Tzadikim

Rabbi Shlomo Hacohen, the dean of the Vilna Rabbanim, served as a Rabbi for nearly 40 years. He was famous throughout the Diaspora for his commentary Cheshek Shlomo on the…

The Baal Shem Tov was sitting at the table with his disciples one Friday night, when all of a sudden he let out a loud laugh. After Shabbat he was…

Rabbi Shemuel Mohilever loved his people with all his heart and all his soul. Without taking his health or financial situation into consideration, he placed himself entirely at the

The 5th of Shevat 5652 (1892) was a sad and bitter day, a day when the holy yeshiva of Volozhin was closed and its doors sealed shut by the government.…

Rabbi David Tronk was a simple, G-d fearing man and a skillful teacher who carried out his work to perfection. Rabbi Zalman Posner, a wealthy man and Torah scholar, offered…

Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik was truly one of the greatest and most amazing personalities that Lithuanian Jewry has given to the Jewish people. Stories concerning this Tzaddik and

Our Sages of blessed memory have said, “The Rishonim are called sofrim because they counted all the letters of the Torah” (Kiddushin 30a). Because they loved and cherished the writ

Rabbi Matityahu Strashun was granted all the innate talents that a person could dream off. He had an extraordinary memory and did not know what it means to forget. His…

There are some Jewish families that have become a dwelling place for the Torah, families amongst whom the Torah continually abides. One such case is the Sofer family, a dynasty…

Many previously unfamiliar cities are famous today because of the Rabbis, Gaonim, and Tzaddikim that lived in them, yet Horodno (Grodno) is the only city to have become famous beca