Mar Cheshvan is the eighth month in the Hebrew Calendar.
Rosh Chodesh – Aspect of Keter
from 2nd of the month to the 8th – aspect of Chokmah
9th to 15th – Binah
16th to 22nd – Zeir Anpin
23rd to End of Month – Malchut

Days of the week and related energy levels
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Chessed Gevurah Tiferet Netzach Hod Yessod Malchut
בלע יובב חושם הדד בן בדד שמלה שאול בעל חנן

 

Names  
Verse (Deuteronomy 26:15,16)
Sequence from 42 letters name (Ana B’Choach)    
Sefira level Cheshvan (male, Gevurah), Chokmah (year 5781) of Yessod (decade) of Hod (Century) of Yessod (Millennia)
Zodiac Sign

Scorpio – נ

Letter of the month

 ד

Planet Mars – מאדים
Tribe Naftali – נפתלי
Priestly stone Turquoise – שבו

 

Tzadikim for this month

Day

Tzadik

1

Rabbi Yosef Engel

 Head of the Bais Din in Cracow. A genius who was fluent in all avenues of Torah including Kabbalah and Chassidus

2

Rabbi Baruch Hager

Established a Talmud Torah, a Beis Yaakov school and worked extensively for Agudas Yisrael.

2

Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina

Rabbi Samuel ben Moses de Medina (abbreviated RaShDaM, Hebrew: רשד”ם or Maharashdam; 1505 – October 12, 1589), was a Talmudist and author from Thessaloniki.

3

Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant

Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant  (also known as Zundel Salant) was an Ashkenazi rabbi and the primary teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

3

Rabbi Israel (Yisrael) Friedman of Ruzhin

Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn (Hebrew: ישראל פרידמן מרוז’ין‎) (5 October 1796 – 9 October 1850), also called Israel Ruzhin, was a Hasidic rebbe in 19th-century Ukraine and Austria

3

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a Talmudic scholar, an authority on Jewish religious law (halakha), and longtime spiritual leader. Born in Iraq, he was the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983. Yosef’s responsa (religious law rulings) were highly regarded within Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, among whom he was regarded as “the most important living halakhic authority.”

4

Rabbi Avrohom Elyashiv

Rabbi Avrohom Elyashiv (c. 1877–1942) was the Av Beis Din of the city of Gomel (Homel)

4

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.

5

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.

5

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.

7

Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapiro

Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapiro  was a prominent Polish Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, also known as the Lubliner Rav. Shapiro was considered a gaon (Torah genius) in his lifetime. He studied Torah extensively and was a great scholar even by the high standards of the era he lived in.

 

 

9

Rabbi Shimon Yehuda Shkop

Rabbi Shimon Yehuda Shkop (Hebrew: שמעון שקופ‎; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was a rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe (Telšiai) and then of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno, and a renowned Talmid Chacham (Talmudic scholar). He has created a unique way in classic Eastern European erudition, which is expressed mainly in his book Sha’arei Yosher, and is characterized by a logical-legal analysis of the basic principles of Halakha, and less than local pilpul.

9

Rabbi Asher Ben Yechiel

Halachist, Talmudist

10

Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld

Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld (1881–1965) was the Chief Rabbi of Tshebin (Trzebinia), Poland, and after World War II spent his final years in Jerusalem. His principal work of Jewish law is titled “Dovev Meisharim

10

Gad ben Yaakov Avinu

Gad was the Son of Jacob the Patriarch and Zilpa the handmaid of Leah. He is one of the 12 Tribes.

11

Rachel Imenu

Rachel Imenu’s day of passing is the 11th of Cheshvan, which has been established as Jewish Mother’s Day

11

Rabbi Yosef Alcobi

Rabbi Yosef Alcobi (1838 – 11 of Heshvan 5740, 1940) was a well-known Mekubal, Posek, and Head of a yeshiva in Morocco. 

11

Metushelach ben Chanoch

Metushelach was the grandfather of Noach.He lived for 969 years.

