In Aramaic ‘סטרא אחרא’, ‘Sitra Achra’, the ‘Other-side’, the impure system, opposite of holiness, everything that is negative and drains the Light we earned or wish to receive.
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4th Heshvan 10/22/2020
Judah he-Hasid Segal ha-Levi
Rabbi Judah he-Hasid Segal ha-Levi (Hebrew: יהודה החסיד Yehudah he-Hasid, "Judah the Pious"; c. 1660 in Siedlce – October 17, 1700 in Jerusalem, Ottoman Syria) was a Jewish preacher who led the largest organized group of Jewish immigrants to the Land of Israel in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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4th Heshvan 10/22/2020
Rabbi Avrohom Elyashiv
Rabbi Avrohom Elyashiv (c. 1877–1942) was the Av Beis Din of the city of Gomel (Homel)
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5th Heshvan 10/23/2020
Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira was the Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland, who authored a number of works and was murdered by the Nazis during the Shoah.
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5th Heshvan 10/23/2020
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch was born on Sivan 4, 5555 (1795) in the town of Lissa, Germany, in the province of Posen. In his youth he studied Torah with great Gaonim, Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa (author of Chavot Da’at), and Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Posen. He was noted for his extraordinary gifts and incredible diligence in study.