Yosef Hatzadik born and died on this date, son of Yaakov - Jacob ; see shechem.org for video and photos online of the new grave.

Reb Moshe Yisroel Najara, author of Lekach Tov

Reb Shneur Kotler, Rosh yeshiva of Lakewood

Reb Chaim Moshe Mandel, mekubal in Bnei Brak-5756

Reb Meir of Dzikov, author of Imrei Noam

Reb Zalman Sorotzkin, the Lutzker Rav and author of Oznaim L'Torah (1881-1966). Learned at Volozhin and Slabodka; married the daughter of Reb Eliezer Gordon, Rosh Yeshiva of Telz ,see www.famousrabbis.com / Reb Eliezer and moved to Telz to help run the yeshiva. Rov of Voronova at Age 30 for 2 years, befriending Reb Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, then served as Rov of Zhetel for 18 years. In 1914, he fled to Minsk and became a close friend of the Chazon Ish. Moved to Lutsk in 1930 as Rav, until WW II. Moved to Eretz Yisroel during the War. Led by Reb Aharon Kotler and the members of the Israeli Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, Chinuch Atzmai was formed in 1953. Reb Zalman Sorotzkin was chosen to head it. Further information see www.famousrabbis.com/ Rabbi Sorotzkin

Reb Yekusiel Halberstam, the Klausenberger Rebbe (1905-1994), great-grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz

Reb Aharon Moshe Toibish, av beis din of Jassy

Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz of Budapest , Hungary ( see here for photos of his grave)

Rabeinu Yaakov ben Asher, the Baal Haturim (1268-1340), son of the Rosh.

Reb Elchonon Bunim Wasserman, rosh yeshivas Baranovitz, author of Kovetz Shiurim (1875-1941). Born in the town of Birz, Lithuania to very poor parents. Learned at Telz at 15, lived and learned from Reb Chaim Soleveitchik for 2 years, 1897-99. Learned from the Chofetz Chaim 1907-10, becoming his closest disciple, then Went to Brisk to be Rosh Yeshiva. Became Rosh Yeshiva of Brananovich after WW1 in 1920 and grew it from 60 to 500 bachurim. see www.famousrabbis.com/Reb Elchonon Wasserman

Reb Moshe Rivkush, the author of Beer Hagolah

Sassover Rebbe , Rebbe Chanoch Henoch Dov Ben Elozer in London . Buried in Special Ohel in Edmonton Federation Cemetary. See www.famousrebbes.com , for history, photos and Torah from the Sassover Rebbe and see photos of Sassover Rebbes Ohel - Tomb in Edmonton cemetary .

Reb Aryeh Epstein, the author of HaPardes

Reb Yosef Trani, the Maharit (1568-1639). Born in Safed, married to a descendant of Reb Yosef Caro, but fled Safed due to plague outbreak. Returned to Safed to head a yeshiva in 1594. Moved to Constantinople in 1604, becoming Rabbi of the city and leader of Turkish Jewry a few years later. Best known for his teshuvos.

Reb Yaakov Halevi Ruderman, Rosh Yesiva of Ner Israel, Baltimore , Reb Yaakov Halevi Ruderman, (1901-1987) Rosh Yesiva of Ner Israel, Baltimore. Born on Shushan Purim in 1901 in Dolhinov, Russia; studied in Yeshivas Knesset Yisrael in Slobodka, then headed by Reb Nosson Zvi Finkel (the "Alter") and Reb Moshe Mordechai Epstein z"l. Among his colleagues in Slobodka were Reb Reuven Grozovsky; Reb Ruderman's first cousin, Reb Yaakov Kaminetsky; Reb Aharon Kotler; Reb Yitzchak Hutner; In about 1926, Reb Ruderman published his only written work, Avodas Halevi. In 1930, Reb Ruderman joined his father-in-law, Reb Kramer, at the latter's yeshiva in Cleveland. In 1933, Reb Ruderman moved to Baltimore and founded the Ner Israel yeshiva; he led that yeshiva for 54 years until his passing and built it into one of the largest yeshivos in America. His death in 1987 followed less than one-and-a-half years after the passing of Reb Yaakov Kaminetzky and Reb Moshe Feinstein. Posthumously, Reb Ruderman's students have published two volumes of his teachings: Sichos Levi contains mussar/ethical insights based on the weekly parashah, while Mas'as Levi contains lectures on the 19th century work Minchas Chinuch and other Tamudic and halachic insights.

Reb Aryeh Leib Ginsberg of Metz, Known as the Shaagas Aryeh 5545-1785 see Photo Gallery # 1 Metz, France, the old Jewish cemetary.

Chur, son of Kalev and Miriam

Reb Shimon Moshe Diskin (1932-1999), son of Reb Yoshua Zelig Diskin, rov of Periaslov (Ukraine) and Pardes Chana, and grandson of Reb Shimon Moshe Diskin. He learned at Ponevezh and the Kaminetz-Knesses Beis Yitzchok kollel. He served for 26 years as one of the roshei yeshiva of Yeshivas Kol Torah.

