26 Shevat - 2 Adar, 5778 -- February 11 - February 17, 2018

26 Shevat

• Yahrzeit of Rav Dovid HaLevi (d. 1667) author of Torei Zahav one of the major commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch. Son in law of Rav Yoel Sirkis, the Bac"h.
• Yahrzeit of Rav Mordechai Yosef Elazar Leiner of Radzin (d. 1929), son of Rav Gershon Chanoch Henich of Radzin, author of Tifereth Yosef one of the important works of the Ishbitz-Radziner line.

27 Shevat

• Yahrzeit of Rav Alexander Sender Shor (d. 1737), author of Tevuos Shor an important work on Kosher meat preparation.

28 Shevat

• Yahrzeit of Rav Mordechai Goldman (d. 1979) Zhviller Rebbe.

29 Shevat

• Yahrzeit of Rav Yitzchok Yerucham Diskind (d. 1925), head of the Eida HaCharedis of Yerushalim.
• Yahrzeit of Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel (d. 1927), the Alter of Slabodka who was instrumental in relocating much of the Yeshiva to Israel, first to Chevron and then to Yerushalaim. He was the mentor to numerous Roshei Yeshiva who rebuilt Torah after the Holocaust.

30 Shevat

• This year there will be no 30 Adar (as in a year with only one Adar there are only 29 days). As such, boys who were born 13 years ago on the 30th of Adar I, celebrate their Bar Mitzvah's on this date.
• Yahrzeit of Rav Yeruchem Fishel Perlow (d. 1934) best known for his commentary on the Rav Saadia Gaon's listing of Mitzvos. A student of the Volozhin yeshiva, he refused jobs in the rabbinate and was a successful businessman while spending most of his time studying Torah. After being widowed he moved to Jerusalem where he spent his last years.

1 Adar

• When Adar begins we should increase our happiness
• In Temple times the court would send out emissaries to remind people to send their annual half-shekel to the Temple and to inspect that no one had inadvertently allowed illicit mixtures of crops to grow in the field.
• Yahrzeit of Rav Avrohom Ibn Ezra author of important pshat commentary on Chumash. He spent most of his life in poverty while traveling from country to country in medieval Europe.
• Yahrzeit of Rav Shabsi Kohen (d. 1662), better known as the Shach after his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch.
• Yahrzeit of Rav Immanuel Chai Riki (murdered in 1743) who authored major Kabbalistic works (Mishnas Chasidim) as well as other Torah commentary. He was murdered while travelling, his murderers were never found.

2 Adar

• Yahrzeit of Rav Meir Paprish (d. 1662) author of 39 important early works based on the teachings of the Ariza"l.
• The first use of the Davidka by the Israeli Army in the 1948 War of Independence 
• Yahrzeit of Rav Avrohom Kalmanowitz (d. 1964), Rav of Tiktin and later founder of the Mir Yeshiva of New York.