Tzadikim

Considering Teshuvah as the Koshering of Body and Soul Let us begin with the following excerpt from sichot (accounts of) Teshuvah: Teshuvah resembles the preparations of Shabbat. F

Three times a day we pray in the Shemoneh Esrei for G-d’s mercy to be “upon the righteous, upon the pious, upon the elders of Your people, the House of…

Rabbi Meir Horowitz Zatzal was the son of Rabbi Eliezer Zatzal, the Dzikover Rebbe, who was the son of the holy Rabbi Naphtali of Ropshitz. In his youth, Rabbi Meir…

Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, the author of the Torah commentary Maor VaShemesh, was among the greatest Rebbes that Chassidut has known. The main disciple of the holy Rabbi Elime

Rabbi Berish Landau Zatzal was born in 5580 to Rabbi Avraham Zatzal, the Rebbe of Ciechanow. He was eventually drawn to the Chassidut of Rabbi Yitzchak of Vorki, even becoming…

The gaon Rabbi Chaim was born on Sivan 8, 5509 in the small town of Volozhin. The son of Rabbi Yitzchak, a well-respected and wealthy man, Rabbi Chaim became the…

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 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 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

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…