Rabbi Shimon Shalom Kalish • “The Rebbe of Amshinov”
The chassidim recount that after the death of Rabbi Yitzchak of Kalish (the founder of the line of Rebbes of Vorki and Amshinov), his son Rabbi Yaakov David went from…
Rabbi Aryeh Levine • “The Tzaddik of Jerusalem”
On the eve of Shabbat Hagadol, Nissan 10, 5729 (1969), Rav Aryeh Levine rendered his soul to his Creator. Following his casket were thousands of people, among them Rabbis and…
Rabbi Aaron Rokeach • “The Rebbe of Belz”
Who is not familiar with the name of Belz? Who has not heard the well-known melancholy niggun Mien Shtetele Belz? This small city was made famous around the world because…
Rabbi Ben Zion Yadler • “The Maggid of Jerusalem”
All the days of the life of the Tzaddik Rabbi Ben Zion Yadler were devoted to Torah and the fear of G-d. His voice was heard in the cities of…
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
A Rosh Yeshiva in America recounted that he once addressed one of the great men of Mussar, the famous Mashgiach of the yeshiva world of Poland and Lithuania, to ask…
Rabbi Ben Zion Alfes • “The Author of Maase Alfes”
When I look back upon the scenes of my childhood, the image of Rabbi Ben Zion Alfes comes alive before me. He was an elderly man, bent over, with eyes…
Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer Alfandri
Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer was one of the great sages of Sephardic Judaism. All the greats of the land came to see him – Ashkenaz Rabbis and Rebbes, as well as…
Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim • “The Aderet”
Rabbi Eliyahu David and his brother, Rabbi Tzvi Yehudah, were twins (teomim) born to the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Binyamin on Sivan 6, 5603 (1843) in the tiny city of…
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin • “The Rav of Brisk”
At the gates of the old city of Jerusalem, lying on the side of a beautiful hill, stands a great and imposing building that shelters orphans. This house is known…
Rabbi Avraham Shaag • “The Rav of Kobelsdorf”
Three shepherds of Israel have placed Jerusalem at the head of their concerns. They always dreamed of returning to Zion, and they impatiently awaited the day when they could settle
