🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 24th Adar

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🗓️✨ Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 24th Adar

Today in Chabad History – 24th Adar[1]

🗓️ The Rebbe Rayatz leaves Riga in route to the United States[2]

On the 24th of Adar I, 5700, the Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (the Frierdiker Rebbe), departed from Riga on his journey to the United States.

On the 25th of Adar I, the Rebbe left the city of Riga by plane for Stockholm, Sweden.

On the same day, the 25th of Adar I, he departed from Stockholm by train to the city of Gothenburg, and from there he sailed to the United States.

📅 Today’s Yahrzeits[3]

 🕯️ Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa — Rav of Bnei Brak

Their Background[1]

🕯️ Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa
Chief Rabbi (Rav) of Bnei Brak

Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa was the longtime chief rabbi of Bnei Brak and one of the most respected halachic authorities of his generation. He served as Rav of the city for decades, following in the footsteps of his father, Rabbi Yaakov Landa, who had held the same position before him. He was widely regarded as a “rabbi’s rabbi”—a posek whose integrity, humility, and practical wisdom drew questions from rabbanim and institutions around the world. Beyond his communal leadership, he became internationally renowned for his uncompromising standards in kashrut supervision, which he famously provided without charging food manufacturers, in order to preserve complete independence and trust. A devoted Chabad chassid, Rabbi Landa navigated complex communal dynamics in a city with diverse ultra-Orthodox communities, yet remained a unifying moral authority. His guidance shaped religious life in Bnei Brak in areas ranging from marriage and mikvaot to eruvin and Shabbat observance. Rabbi Landa passed away in 2019 at the age of 84, leaving behind a large family of rabbanim and educators, as well as an enduring legacy of Torah leadership, personal integrity, and service to the ציבור.

Yehi zichro baruch.

[1] Please not that these historical notes were prepared with the assistance of Copilot Pro, an AI Research Agent, and have not been independently verified.

[1] Taken from Yimei Chabad

[2] Taken from Megilas Taanis and Tractate Taanis 23a and Yerushalmi 3:9

[3] Taken from Luach Itim Labina

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.