Also Klipa. Literally means ‘shell’/ ‘covering’. It’s a negative force that blocks the Light from being revealed.
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5th Shevat 1/18/2021
Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter of Ger
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847--1905), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes, was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger), and succeeded the Rebbe, Reb Heynekh of Alexander, as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim. Chassidic leader Kabbalist and talmudist.
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6th Shevat 1/19/2021
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, (December 28, 1879 – January 21, 1926), (6 shevat 5686 on the Hebrew calendar), the Sigheter Rebbe, author of Atzei Chaim, was the oldest son of Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum the Kedushas Yom Tov. He was the elder brother of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum and father of Moshe Teitelbaum, both rebbes of Satmar
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7th Shevat 1/20/2021
Rabbi Nathan David Rabinowitz
Kabbalist, a gaon in Torah and famous in his time with a clear understanding of the hidden Torah
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7th Shevat 1/20/2021
Rabbi David of Lelov
Chassidic leader, student of the Chozeh of Lublin.