11

Binyamin ben Yaakov Avinu

Binyamin (Benjamin) was the Son of Jacob the Patriarch and Rachel the Matriarch. He is the founder of one of the 12 Tribes.

11

Rabbi Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl

Chassidic leader, student of the Baal Shem Tov, Kabbalist.

12

Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf Kitzes

Student of the Baal Shem Tov

13

Rebbi Eliyahu Yosef Rabinowitz

Rebbi Eliyahu Yosef Rabinowitz refuses to called the Admor, so humble he was

Came with solution for the “Agunot”

15

All the Tzadikim

15

Rabbi Chaim Pinto Hakatan

Kabbalist , was renown for his modesty and gift of prophesy

15

Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz

Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), known by the name of his magnum opus, Chazon Ish, was a Belarusian born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel

15

Matityahu Kohen Gadol – Hasmonai

Leader of the Jewish revolt against the Greeks, during the Second Templ era. A main figure in the Chanukah holiday.

15

Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz

Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (7 November 1878 – 24 October 1953), known by the name of his magnum opus, Chazon Ish, was a Belarusian born Orthodox rabbi who later became one of the leaders of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where he spent his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953.

16

Rabbi Elazar Shach

Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach (Hebrew: אלעזר מנחם מן שך‎) Elazar Shach (January 1, 1899 O.S. – November 2, 2001) was a leading Lithuanian-Jewish Haredi rabbi in Bnei Brak, Israel

16

Rabbi Amram Chisda (The Pious)

Rav Chisda (Hebrew: רב חסדא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Kafri, Babylonia, near what is now the city of Najaf, Iraq. He was an amora of the third generation (died in ca 320 CE at the age of ninety-two), mentioned frequently in the Talmud.

16

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (Hebrew: שלמה קרליבך), known as Reb Shlomo to his followers, was a singer, rabbi, and spiritual leader.

18

Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser

Rabbi Yisroel Dov Ber Odesser , also known as Reb Odesser or Sabba (“grandfather” in Hebrew), was a Breslover Hasid and rabbi who claimed to have received a “Letter From Heaven” sent directly to him by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

20

Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi

Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi was A famous Yemenite Kabbalist who founded the Yeshiva “Nahar Shalom” in Nachlaot / Jerusalem.  

20

Rabbi Avraham ben David

Talmudist and Kabbalist.

22

Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach

Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach (1854 – 29 October 1926) was the third Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty. He was the second son of Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach (the second Rebbe of Belz), and served as the third Belzer Rebbe from his father’s death in 1894 until his own death in 1927

23

Rabbi Refael Yosef Chazan

Rabbi Yosef Raphael Hazan was a halachic preacher, one of the greatest sages of Izmir, Hebron and Jerusalem, who served as Rishon Letzion after immigrating to Israel.

24

Rabbi Gedalie Moishe Goldman

Ose Yeshuot

Monday-Thursday-monday  The one who needs yeshuot, will come to his grave 3 times om Monday, Thursday and the next Monday, and the Yeshua will come.

24

Rabbi Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai

Rabbi Abraham ben Mordecai Azulai (c. 1570–1643) (Hebrew: אברהם בן מרדכי אזולאי) was a Kabbalistic author and commentator born in Fez, Morocco. In 1599 he moved to Palestine and settled in Hebron

28

Rabbi Ohr Shraga

A humble kabbalists, dedicated his life to help others. Miracle worker.

28

Rabbi Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi

Rabbi Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi (יוֹנָה בֶּן־אַבְרָהָם גִירוֹנְדִי‎ Yōnāh bēn-ʾAvrāhām Gīrōndī, “Jonah son of Abraham the Gironan”; died 1264),also known as Jonah of Girona and Rabbeinu Yonah (רבינו יונה‎), was a Catalan rabbi and moralist, cousin of Nahmanides. He is most famous for his ethical work The Gates of Repentance

28

Rabbi Yonah of Gerona

Popularly known as Rabbeinu Yonah. Ethicist, author of Shaarei Teshuvah.

30

Rabbi Isaac Eizik Chaver

Kabbalist