Rachel Imeinu
The mother who weeps for her children, and to whom Hashem promised that they will return to their land.
Learn a perek of Mishnayos, give tzedakah or light a candle l’iluy nishmaso. The kever: how to get there, candle lighting and Shabbos nearby
Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Rosh yeshiva of the Mir in Yerushalayim, who built it into one of the largest yeshivos in the world.
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Rabbi Nachum of Chernobyl
Author of the Meor Einayim, talmid of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid, founder of the Chernobyl dynasty.
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This week
The Chazon Ish, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz
Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach
Yahrzeits follow the Hebrew date, which begins at shkiah. Where a tzaddik died in Adar of a regular year, the yahrzeit is shown in both Adars of a leap year. Photographs are real photographs under free licenses; for the generations before photography we show the kever or the place, never an imagined portrait.