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Rav Ovadia Bartenura (1445 [or 1450]-1500 [or
1520]). He lived in Italy in the second half of the 15th century and eventually
moved to Yerushalayim. He was well known for his role as a Rav in
Bartinura, Italy, and for his illuminating Pirush on the Mishnah. He also wrote
Omer Nekeh, a supercommentary on Rashi’s peirush on Chumash. Considered one of
the wealthiest mean in all of Italy, he settled in Yerushalayim in 1488.
Rav Yisrael (ben Baruch) Hager of Vizhnitz, the
Ahavas Yisrael (1860-1936). The grandson of Rav Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz
(the Tzemach Tzedek), he succeeded his father, the Imrei Baruch, as Admor of
Vizhnitz after the latter’s petira in 1893. He was Admor for over 40 years,
during which time, Vizhnitz grew to several tens of thousands of Chasidim. Rav
Yisrael had four sons, Rav Menachem Mendel of Visheva, Rav Chaim Meir (the
Imrei Chaim), Rav Eliezer, and Rav Baruch. Rav Yisrael’s remains were moved to
Bnai Brak in 1950.
Rav Chaim Elazar (ben Tzvi Hirsch) Shapira of
Munkacs, the Minchas Elazar,
(1871-1937). He was a fifth generation descendent of the founder of the Dinov
dynasty, Rav Tzvi Elimelech (the Bnei
Yisas’char). He learned under his father, the Stryzower Rebbe, author of Darkei
Teshuvah on Yoreh De’ah. He succeeded his father as Rav of Munkacs in 1914.
Munkacs (or Munkacevo) for centuries the capital of Carpathian Russia ,
belonged to Hungary before World War I and to Czechoslovakia when that country
was created after World War I. He had no children with his first wife, and they
decided to divorce. His second wife bore him one daughter, Frimet. From his
youth and on, he completed the entire Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi every two
years. He was a prolific author. In addition to Minchas Elazar, he wrote
Nimukei Orach Chaim, Os VeShalom on the laws of tefillin and milah, and many
other sefarim. In 1930, he fulfilled a lifelong desire and visited Eretz
Yisrael with his 13 year old cousin and son in law to be, Baruch
Yerachmeil Yehoshua Rabinowicz . Sadly the Munkacser died only four
years after his daughter’s wedding in 1933. Soon after his petira, most of
the 15,000 Munkatch Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Rav Barukh, his son in law, – after saving thousands and unsuccessfully
attempting to convince other Chassidim to go with him -- made aliyah, and later
established a kehilla in Sao Paulo , Brazil ,
remaining for fifteen years. He then returned to Israel
, where he became the Rabbi of Cholon and later established a Beis Medrash in
Petach Tikvah which he led until his passing in 1999.
Rav Mordechai Yechezkiahu ben Shimon (1994)
Rav Yaakov Wehl (1937-2007). He was
born in Germany in 1937, and in early 1939, the Wehls left
Germany, settling in Boro Park. Yaakov learned at Yeshiva Rabbeinu
Yaakov Yosef (RJJ). In 1959, he married Hadassah Galinsky. Rabbi Wehl
began learning in the kollel of Yeshiva Ohr HaTorah, under Rav Chaim Pinchas
Scheinberg, in Bensonhurst. At the time, he attended law school at night
but eventually decided to leave law school and go into chinuch, spending
his years at Allentown, Pennsylvania; Monsey; Hebrew Academy of Nassau
County for 27 years; and Bais Yaakov of Boro Park Elementary School, where he
served as principal for 12 years. Rabbi Wehl authored the very popular Haggadah
“Ki Yeshalcha Bincha” in lashon kodesh, which was later translated into English
and published by ArtScroll as “The Haggadah with Answers.” He was Daf Yomi
maggid shiur for many years. He authored seforim on various mesechtos, include
Shekolim, Moed Katan, Chagiga, Horios, Me’ilah and Kerisus. He also
wrote a weekly Daf Yomi column in the Yated on Seder Nashim. In 1987,
Rabbi and Mrs. Wehl authored the book “House Calls to Eternity” about the life
story of their mother, Dr. Selma Wehl, who was a pediatrician in Boro Park for
over sixty years, helping people until she was in her nineties. In
2001, Rabbi and Mrs. Wehl moved to Lakewood, enabling themto be
near their children. A shul was founded at the home of his son, Rabbi
Moshe Wehl, on Sharon Court, and named for his father, R’ Aharon Wehl -- Bais Medrash
Ohel.
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