Also Klipa. Literally means ‘shell’/ ‘covering’. It’s a negative force that blocks the Light from being revealed.
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17th Av 8/7/2020
Rabbi Samson Wertheimer
Rabbi Samson Wertheimer was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and Shtadlan to Austrian Emperor Leopold I
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19th Av 8/9/2020
Rabbi Yaakov Culi
Rabbi Yaakov Culi (a.k.a. Kuli or Chuli) was a Talmudist and Biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . He belonged to an exiled Spanish family, and was the grandson and pupil of Moses ibn Habib
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20th Av 8/10/2020
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson
His oldest son is the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, ZT"L
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20th Av 8/10/2020
Rabbi Eliezer of Azipalia
Chassidic leader, son of the tzaddik Rabbi Yehuda Tzvi of Stretin.