Rabbi Moshe Rivkes – The Author of Be’er HaGolah
Rabbi Moshe Rivkes was the son of Rabbi Naphtali Hirsch Sofer of Vilna, a great Torah scholar, and was known as a gaon and a tzaddik. In 5415, when Cossack…
Rabbi Israel Hager – The Ahavat Israel of Viznitz
Rabbi Israel Hager was the son of the saintly Rabbi Baruch of Viznitz (may his merit protect us all), and a descendant of the Ahavat Shalom of Kossov, Rabbi Naphtali…
Rabbi Meir ben Gedaliah – The Av Beit Din of Lublin
Rabbi Meir of Lublin, known as the Maharam (“Our Teacher Rabbi Meir”), was among the greatest Poskim of his generation. Born to Rabbi Gedaliah of Lublin in the year 531
Rabbi Ephraim Navon – The Author of Machaneh Ephraim
The gaon Rabbi Ephraim Navon Zatzal was born in the city of Constantinople, where he and his friend of the same age, the gaon Yaakov Sasson, studied Torah with their…
Rabbi Menachem Zemba of Poland
The light of the gaon Rabbi Menachem Zemba Zatzal began to shine in 5644. Born in the Polish capital of Warsaw, he was known as a child prodigy from his…
Rabbi Shneur Zalman – The Torat Chesed of Lublin
The gaon Rabbi Shneur Zalman Zatzal, the author of the book Torat Chesed, was among the greatest men of Torah in his generation. He was born in the town of…
Rabbi Yosef Shaul Nathanson of Lvov – The Author of Shoel U’Meishiv
The gaon Rabbi Yosef Shaul Nathanson Zatzal was among the great figures of his generation and one of the outstanding Poskim of the last centuries. He could fully explain the…
Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – The Rosh Av Beit Din of Jerusalem
The gaon Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld Zatzal was born to the tzaddik Rabbi Avraham Shlomo in the Slovakian town of Worboy in 5609. At the age of four he lost…
Rabbi Nathan Tzvi Finkel – The Alter of Slabodka
The gaon Rabbi Nathan Tzvi Finkel Zatzal was born in the tiny Lithuanian town of Rasei in the year 5609. From his youth he was known as an illui (genius),…
Rabbi Chaim David Bernhard of Piotrkow – Rebbe and Physician
In his youth, Rabbi Chaim David Bernhard was very far from Judaism, living his life much like a Polish nobleman. In fact he was the personal physician of King Wilhelm…
