Parasha: Vayigash
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29th Shevat 2/24/2020
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel was an influential leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe and founder of the Slabodka yeshiva, in the town of Vilijampolė. He is also known by the Yiddish appellation der Alter ("the Elder") and as the Alter of Slabodka
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1st Adar 2/26/2020
Rabbi Avraham ibn Ezra
Bible commentator, astrologer, translator from Arabic into Hebrew, grammarian, philosopher, poet.
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1st Adar 2/26/2020
Rabbi Shabbatai HaKohen
Rabbi Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen (Hebrew: שבתי בן מאיר הכהן; 1621–1662) was a noted 17th century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the Shakh (Hebrew: ש"ך), which is an abbreviation of his most important work, Siftei Kohen (Hebrew: שפתי כהן) (literally Lips of the Priest), and his rulings were considered authoritative by later halakhists
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2nd Adar 2/27/2020
Rabbi Yisrael (ben Avraham Mordechai) Alter
Yisrael Alter, (Polish: Izrael Alter, Hebrew: ישראל אלתר; October 1895 – 20 February 1977), also known as the Beis Yisroel after the works he authored, was the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1948 until 1977.