This Date In The History of Yiddishkeit

This Date In The History of Yiddishkeit

30th Nisan
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yosef Migash (the Ri Migash); talmid of the Rif (4901/1141)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Chain Vital; talmid of the Ari Hakodesh (5380/1620)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yaakov Emden (5536/1776)

1 Iyar
    Event: Tzelofechad caught gathering wood on Shabbos (2449/1312 b.c.e.)
    --Numbers 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath
         day. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.
      --Numbers 26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of
         Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
    Event: HaShem orders Moshe to take a census of the B'nei Yisrael (2450/1311 b.c.e.)
    Event: Shlomo HaMelech begins the construction of the First Bais HaMikdash (2929/832 b.c.e.)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yaakov Bei Rav (known for renewing semicha in Eretz Yisrael (5306/1546)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Shmuel Shmelke of Nicholsburg (5538/1778)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (5548/1788)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Akiva Yosef Shlesinger (the Lev Ha'ivri) (5682/1922)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Avraham of Slonim (the Beis Avraham) (5693/1933)

2 Iyar
Event: British army liberates Bergen-Belsen and free 40,000 prisoners (5705/1945)

3 Iyar
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Aryeh Leib Tzintz of Plotzk (5593/1833)
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yeshaya Kerestirer (5685/1925)

4 Iyar
    Event: The Rambam & family leave North Africa for Eretz Yisroel (4925/1165)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik of Brisk; Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin;
                     author of Beis Halevi (5652/1892)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav: HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu of Modzhitz (5744/1984)

5 Iyar
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yeshaya Pik (5559/1799)

6 Iyar
    Event: British Mandate over Eretz Yisroel begins its 28 year reign (5680/1920)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Levi ben Gershom (the Ralbag) (5104/1344)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yosef Meit of Spinka (the Imrei Yosef) (5669/1909)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yaakov Chaim Perlow of Stolin (5706/1946)

7 Iyar
    Event: The walls around Yerushalayim -- built by the Navi Nechenia -- and dedicated in 443 b.c.e., are surrendered to
    the Romans some 500 years later, on this date
    Event: The Rindfleisch Massacre of thousands of Yidden, began at Rottenberg on this date, eventually spreading across
    Germany and destroying over 150 Jewish communities (5058/1298)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Shlomo Efraim of Luntshitz (the Kli Yakar) (5379/1619)

8 Iyar
    Event: Yidden of Speyer were massacred during the First Crusade (4856/1096)
    Event: The first ghetto for nYidden was established in Venice (5276/1516)
    Event: Massive, anti-Jewish riots inLemberg (5427/1667)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yerachmiel of Pechischa (5591/1831)

9 Iyar
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Moshe Hager, Rosh Yeshiva of Seret-Vizhnitz, Chaifa, Eretz Yisroel (5759/1999)

10 Iyar
    Event: The Philistines captured the aron hakodesh; they killed Chofni and Pinchas, sons of Eli the Kohen Gadol , who
    died upon hearing the news: (I Shmuel, perek 4)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yitzchak Alfasi (the Rif) (4864/1104)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yosef Teumim (the Pri Megadim) (5552/1792)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yitzchak Aizek of Komarna (5634/1874)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav David of Tolna (5651/1891)

11 Iyar
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Naftali of Ropshitz (5587/1827)
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yitchak of Radwikll, son of the Zlototchover Maggid (5592/1832)

12 Iyar

13 Iyar

14 Iyar
    Event: Pesach Sheni (Shemos ##:##)
    Event: Adolf Eichmann, one of the key implementers of the "Final Solution", was captured in Buenos Aires (1960)
    Yahrtzeit: the Tanna Rabbi Meir, aka: Rabbis Meir Ba'al Haness (3881/121)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Eliyahu Chaim Meisel of Lodz (5672/1912)

15 Iyar
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Nesaniel Weill, author of "Korban Nesanel" (5529/1769)
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Chaim Meir Yechiel of Moglanitza (5609/1849)

16 Iyar
    Event: the B'nei Yisroel receive manna for the first time; Moshe Rabbeinu introduced the first b'racha of the Birkas
    HaMazon. (Shemos #:##)
    Event: Liberation of the Dachau concentration camp (5705/1945)
    Yahrtzeit: the Maharam of Lublin (5370/1610)
    Event: Eli Cohen, a spy for Israel, was hanged by the Syrians in Damascus; his remains are not returned to his family.
    (5725/1965)

17 Iyar
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yechezkel Landau of Prague, author of "Teshuvos Noda BiYehuda" and "Tzlach" (5553/1793)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Moshe Chaim Efraim of Sidlikov (the Degel Machaneh Efraim) (5560/1800)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Mordechai of Rachmistrivka (5680/1920)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Pinchas of Ostila (5703/1943)

18 Iyar
    Event: Lag B'Omer
    Yahrtzeit: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Moshe Isserles (the Rema) (5332/1572)
    Event: Invading Arabs blew up the Churva shul in the Old City of Yerushaliym (5708/1948)

19 Iyar
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Meir (the Maharam of Rottenberg) (5053/1293)
Yahrtzeit: HaRav Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (5575/1815)

20 Iyar
    Event: the B'nei Yisroel left the region of Chorev (within which is Mount Sinai), after having spent close to a year there
    (2450/1311 b.c.e.)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Mordechai of Chernobyl (5598/1838)
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav Yosef Valtuch (the Tzaddik Nistar) (5598/1838)

21 Iyar

22 Iyar
    Event:
    Yahrtzeit: HaRav
    --to be continued....