📅Luach Hayom – Today in Halacha & Jewish History: 9th Nissan

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📅 Today’s Yahrzeits

🕯️ Rabbi Yosef Yuzpa ben Rabbi Zelikman Hahn of Nördlingen — author of Yosef Ometz,

🕯️ Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi ben Rabbi Naftali Yelish — author of Melo HaRo’im

🕯️ Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Rabbi Binyamin Beinosh Levin

🕯️ Rabbi Chaim Meir, son of the holy Rabbi Yisrael of Vizhnitz, author of Imrei Chaim

 

👤Their Background[1]

🕯️ Rabbi Yosef Yuzpa ben Rabbi Zelikman Hahn of Nördlingen (d. 5397 / 1637) — author of Yosef Ometz

Rabbi Yosef Yuzpa Hahn was one of the leading Ashkenazic rabbanim and communal leaders of early‑modern Germany. He served the Jewish community of Nördlingen and is especially remembered for his ethical–halachic work Yosef Ometz, which records minhagim, moral guidance, and communal norms of Ashkenazic Jewry after the upheavals of the 16th century. His writings provide a rare and invaluable window into Jewish life, faith, and resilience in a difficult era marked by expulsions and instability.

 

🕯️ Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi ben Rabbi Naftali Yelish of Reisha (d. 5505 / 1745) — author of Melo HaRo’im

Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Yelish was a prominent halachic authority in Eastern Europe, serving in Reisha (Rzeszów). His work Melo HaRo’im is a comprehensive halachic compendium, widely cited by later poskim for its clarity and breadth. He belonged to the transitional generation just before the rise of Hasidism, representing the classical rabbinic scholarship of Polish Jewry.

 

🕯️ Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Rabbi Binyamin Beinosh Levin of Jerusalem (d. 5729 / 1969)
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Levin was a revered Jerusalem tzaddik, known for his humility, yirat shamayim, and quiet righteousness. He lived a life of simplicity and spiritual integrity, earning deep respect among the sages of Jerusalem. Before his passing, he requested that no rabbinic enactments or suspensions be made for his funeral, reflecting his lifelong avoidance of honor. He passed away on a day traditionally regarded as one on which Torah scholars limit public activity, in accordance with his wish, and was buried in Sanhedria.

 

🕯️ Rabbi Chaim Meir ben Rabbi Yisrael of Vizhnitz (d. 5732 / 1972) — son of the author of Imrei Chaim

Rabbi Chaim Meir was a Hasidic leader of the Vizhnitz dynasty, deeply connected to the legacy of his father, Rabbi Yisrael of Vizhnitz, author of Imrei Chaim. He embodied the Vizhnitz path of warmth, compassion, and devotion to avodat Hashem, and served as a spiritual anchor for his chassidim in the post‑Holocaust period. His life and character are recorded in Meir HaChaim, which preserves both biographical material and teachings connected to his leadership.

[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.

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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.