pinchas ben - porat
1. pinchas goldschmidt (b. 1963) swiss - born russian rabbi 2. pinchas cohen gan (b. 1942), israeli artist 3. pinchas ben - porat (1914 - 55), israeli aviator middle names for pinchas: pinchas aharon pinchas efraim pinchas simeon pinchas yaakov
ben porat yosef ben porat aley - ayin banot tsa' adah aley - shur .
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pinchas book quotes: “rabbi pinchas lived a life of poverty. ” visitors to the inner earth (2011) “‘how do i look? ’ pinchas asked. ” lights out (2011 )
memorial meetings (speeches by ben - porat and m. libeling) [ y & h; ]
after effectively stopping the attack on nevatim, ben porat landed his plane near the settlement' s perimeter fence, got off the plane without turning off the engine, and inquired as to the condition of the wounded. he was told that one of the fighters was badly wounded. ben porat decided to leave the gunner behind and take the injured man with him. the gunner helped ben porat lift the wounded man up onto the plane, and ben porat took him to beit eshel, where he received initial medical care. in the early afternoon ben porat evacuated him to tel aviv, and then came back for another wounded man .
sherut ha' avir carries out its first raid: pinhas ben porat, in an rwd - 13, attacks arab marauders who had been besieging nevatim .
in 1955 deputy state attorney ben - porat – “the first woman in this position” - became a mother — to daughter ronit, now a mother of three .
a year later she met and married a fellow eatern european immigrant, a polish - born manufacturer, yosef rubinstein. they later changed their name to ben - porat .
miriam ben - porat: a woman of ‘firsts’ | the jewish press - urltoken | prof. livia bitton - jackson | 6 tishri 5773 – september 21, 2012 | urltoken
on july 27, 2012, miriam scheinsohn ben - porat, a woman who paved the way, a woman of milestones – of firsts — died at the age of 94 .
when the officer had left, ben porat decided to fly to nevatim immediately. he asked the people of beit eshel for a machine gun and hand grenades, and one of the men volunteered to come along as gunner. ben porat removed the two side doors, placed the gun in a way that would prevent its bullets from hitting the propeller or wheels, and took off for nevatim .
zevulun ben yaakov avinu (2312 - 1450 b. c. e .) .
pinchas ben - porat learned to fly at aviron, the jewish agency' s pre - world war ii flight school. with only 150 hours flight time, he became commander of the palmach' s flying platoon in january 1944. the palmach sent him to england for a year of advanced training and he returned in 1947 with a commercial flying licence, whereupon he immediately joined the sherut avir .
ben porat' s self - assigned mission had been sherut ha' avir' s first attack sortie, and it received much attention. the british authorities were furious and announced that from that time onwards, any jewish plane which used weapons would be shot down .
harav pinchas chaim taub of rozla, zy”a, (5696 / 1935). harav pinchas chaim taub was the son of rav yehudah tzvi of rozla. he was born on shemini atzeret in 5627 / 1866. in his youth, reb pinchas chaim knew his maternal great - grandfather, rav yitzchak eizik of kaliv, but was closer to his other grandfather, rav eliezer tzvi of komarna. reb pinchas chaim married the daughter of harav avraham chaim horowitz of linsk, a descendant of harav naftali tzvi of ropshitz. following his marriage, reb pinchas chaim settled in linsk. after the huge fire that broke out in linsk in 5646 / 1886, reb pinchas chaim returned to his father’s home in rozla. that year, reb yehudah tzvi was niftar, and reb pinchas chaim was appointed rav of the city in his place. he was only 19 years old at the time. as rav, reb pinchas chaim continued to travel to the court of his grandfather and, after the latter’s petirah, to rav yechezkel shraga of shinev. with the outbreak of world war i in 5674 / 1914, reb pinchas chaim fled to margareten, where he lived for the next eight years. in 5683 / 1923, he returned to rozla. tragedy struck again in 5686 / 1926, when a fire broke out and his house was destroyed along with many valuable possessions. the chassidim built him a new, larger house. he was niftar on 11 tishrei, motzoei yom kippur 5696 / 1935. in accordance with his tzavaah, his son rav yehudah yechiel was appointed his successor. his other sons were rav naftali betzalel, rav dovid shlomo of stry, and rav moshe ezra of samvishuer. his son - in - law was harav yechiel michel zukerberg of stry .