Reb Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel, the Kapischnitzer Rebbe - Born on the fourth of Iyar 5648 (1888), named after the Apta Rov, the Oheiv Yisroel, of whom he was a direct descendant. Succeeded his father, Reb Yitzchok Meir, the first Kapischnitzer Rebbe, on the first day of Rosh Hashana 5696 (1936), his father's petira. Only two years after Reb Avrohom Yehoshua became Rebbe, Yiddishe life was shattered by the German occupation of Vienna. The Rebbe was seized and forced to clean the streets to the amusement of the jeering Germans. On his arrival in America, the Rebbe settled in the Lower East Side of New York. The Rebbe was among the founding members of Chinuch Atzmai (semi-private religious school system in Israel), together with Reb Aharon Kotler . One of his most faithful followers was the Ponovezher Rov, Reb Yosef Kahaneman . Nifter in 1967.

Reb Aharon Bakst, rov of Shavel see www.famousrabbis.com / Reb Bakst

Reb Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, Ner Yisrael , (1923-1999). The Weinberg family is from the Slonimer chasidic dynasty, a Lithuanian chassidus. The approach and relationship of the Slonim chasidim to Torah has been similar to the classical Litvishe approach. The founder of the dynasty was Reb Avrohom ben Yitzchok Mattisyohu Weinberg, the author of Chessed L’Avraham. As a youth, Rav Weinberg studied in the Rabbenu Chaim Berlin yeshiva in New York City under Reb Yitzchok Hutner, a talmid of the Alter of Slobodke. Reb Weinberg married the only daughter of Rebv Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, the rosh yeshiva of Ner Yisroel of Baltimore and another talmid of the Alter. In 1964, Rav Ruderman sent him to Toronto, to preside as the rosh yeshiva of a branch that Ner Yisroel had established there several years earlier.Eight years later, when the yeshiva in Toronto decided to become independent, he returned to Baltimore. Shortly before the petirah of his father-in-law in 1987, Reb Weinberg was asked to preside as the rosh yeshiva of Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. He was a member of the Moetzes Roshei Hayeshivos of Torah Umesorah for many years, and was very active in expanding the projects of this important organization.

Reb Yaakov Yitzchok Spiegel (1937-2001), Rov of the Romanian shul Khal Shaarei Shomayim, son of Reb Moshe Menachem Spiegel, the Admor of Ostrov- Kalushin (formerly of Brownsville, later of the Lower East Side), and the grandson of Reb Naftali Aryeh Spiegel, the former Rov of Ostrov-Kalushin in Poland; a talmid muvhak of Reb Aharon Kotler, learning in Lakewood for over ten years.

Reb Yaakov Aryeh of Radzimin (1878)

Reb Yitzchak Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Ireland and later Palestine (1888-1959). His father, Reb Yoel Leib Herzog (1865-1933) was Chief Rabbi of Paris. From his birth in 5649 until his 16th birthday, Rav Yitzchak studied at the feet of his father. He was given smicha by Reb Yaakov Willowski (the Ridbaz, author of a crucial commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud). In 5676 he was named Chief Rabbi of Belfast, Ireland. Later he served in the same post in Dublin. In 5670, Rabbi Herzog became Chief Rabbi of all of Ireland. Following the passing of Rabbi Avrahom Yitzchak haCohen Kook in 5695, Rabbi Herzog was invited to become Eretz Yisrael’s second Ashkenazi chief rabbi. He served in that capacity from 1933 until his petira in 1959.

Reb Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, Rosh Yeshivas Mir (1967). Married daughter of Reb Eliyahu Boruch Kamai (rosh yeshiva of Mir) in 1903. Moved the yeshiva to Yerushalaim in 1944 until his petira.

Reb Avrohom Chaim Na'eh, posek; author of Shiurei Torah, Gesher Hachaim (1954)

Reb Chaim Shaul Karelitz (1912-2001), Av Beis Din of Badatz Sheeris Yisroel, Mashgiach Ruchni of Yeshivas Beis Meir and Talmud Torah Tashbar, nephew of the Chazon Ish, learned at Kosovo, Barnaovich (under Reb Elchanon Wasserman) and Kaimetz (under Reb Baruch Ber Leibowitz, and Lomza in Petach Tikva.

Reb Avrohom Yitzchok Bloch (1941), Telsher rosh yeshiva, brother of Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch and 2nd son of Rav Yosef Leib Bloch (1860-1929). Upon his fater’s petira, Rav Avrohom Yitzchok assumed the leadership of both the yeshiva and the city of Telshe, although he was not yet forty. The yeshiva's end in Europe began in the summer of 1940, when the Soviets, who had occupied Lithuania, ordered the yeshiva closed. The Nazis entered the city on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz of 1941. After three terrible weeks of torture, on 20 Tammuz the Nazis massacred the male population of the city, including the yeshiva's administration and student body. The women and children of Telshe were killed on 7 Elul.

