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28th Shevat 2/23/2020
Rabbi Nissim Peretz
Rabbi Nissim Peretz a Kabbalist founded the Beis El congregration in Bnei Brak, including a Beis Midrash and synagogue, a yeshiva ketana called Mesilas Yesharim Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, a Talmud Torah called Toras Yeshayahu, a kollel avreichim for intensive study in halacha, a midnight kollel in which elite and scholarly avreichim would illuminate the hidden Torah from midnight until sunrise.
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28th Shevat 2/23/2020
Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain
Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain (14 October 1838 – 7 February 1910), also spelled Avraham Borenstein or Bernstein, was a leading posek in late-nineteenth-century Europe and founder and first Rebbe of the Sochatchover Hasidic dynasty. He is known as the Avnei Nezer ("Stones of the Crown") after the title of his posthumously-published set of Torah responsa, which is widely acknowledged as a halakhic classic.
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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.