modi alon, ezer weizman, and ben - porat numbered among the tel aviv squdron' s original pilots. on dec. 17, 1947 - in the squadron' s first week of existence - ben - porat was tasked with supporting the negev settlement of nevatim, which was under attack by arab irregulars. he took probably a rwd 13 or an auster and made it to nevatim without incident. once there, he removed his right - hand door and took on a gunner with a bren gun as well as several hand grenades. ben - porat and his gunner spent a half - hour performing close air support, after which he returned the bren and its gunner to nevatim and flew home. his actions would be emulated as a matter of practice by many jewish pilots and crew in the coming months .
naftali, zt
l, ben yaakov avinu, (2327 / 1435 b. c. e. : see above .
the tanna r' elazar ben rab' shimon, zt
l, (3884 / 123 c. e .) .
when he arrived at nevatim, ben porat saw that there was a large scale attack under way, although the terrain - which afforded the arabs camouflage - prevented him from assessing the number of attackers involved. since it was not possible to shoot in the direction of flight - only diagonally and downwards - ben porat tilted the aircraft towards the target he chose each time, and told the gunner when to fire. the two fired and threw grenades on any spot where they saw people, or thought people might be hiding. it was not long before the attackers began fleeing for their lives .
ben - porat was chosen as one of the original ten pilots who left israel on may 9 to attend s - 199 training in czechoslovakia. he broke his arm crash - landing an s - 199 and was sent to fly transports during the first truce and, later, to b - 17s .
on may 6, rubenfeld and lenart joined eight israeli sherut avir pilots (modi alon, ezer weizman, jacob ben - chaim, pinchas ben - porat, itzchak hennenson, misha kenner, nachman me' iri, and the immigrant eddie cohen) on a leased pan african air charter dc - 3 leaving sde dov. it hopped to cyprus, rome, then geneva. from geneva, the group took a train to zurich and from there took a czechoslovakian airline dc - 3 to prague. after two days at a dingy prague hotel, they flew to ceske budejovice aboard a military ju 52. assigned a barracks and luftwaffe flight jackets, they began training .
a short time after he had landed at beit eshel, an armored british police car pulled in. the police officer, from the station at be' er sheva, questioned ben porat as to his reason for landing there, and wanted to know whether he possessed a flight permit from the department of civilian aviation .
in 1959 ben - porat was appointed as a judge in the jerusalem district court – another first. in 1975, she became the president of the jerusalem district court. from 1964 through 1978, she was also a professor at the hebrew university, specializing in contracts and commercial notes. she was the only faculty member without a doctorate .
birth of naftali ben yaakov (born to bilha). it is also the day of his yahrtzeit in 2327 - 1435 b. c. e. :
fruitful son although in hebrew the phrase ben porath is used twice, the first time it is translated as' fruitful son,' and the second time,' a fruitful vine' (targum; saadia gaon; sh' muel ben chofni). others see it as a repetition (rashbam; ibn ezra) .
ben porat replied that he had been sent by (private aviation company) aviron, and that the doctor accompanying him was from the magen david adom emergency medical service. the police officer went out to nevatim, to find out what was happening there. he returned a half hour later, and reported that the settlement was encircled by hundreds of arabs who were preventing anyone from entering or leaving .
after finishing high school in kovno in 1936, she immigrated to the british mandate of palestine by herself; siblings binyamin, reuven and bella soon followed her. her brother shimon managed to escape to russia and her sister rachel, to south africa. her parents, chayah and eliezer scheinsohn and her brother pinchas were murdered by the germans in lithuania in 1941 .
