Shabbos 7th June 2008 - 4th Sivan 5768 - 48th day of Omer

Reb Avrohom Wolf of Wolf's Seminary in Bnei Brak

The Dinover Rebbe, Reb Yishai Naftoli Hertz who was the son of Reb Dovid - the Dinover Rebbe author of the Tzemach Dovid; Reb Yishai Naftoli Hertz succeeded his father as Av Beis Din of Dinov and died in 5645 (1885); he is buried in Dinov, south east Poland and the Ohel Tomb is preserved even today, as in photo above taken on yarzheit on Monday afternoon 21st May 2007, on the left is the Ohel Tomb at the top of hill in Dinov Poland.

Sunday 8th June - 5th Sivan - 49th day of Omer

Reb Chaim Yaakov Safran, Kamorna Admor

Reb Ze'ev Wolf of Zhitomer, the Ohr Hame'ir (1797)

Monday 9th June - 6th Sivan - 1st Day of Shavuos

King David - Dovid Hamelech (2924 [837 BCE] - King David

Reb Yisroel ben Eliezer, Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760) See www.famousrabbis.com ,

Reb Avrohom Mordechai Alter, the Imrei Emes of Ger, 1948., Rav Avrohom Mordechai Alter, the Imrei Emes of Ger, (1866-1948). Son of Rav Yehudah Leib (Sefas Emes) and great-grandson of the Chidushei Harim.

Reb Yehuda Rosner, the Imrei Yehuda (1944). Reb Rosner opened a yeshiva in Szekelheid, which he headed throughout his years there. Although he was offered rabbinical positions in larger towns, he refused them on account of his yeshiva. Szekelheid had only 120 Jewish families, and that allowed the Reb to dedicate most of his time and attention to the yeshiva, which ultimately grew until, in the 1930's, it housed over 300 bachurim

Stropkover Rebbe - Rabbi Avrohom Sholom Halberstam 5700 , Author of Divrei Sholom , Kashau ( Kosice ) Slovakia , son of Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shiniva whose yarzheit is 6 Teves 5659, Shiniva Poland .

Tuesday 10th June - 7th Sivan - 2nd Day of Shavuos

The Prophet, Hoshea ben Beeri

Avrohom ben Avrohom, the Ger Tzedeck Graf Potozki killed al kiddush Hashem in Vilna

Reb Zelig Reuvain Bengis, author of Liflugos Reuvain, av beis din Yerushalayim see www.famousrabbis.com/Bengis

Reb Shmuel Ehrenfeld of Mattersdorf

Wednesday 11th June - 8th Sivan

Reb Moshe Blau, Agudas Yisroel activist , and a 6th generation of the Old Yishuv. He was the editor of Agudah's local weekly, Kol Yisroel, and was the brother of Reb Amram Blau of Neturei Karta. From 1933-1945, Reb Blau headed the chareidi community in Jerusalem, working with Yishuv leaders in its dealings with the British Mandate authorities. He died while rescuing Jewish survivors. In 1946, Rabbi Moshe Blau suddenly died in a very dramatic way, at the age of 61: He was on a boat on his way to Europe and the U.S. and died on the Mediterranean island of Messina, where he had been taken off the boat in an effort to perform an emergency operation. His body was flown to Eretz Israel. (1885-1946)

Reb Yissachor Dov Goldstein, head of Kolel Shomrei Hachomos, author of the Likutei He'aros on the Teshuvos Chasam Sofer (1988)

Reb Menachem Manish Safrin, the Komarna Rebbe of Bnei Brak (1990)

Reb Yisroel Mishklov, author of Pe'as Hashulchan, who led the aliya of the talmidim of the Vilna Gaon (1839)

Thursday 12th June - 9th Sivan

Reb Yaakov Chaim Sofer, author of Kaf Hachaim, see www.famousrabbis.com/ Kaf Hachaim , (1870-1939). Born in Baghdad and studied there under great Sephardi sages such as the Ben Ish Chai and Reb Abdalah Somech. In 1904, he embarked on the long and arduous journey to Eretz Yisroel, in order to pray at the graves of tzaddikim. After visiting Yerushalayim, he decided to settle there permanently. Once in Yerushalayim, he began to study in the kabbalistic Beis Kel yeshiva in the Old City. This yeshiva, founded by Rav Gedalya Chayon, attracted many of the city's great kabbalistic sages, among them the Rashash, who eventually became its rosh yeshiva. In 1909, Reb Yaakov Chaim transferred to the newly founded Shoshanim leDavid yeshiva, located in the Beis Yisrael section of Yerushalayim. In addition to the Kaf Hachaim, he authored Kol Yaakov (on the laws of writing sifrei Torah, tefillin, and mezuzos, as well as various kavanos required for the writing and the donning of tefillin), Yagel Yaakov (a compendium of the Shabbos drashos he delivered while he was in aveilus for his father),and Yismach Yisrael (other chiddushim on the parsha).

Reb Moshe Rivkes, author of Beer Hagolah on Shulchan Aruch, 1672 , . He was one of four great tzadikim of Vilna who lived at the tragic time of the massacres at the hands of the Cossacks in 1655, along with Rav Ephraim (the ShaarEphraim), Rav Shabbsai Cohen (the Shach), and Rav Shmuel Koidenaver. Approximately 25,000 Jews were killed in and around Vilna.

Reb Yitzchak Eizik of Ziditchov (1873)

Friday 13th June - 10th Sivan

Reb Yitzchak Alfasi, the RIF

Reb Ezra Harari Raful, mekubal of the Aleppo community

Reb Eliezer Rokach of Amsterdam, the Maaseh Rokach

Sassover Rebbe, Rabbi Simcha Rubin, died London 5763-2003. Buried at the Federation Cemetary Edmonton in the Ohel with his father the previous Sassover Rebbe Reb Hanoch Henoch Dov Rubin. Photos of Sassover Rebbe. Photo below is the Ohel of Sassover Rebbes in Edmonton Montagu Rd Cemetary London.

"Famous Rabbis Yarzheits for Sivan"