Cheshvan 16
- Yahrzeit of Rav Leizer Shach. Fiery personality who led the Ponovezh Yeshiva for many years. At the same time he was a very caring person who went out of the way to help the unfortunate. Was orphaned during the First World War.
Cheshvan 17
- The Deluge of Noach begins
- Hebrew anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
Cheshvan 18
- Yahrzeit of Rav Nachum Partzovich, one of the Roshei Yeshiva of Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Know as a very great lamdan.
Cheshvan 19
- In 1907 Rav Yisroel Meir HaCohen completed his magnus opus, the Mishna Berura, which immediately became the standard Halachic work on Orach Chaim, and has been widely imitated by Halachic writers since.
- First Yahrzeit of Rav BenZion Shenker, popularizer of many tunes authored by the Rebbes of the Modzitz dynasty.
Cheshvan 21
- The Rebbe of Boston leads his Chassidim to Chevron to commemorate the purchase of the Meoras Hamachpela in the week's Torah portion.
- Yahrzeit of the Radvz who passed away in 1575. I have often felt that he is under-appreciated as one of the great Torah scholars of history. Besides his works on Halacha and Kabbala, as well as some Talmudic insights that we have for him, his greatest contribution may have been as one of the teachers of both the Ariza"l and Rav Betzalel Ashkenazi who each placed an indelible stamp on Judaism until today.
Cheshvan 22
- Yahrzeit of the author of the Chelkas Mechokek, one of two primary commentators on Even HoEzer, the portion of Shulchan Aruch which deals with marital law.
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