upon her retirement from the supreme court in 1988, ben - porat was appointed state comptroller and ombudsman for public complaints—a position in which she was again the first woman—and she filled this role in a dynamic and innovative manner. she significantly changed the office’s modus operandi replacing scrutiny of government action after the event with preemptive reports and measures intended to prevent improper governmental behavior before it occurred. one example of such action was her report during the gulf war (1991) about gas masks not fitting the faces of many inhabitants. as a result, they were replaced .
the tanna rab' akiva ben yosef, hy
d, died al kiddush hashem in caesaria, when he was murdered by the romans, (see 5 tishrei) for teaching torah. (3884 - 123 b. c. e). on that day rab' yehuda hanasi was born (kiddushin 72b). born ~ 50 ce, he received most of his teaching from rabi eliezer hagadol. one of the greatest of the tannaim, he was the teacher of great tzaddikim such as reb shimon bar yochai, reb meir baal hanes, reb yossi ben chlafta, reb yehuda ben eloy' and reb nechemia, and it was to them he passed on the mesora (tradition) of the oral torah. when the evil empire of rome decreed a prohibition on learning torah, reb' akiva taught torah in public, in defiance of their decree. he was caught and sentenced to death. he was brought out of prison to be tortured to death, with steels rakes tearing apart his flesh. it was the time of reciting the shema and in front of his students he was seen reciting the shema with great love for the one above, until his soul expired saying the words “hashem echod - the l - rd is one. ” rabi akiva was one of four tannaim who entered the pardes. the others were ben azzai, ben zoma, and acher [ elisha ben avuya ]. according to some, rabi akiva was the redactor of the sefer yetzira .
on july 4, 1998, she retired from her position as state comptroller, although she stayed involved in public activity and writing. she is the author of a variety of articles published in legal journals, of a book on state comptrol (an interpretation of the basic law: state comptroller, 1998 [ 2005 ]), and a commentary on the law of assignment. she remained active in public causes, such as the battle against the destruction of antiquities on the temple mount. in 1991 ben - porat received the israel prize, the country’s most distinguished award, for her special contribution to the state .
rav shaul mekiketz shelai, born in djerba, one of the two main cities in tunisia, son of rav matuk sali, and grandson of emmanuel shelai. at an early age, he leaned under rav dovid hakohen, and at age 20, he began to teach in the yeshiva of rav yosef bereibi, the ben porat yosef. with the latter’s passing, rav shaul became the rosh yeshiva. rav shaul edited and annotated many sefarim by previous gedolim of djerba, including kisei rachamim by rav rachamim mazuz and ben porta yosef by rav yosef bereibi. later in life, he and his wife moved to eretz yisrael and settled in shlomi, near nahariya. in yisrael, he wrote midrasho shel shlomo in 1948 and karmi sheli (on kiddushin) and medrash avos (on avos) in 1963, as well as other writings. his final work, bayit va’shem was published posthumously in 1975. appended to it is va’yatek mi’sham, offering guidelines and insightsd on raising children .
on december 17th reports came in from the negev which told of an attack upon a jewish convoy between revivim and' asluj, with several fighters seriously wounded. sherut ha' avir pilot pinhas (' pinyeh') ben porat and a doctor named polak took off in an rwd - 13 towards the settlement of beit eshel, to give medical aid to the wounded. upon landing, they learned that one of the injured men had died of his wounds, and the other had already been taken to a hospital. they were informed, however, that a group of arabs was attacking the settlement nevatim, eight km. to the east, and that there were wounded there who were awaiting evacuation .
harav salman eliyahu, zt’l, (5632 / 1872? 1878 - 5701 / 1940), the kerem shlomo. born in bagdad, he was a student of the ben ish chai, (1835 - 1909), and married mazal, a granddaughter of the sister of the ben ish chai. rav salman moved to the united kingdom from iraq and studied theology & philosophy. due to the western education he received in england, rav salman served as the personal secretary to lord herbert l. samuel, the high commissioner of the british mandate for palestine. upon the advice of his mentor the ben ish chai, rabbi salman moved back to yerushalayim. one of his works is the kerem shlomo, an explanation of the sefer of the great kabbalist, the rashash, entitled the rechovot hanahar. his son is harav mordechai tzemach eliyahu shlit”a, a great rabbi and posek who served as the sephardic chief rabbi of eretz yisrael from 1983 to 1993 .
