 'Rabeinu Rabbi Yehuda Leib (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Meir Mattenhausen) Hanalash, author of "Vayigash Yehuda" on Tur Orach Hayim, of Lublin passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Lublin). (5356)

HaRishon L'Tzion HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Moshe (son of Yehonatan) Galanti II, "HaMaharsham G.N.," of Jerusalem passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5449)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yitzchak (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Mordechai) Manshkitch, author of "Toldot Yitzchak" and "Zichron Tov," passed away. Zt"l. (5628)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yechiel Meir Lipschitz of Gustinin passed away. Zt"l. (Buried there). (5648)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yaakov (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Eliezar) Videnfeld, author of "Kochav M'Yaakov," passed away. Zt"l. (5654)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yechiel Yehoshua (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yerachmiel Tzvi) Rabinovitz, Admor of Biali-Jerusalem, author of "Helkat Yehoshua," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). He once said that this day is "thirty days prior to the holiday"- that is the hilula of the rebbi, Rabbi Elimelech, zt"l, and it is necessary to begin "preparations" for this great day. And indeed he himself left the world on this day. (5742)

HaGaon HaRav Yehoshua Heschel Bream, Rosh Yeshivat "Tiferet Yisrael," of Razin-Jerusalem passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5746)

A festival in "Megilat Taanit" celebrated the death of Gasklagas, and the nullification of his decrees. Shimon HaTzadik heard a heavenely voice from the Holy of Holies: "???" (3426-3438)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Menachem Mendel, "The Shariff" of Kotzk, (son of HaGaon Moreinu v"rabeinu Rabbi Leibush of Guryeh) passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Kotzk). (5619)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yehuda Leib (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Shlomo) Eiger, author of "Torat Emet" and "Imrei Emet," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Lublin). (5648)

HaGaon HaTzadik Rabbi Yehuda Zeev (son of HaGaon Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak) Segal, Rosh Yeshiva Manchester, England, compiler of the "Shmirat HaLashon Calender," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Manchester). He testified: "There is a not a family in the world that learns two halachot a day, according to the order, that has not seen a redeeming of their issues." (5753)

War of Israel against the tribe of Benjamin (Shoftim 20); idol made by Michah (Shoftim 17)

HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yehosua, "Mahori," (son of HaRav HaKadosh the "Sar Shalom,") of Belz passed away. Zt"l. (On the same day that he founded "Kahal Machziekei HaDaat" of Hareidi Judaism together with the Gedolim of his generation, and said it would forever be a day of joy for Israel). (5654)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yitzchak Bokovaza, Rosh Av Beit Din Tripoli, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Tripoli). (5690)

HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Moshe (son of Rabbi Meir) Klairs, Gedol Av Beit Din Tiberias, author of "Torat HaEretz," passed away. Zt'L. Every day of his life he reviewed the words of the Gaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Haim, brother of the Maharal of Prague, zt"l, that if only the Torah learners knew the reward given to those who toil in it despite tremendous burdens, they would not want to engage in Torah study that wasn't a burden. (5694)

Prophecy of Zecharia (Zecharia 1:7).

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shneor Zalman of Ladi, author f the Tanya; Yahrzeit of Rabbi Eli'yohu Eli'ezer Dessler, author of Michtav Mei-Eli'yohu.

(In the second year of Deriyus, on the 24th day "of the eleventh month, which is Shevat," Zechariah prophecised [on his vision from the night before] Chapter I:7;12;16): (3404)

"Until when will You not have mercy upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Judah, which you have spurned,...saying, "Thus said Hashem, Master of Legions: I have returned to Jerusalem in mercy, My Temple will be rebuilt in it,... and a plumb line will be stretched out over Jerusalem." Fortunate are those who learn this prophecy today, (with commentary). How good is a thing in its' proper time.

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisro'el Lipkin of Salant, founder of the Mussar Movement (5643/1883)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yisrael (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Zeev V.) Lipkin, Salanter, founder of the "Mussar Movement," passes away. Zt"l. (buried in (Kenigsburg).

HaGaon HaRav HaTzadik Mordechai Pogramsky, of Lita, France, and Bnei Brak. passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Bnei Brak). (5710)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovid Halevi, author of the Turei Zohov (5427/1667)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi David (son of Rabbi Shmuel) HaLevy, author of "Turei Zahav,"HaTaz, of Ustrah, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Lebov). (5427)

HaKadosh Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Alter (son of HaGaon HaKadosh, Baal HaTacheilet) Leiner of Radzin passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Warsaw). (5689)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Shaul (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Elezar) Brach of Kashoi passed away.Zt"l. (5700)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yitzchak Buchnick of Gerba, author of "VaYomer Yitzchak" and "Banai Chai," passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5735)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yaakov (son of Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib) Landau, Rav of Bnei-Brak, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5746)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Efraim (son of Rabbi Ben Zion) Borodiansky passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaMenuchot). (5750)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch of Frankfurt am Mein.

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Alexander Sender (son of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Efraim Zalman), author of "T'vuot Shor" and "Shlaima Hadasha," of Zolkov passed away. Zt"l. (Buried there). (5497)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Emanuel (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yeshiyahu) of Pshadburez passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Warsaw). (5625)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Menachem Nachum (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Aharon of Tchernobyl passed away. Zt"l. (5631)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Mordechai Sulman, Rosh Yeshiva Slobodka, son-in-law of HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi Yitzchak Issac Sher, passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Zichron Meir). (5742)

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Ephraim Ezra Laniado, author of Degel Mechneh Ephraim; Yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovid Zindheim, author of Yad Dovid.

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Rabbi David Zinzheim of France, author of "Yad David," passed away. Zt"l. (5572)

HaRav HaTzadik Rabbi Menachem Nachum (son ofHaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yochanan) of Rachmastroika passed away. Zt"l. (Buried on Har HaZeitim). (5696)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Mordechai (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Gedalya Moshe) Admor of Zveil passed away. Zt"l. (Buried in Jerusalem). (5739)

In a tragic helicopter crash near Shaar Yishuv, Israel, 73 soldiers killed. Zichronam L'Bracha. (5757)

Birthdays of Reuven HaLevy, his best friend Eduardo Ziegler, Sara Rigler, and Ruthie Bacs.

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Noson Zvi Finkel the Alter ("old man") of Slabodka, on of the leaders of the Mussar Movement.

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Hananya Yom Tov Lipa (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yekutial Yehuda) Teitalbaum, author of "Kedushat Yom Tov," of Seagate. Zt"l. (Buried there). (5664)

HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Haim Meir (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Yitzchak) Finkler of Radushitz-Pintshov, author of "Imrei Haim" and "Minchat Yehuda," passed away. Zt"l. (5677--ezrat)

HaGaon Moreinu v'Rabeinu Natan Tzvi (son of Rabbi Moshe) Finkel, "The Saba of Slobodka," passed away. Zt"l. (5687)

Yartzeits in Adar in a leap year with two Adars: Sephardim have the custom to honor the yartzeit during the second Adar (as according to the Rambam). Ashkenazim honor the date in the first Adar. There are those who honor the day in both Adars.

HaRavHaKadosh Rabbi Shmuel Abba of Horodenka, (son of HaRav HaKadosh Rabbi Baruch of Vishnitz, author of "Imrei Baruch"), passed away. Zt"l. (5655)