Rav Meshulam Yissaschar Ashkenazi of Stamford Hill, London, the Stanislaver Rebbe (1995).
Rav Shilo Raphael, Av Bais Din of Yerushalayim

Today’s Yahrtzeits – 29 Cheshvan
Rav Yitzchak Eizik Chover, author of Responsa Binyan Olam and Si’ach Yitzchak. One of his talmidim, HaRav Yitzchak Kahane, wrote Toldos Yitzchak (1852)
Rav Avraham Abish Kanner, the Tchechover Rebbe of Haifa (1983)
Today in History – 29 Cheshvan
· Birth of Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, the Netziv of Volozhin, 1817.
· Battlebetween HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran off the coast of Australia. Both ships sank, resulting in the loss of 645 Australian and 77 German lives, 1941.
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Rabbeinu Yonah (ben Avraham) of Gerondi, France(1200 [or 1180]-1263). The Ramban’s mother and Rabbeinu Yonah’s father were siblings. Many years later, the Ramban’s son, Rav Shlomo, married the daughter of Rabbeinu Yonah. Thus, the two great rishonim were mechutanim as well as first cousins. He was a student of Rav Shlomo ben Avraham Min Ha’Har. When King Louis XIV of France, “Saint” Louis,” burnt all the copies of the Talmud in Paris in the Square of the Louvre, Rabbeinu Yonah, one of the Rambam’s main detractors, felt that the events in Paris were a sign that he and the other opponents of the Rambam were seriously wrong.

Rav Yaakov Leizer, the Pshevorsker Rebbe, also known as Reb Yankele of Antwerp (1907-1999). Born in the small village of Roig near Riminov in Galicia, he joined the yeshiva in the town of Dukla after his bar mitzvah. Among those who learned there were Reb Yekusiel Halberstam (the future Klausenberger Rebbe) and Reb Pinchos Hirshprung (the future Rav of Montreal). From Dukla, Reb Yankele moved on to Yeshivas Zera Kodesh in Koloshitz. Staying there from 1924 to 1939, Reb Yankele regarded the Koloshitzer Rav as his Rebbe and mentor. His first position was as Rav of Yashlisk, at the age of 24. After his marriage to the daughter of Reb Itzikel, the Rebbe of Pshevorsk in 1934, he lived in the shadow of his shver for the next forty years.

Rav Shlomo Segal, Av Beis Din Polna’ah and Lvov, he authored MiBeis Levi (1638)

Binyamin ben Yaakov Avinu, buried near Kfar Saba

Rav Aharon Katzenellenbogen of Brisk, author of Minchas Aharon (1854).
Rav Moshe Midner of Slonim-Baranowitz, a grandson of the Yesod Ha’avodah and a talmid of Rav Chaim Brisker Soloveitchik. He was mashgiach of Yeshivas Toras Chessed.
Rav Yehosef Rottenberg of Kosson (1912)
Today in History – 23 Cheshvan

· Stones of the Mizbeach defiled by the Greeks were removed from the Beis Hamikdash and a yom tov was established to mark the date, 164 BCE
· Edward I of England arrests 680 Jews for alleged counterfeiting and puts them on trial, 1278. The judges sentence 269 Jews to death by hanging, and Edward received 16,500 pounds sterling from the property of the executed Jews,

Rav Yissachar Dov Rokeach, the third Belzer rebbe (1854-1926)
Rav Moshe Lima, author of Chelkas Mechokek. Early
in the 17th century, he was hired by the city of
Slonim to be its first Rav. While there, he was considered the highest authority in halacha in all of Lithuania. He later served as Rav in Brisk and Vilna.
Rav Ezriel Halevi Horowitz, the “Eizener Kop” of Lublin. Opposed the Chozeh when the latter arrived in Lublin.

Rav Dovid ben Zimra, the Radbaz (1480-1573). Arriving in Tzefas as a child after the Spanish expulsion, he emigrated to Egypt in 1514. Shortly thereafter, he was recognized as chief rabbi of Egypt, apost he held for 40 years. His income, however, came through business, from which he became quite wealthy. Among his talmidim in Cairo were Rav Yitzchak Luiria (the Ari) and Rav Betazelel Azhkenazi, the Shita Mekubetzes. In 1553, he returned to Eretz Yisrael, settling in Tzefas.

Rav Avraham ben Yitzchak of Narbonne, author of Sefer HaEshkol, father-in-law of the the Raavad, Rav Avraham ben Dovid.
Rav Avraham ben Dovid (Ravad II) (1119-1198). R’ Avraham lived at the time of Rabbeinu Tam and is mentioned a few times in the Tosafos. He had the merit of having Eliyahu HaNavi appear to him, as claimed by Rabbi Chaim Vital in his introduction to Etz HaChaim. His son was the tzaddik Rabbi Yitzchak Sagi Nahor. According to Yated Neeman in 2005, he is the author of Sefer HaEshkol
Rav Shalom of Kaminka (1851)
Rav Yechezkel, the third Rebbe of Radmosk, known as the Kenesses Yechezkel of Radomsk (1864-1910)
Rav Moshe Lemberger, the Makava Rav of Kfar Ata (1982)