gedalia ben achikam, appointed by nevuchadnetzar to rule the remaining jews after churban bayis rishon (the destruction of the first beit hamikdash), was murdered by yishmael ben nesanya. this unfortunate event brought great hardship and grief to the jewish people and is commemorated by a public day of fasting. (419 bce or 422 bce). some sources say that gedalia was slain on the first day of tishrei, but the fast was postponed till after rosh hashanah, since fasting is prohibited during a festival. according to radak, gedalia was killed today, on the second day of rosh hashana. upon his assassination, the last of the jews of judea were expelled from eretz yisroel
, appointed by nevuchadnetzar to rule the remaining jews after churban bayis rishon (the destruction of the first beit hamikdash), was murdered by yishmael ben nesanya. gedalia was from the royal family of the kings of yehuda, his father was a minister and his grandfather a scribe for king yoshiyahu. after his appointment to rule over the poor of the jewish people, who remained behind in israel after the forced exile to babylon, he called for all the jews who fled to surrounding nations to return to israel and rebuild. king belis of amon wanted to stop the development of the jewish settlement, and convinced yishmael ben nesanya to murder gedalia and his supporters. see 2 tishrei .
ber learned with the pnei yehoshua in lemberg early in his life. in 1752, he became the baal shem tov’s closest disciple. among his students were the rebbe reb shmuel shmelke halevi horowitz and his brother, reb pinchas halevi horowitz, the baal hafloh, the rebbe reb zushia and his brother, reb elimelech of lizhensk, rav levi yitzchak of berditchiv, rav nachum of chernobyl, rav shneur zalman of liadi. his son was rav avraham hamalach (1740 - 1776). the classic anthologies of his teachings are likutei amarim, torah ohr, and ohr haemmes .
the verse can thus be rendered,' joseph is a handsome son, a son handsome to the eye; girls strode out to see him' (bereshith rabbah 98; rashi); or' young girls strode out on the wall [ to see him ]' (targum yonathan; pirkey rabbi eliezer 39). or,' [ your ] daughters will walk the boundaries [ of their own lands ]' (tanchuma, pinchas 9; bamidbar rabbah 14: 7, 21: 12; alluding to the fact that among joseph' s descendants, women will be the first to inherit land; see numbers 27: 1, joshua 17: 6) .
zechariah ben yehoyada hakohen (hanavi) attempted to rebuke the people of israel for forsaking the derech hashem on a shabbat yom kippur (yerushalmi taanis 4: 5). the people stoned him in the ezrat kohanim at the command of king yoash and he died. his blood boiled and bubbled on the grounds of the beit hamikdash for 252 years until the churban rishon (kohelet rabba 3: 20) .
gedalia ben achikam, appointed by nevuchadnetzar to rule the remaining jews after churban bayis rishon (the destruction of the first beit hamikdash), was murdered by yishmael ben nesanya. gedalia was from the royal family of the kings of yehuda, his father was a minister and his grandfather a scribe for king yoshiyahu. after his appointment to rule over the poor of the jewish people, who remained behind in israel after the forced exile to babylon, he called for all the jews who fled to surrounding nations to return to israel and rebuild. king belis of amon wanted to stop the development of the jewish settlement, and convinced yishmael ben nesanya to murder gedalia and his supporters. this unfortunate event brought great hardship and grief to the jewish people and is commemorated by a public day of fasting on the third day of tishrei. . the sages established the fast of gedalia on the 3rd of tishrei to remember this tragic event and to teach us that the death of a tzaddik (holy man) is equivalent to the destruction of the beit hamikdash (the holy temple). some sources say that gedalia was slain on the first day of tishrei, but the fast was postponed till after rosh hashana, since fasting is prohibited during a festival. according to radak, gedalia was killed on the second day of rosh hashana. upon his assassination, the last of the jews of judea were expelled from eretz yisroel .