Reb Betzalel Rakow (1927-2003), born in Frankfurt, Germany. His father, Reb Yom Tov Lipman, studied in Volozhin under Rav Isser Zalman of Slutsk. After Kritallnacht, his family left via Antwerp to England, in 1939. Reb Betzalel learned at Reb Moshe Schneider’s Toras Emes, Nightingale Road in Stamford Hill London E5, along with Reb Moshe Sternbuch and Reb Tuvia Weiss. By age 18, he became very close to Reb Elya Lopian and Dayan Yechezkel Abramski. He then joined the Gateshead Kollel, marrying three years later. In 1956, he became the rosh yeshiva of Etz Chaim in Montreaux, Switzerland, where he developed a close relationship with Reb Yechiel Weinberg and the Brisker Rav. In 1963, he became the Rov of Gateshead, where he remained until his petira. He is the author of Birkas Yom Tov.

Reb Moshe Cordovero (Remak), author of Tomer Devora and Pardes Rimonim (1570). Studied under the great kabbalists Reb Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz and Reb Yosef Karo. Reb Chaim Vital was among his greatest talmidim.

Reb Yitzchak Grodzinski of Vilna

Reb Yitzchak Kolitz (1922-2003). Born in Elita, Lithuania, to Reb Eliyahu David Nachman Kolitz, Rov of the town and a chavrusa of the Chazon Ish for many years. His father was niftar when he was 3 years old. After spening several years in the public school, Reb Yitzchak went to Slobodka when he was 10 years old. In 1935, he moved to Eretz Yisrael with his mother and older brother. At the age of 14, he met Reb Isser Zalman Meltzer, with whom he developed a close relationship for life. He learned at Chevron and became close to Reb Yechezkel Sarna. He married Gittel Tova, daughter of Reb Shimshon Auerback of Tiveria, a descendant of the Baal Shem Tov. After the 1948 war, he became amagid shiur in a yeshiva in Rechovot; during that time, he became an ben bayis of the Chazon Ish. In 1955, he was appointed a dayan in Tel Aviv, then Av Beis Din, then Chief Rabbi (following Reb Bezalel Zolti).

Reb Aharon Berachya of Modina, author of Maavar Yabok

Reb Nachman Bulman. His parents, Reb Meir and Ettel Bulman were Gerrer chasidim who had moved to the Lower East Side from Poland. Reb Meir had lost his first wife in childbirth and his second wife in a pogrom. He had also lost two children. Now in their 40s, the Bulmans beseeched the Imrei Emes of Ger for a brochoh for children. The result of that blessing was Nachman, who was born in New York. He attended Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchonon and then studied in its rabbinical program. He received semicha and a B.A. (in philosophy) from Yeshiva College. During the week, he learned in the Litvishe yeshiva way. On Shabbos and Yom Tov he absorbed the atmosphere of his parents' Polishe shteibel with a love of chassidus. For years, he was also a frequent visitor at the tishin of the Modzitzer Rebbe, Rav Shaul Yedidya Taub. In 1950, the young Reb Nachman married Shaindel Freund, his aiyshes chayil for 52 years. He found a position in the town of Danville, Virginia, a small Orthodox community which consisted of about 30 families. He held the position for 3 years. From 1953-1954, Rabbi Bulman served as mashgiach in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon. He was once again pulled to the world of rabbonus when he became rov in South Fallsburg, N.Y., in 1954. During this time, he founded the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY), together with Rabbis Weitman, Goodman, and Chait. His next position was as head of Adas Jeshurun synagogue in Newport News, Virginia, beginning in 1957. Rabbi Bulman then returned to his position as mashgiach in Yeshiva University from 1962-1963, and then worked for Torah Umesorah from 1963-1967. In 1967, he took his next rabbinical position as the rav of the Young Israel of Far Rockaway. During this time, he founded Sarah Schenirer High School and Seminary in 1968, and the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway (Yeshivas Derech Eison), and he taught in both places. (1925-2002). ( Please see www.famousrabbis.com/RavBulman )

Reb Moshe Teitelbaum, av beis din of Ujhely, Hungary (33 years), author of Yismach Moshe, founder of Satmar and Sighet dynasties, 1759-1841; direct descendent of the REMA; Rov and Av Beis Din of Shinova at 26yo; made a shiduch with his only daughter to a chasid of the Choseh of Lublin, and shortly thereafter became of follower himself; taught Reb Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova, the author of "Divrei Yechezkel." ( see here for photos of his grave )

Reb Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi), 1040-1105 . He traced his ancestry through the Tanna'im Reb Yochanan HaSandlar and Hillel the Elder back to King David. He received his early talmudic training from his father, Rabbi Yitzchak. At a young age he went to Worms, Germany, to broaden his knowledge under Reb Yaakov ben Yakar. At the age of 25 he returned to his native Troyes. Amazingly, Rashi accomplished all his work during the Period of the Crusades, when life was extremely dangerous for the Jews. Rashi had three daughters, who were great scholars in their own right, but also were married to men of greatness, and had children known as he "Baalei Tosafos," the most famous of whom, Reb Yaakov ben Meir, was known as Rabeinu Tam. see here for photos of Worms and the Beis Hamedrash Shul of Rashi in Worms .