harav avraham abali ben chaim halevi gumbiner, zt
l, (1634 - 5443 / 1682), the magen avraham. born in gumbin, he witnessed the massacre of his parents in the chmielnitzki pogroms at the age of 18. he escaped to lissa, and then to kalish, where he became rosh yeshiva and afterwards dayan of the city. he is the author of magen avraham, a definitive commentary on shulchan aruch orach chaim. he also authored zayit ra’anan on yalkut shimoni .
the tanna rab' akiva was arrested by the romans. he was subsequently tortured and killed al kiddush hashem on yom kippur in caesarea, israel. rab' akiva had been a 40 - year - old shepherd who could not even read the alef - bet. one day, he came across a stone that had been holed out by a constant drip of water. he concluded: if something as soft as water can carve a hole in solid rock, how much more so can torah - - which is fire - - make an indelible impression on my heart. rab' akiva committed himself to torah study, and went on to become the greatest sage of his generation, with 24, 000 students learning under him at one time. he received most of his teaching from rab' eliezer hagadol. rab' akiva was one of four tannaim who entered the pardes. the others were ben azzai, ben zoma, and acher [ elisha ben avuya ]. according to some, rab' akiva was the editor of the sefer yetzira. the roman authorities eventually arrested him for
illegally
teaching torah. as he was being tortured, rab' akiva rejoiced in fulfilling the biblical command to
love hashem with all your life .
as he died, rab' akiva uttered the words of shema yisrael. his self - sacrifice for torah continues to inspire jews till today. the story of his killing, along with the other nine harugei malchut, is related in the stirring piyut, eleh ezkerah, recited during the yom kippur davening. a tannit tzaddikim was established to commemorate this event, as well as the killing of twenty jews during that time. (shulchan aruch 180: 2 )
harav dr. mordechai zeev (ben aryeh leib) braude, zt”l, (1870 - 1949). born in brest litovsk, he was the son of rav of lvov. his mother, chana, was the daughter of rav tzvi hirsch orenstein, rav of brest litovsk, rzeszow and lvov. he was a delegate to the first zionist congress. he served as a rav in stanislawow and lodz, as well as a fighter for the rights of the jews in austria and poland, and their representative in legal bodies. he moved to eretz yisrael and lived in yerushalayim .
the squadron threw a party - a good party, according to rubenfeld - upon rubenfeld' s safe return, at their quarters, the yarden hotel on tel aviv' s ben yehuda street. all the pilots but modi alon drank heartily (nomis and cull 1998). the next morning, weizman missed the jeep to ekron, so he borrowed alon' s motorcycle. at the beit degan junction, he hit a mortar shell crater and flew over the handlebars, breaking a bone in his left hand or wrist. the 101 was left with one plane and two pilots, lenart and alon .
rabbeinu chanoch ben rabbeinu moshe of cordova, zt
l, (1000), one of the four shevuyim (captives). the famous story of the
four captives
occurred, in which four premier torah scholars from babylonia were captured and redeemed in different centers in the mediterranean basin, where they became the leaders of important communities. the four set sail from southern italy to raise money for poor brides. they were set upon by pirates, who offered them to various communities. three of the four are known. harav shmaryohu ben elchonon was redeemed in alexandria, egypt; harav chushiel was redeemed in tunisia; rabbeinu moshe ben chanoch and his son chanoch were redeemed in cordoba, spain. they were first sold as slaves there and later redeemed by the community. rabbeinu moshe became rav of cordoba, and was succeeded in this position by his son after he was niftar in about 965 (4725). his halachic rulings were considered to be on the level of the geonei bavel of his time, as were rabbeinu chanoch' s. they established spain as a center of torah. rabbeinu chanoch' s main talmid was shmuel hanoggid. harav dovid jungreis, zt”l, (1898 - 5731 / 1971), rosh av beit din yerushalayim. rav dovid’s grandfather was rav moshe halevi jungreis, a student of the ktav sofer and the av beit din of kashoi, while his father was rav baruch reuven shlomo, the founder of the eidah hachareidit. he married rebbetzin miriam pu’ah, a daughter of rav asher zussman. in 1931, at the age of 33, he was appointed dayan in the eidah hachareidit beit din, joining rav yosef chaim sonnenfeld. his knowledge was so vast, the satmar rav once said, “if rav dovid is here, i don’t need any sefer. ” although he was childless, rav dovid’s insightful drashot, which were compiled by his students into a sefer, entitled or dovid .
was from the royal family of the kings of yehuda, his father was a minister and his grandfather a scribe for king yoshiyahu. after his appointment to rule over the poor of the jewish people, who remained behind in israel after the forced exile to babylon, he called for all the jews who fled to surrounding nations to return to israel and rebuild. king belis of amon wanted to stop the development of the jewish settlement, and convinced yishmael ben nesanya to murder gedalia and his supporters. see 1 tishrei. this unfortunate event brought great hardship and grief to the jewish people and is commemorated by a public day of fasting on the third day of tishrei. .
minkowski, pinchas (
pinie
; 1859–1924), russian cantor and composer. he was born in belaya tserkov, ukraine, where his father was the town cantor. minkowski received his basic training from his father, and joined the choir of nissan * spivak (
belzer
) in kishinev. at the age of 18, he was appointed spivak' s successor and three years later became chief cantor of the choral synagogue (
chor - schul
) in kishinev. after further study in vienna, he sang in kherson, lemberg, and odessa, and spent three years at the kahal adas yeshurun synagogue in new york, but was recalled to odessa in 1892 as chief cantor of the brody synagogue, an office he held for 30 years. minkowski had a tenor voice of natural sweetness though lacking in power. he avoided extraneous effects such as word repetition, falsetto, and needless coloraturas. a prominent member of the intellectual group which flourished in odessa, headed by * bialik, he lectured at the jewish conservatory, was chairman of the ha - zamir (
the nightingale
) musical society, and published many articles on ḥazzanut and jewish music, in hebrew, yiddish, and german. after the russian revolution he left for the united states, where he continued to sing and lecture .
harav noach of lechovitz, zt”l, (5593 / 1832). harav noach of lechovitz was the son of harav mordechai, the founder of the lechovitzer dynasty. he was born in 5534 / 1774. he was the talmid of his father and also of harav baruch of mezhibuzh. following the petirah of his father in 5570 / 1810, the chassidim appointed reb noach as his father’s successor, despite being just 36 years old. although the chassidim accepted him, reb noach refused to serve, saying that he felt that the elder and leading talmid of his father, harav michel of lechovitz, should be the new rebbe. finally, reb noach did agree to become rebbe, and many flocked to his court. although reb noach didn’t write down his divrei torah, they were recorded by the slonimer rebbe, the nesivot shalom, and printed as torat avot. in the sefer were also divrei torah of other rebbes of the lechovitz dynasty. reb noach was niftar on 7 tishrei 5593 / 1832 at the age of 68. as reb noach had no sons, his chassidim separated after his petirah. most went to his talmid, rav moshe of kobrin; some to his son - in - law, harav mordechai; and some to his nephew, harav shlomo chaim of koidenov. harav yaakov entebbe, zt”l, (1870), rav of damascus. (others 5607 / 1846). harav menachem nachum twersky of makarov, zt”l, (5612 / 1851), fourth of the eight sons of harav mordechai, the chernobyler maggid. he married hinda mattel, daughter of rav yosef halevi horowitz, the admor of turchin, who in turn was the son of the chozeh of lublin. in 1833 he became rebbe in the town of makarov. harav yosef berabi, zt”l, (5679 / 1918), dayan of djerba and author of ben porat yosef. harav yitzchak isaac (eizik) friedman, zt”l, (5704 / 1943), author of nachlat yitzchak
rabbeinu yitzchok — the r”i hazakein, zt”l, of the baalei tosfot (the commentary of the talmud) (1120 - 1200), (others 4949 / 1188). one of the greatest of the baalei hatosafot, the r”i of danfir, (as he was known), is very often quoted in their commentary to the gemara. he was the son of rabbeinu shmuel, son of rabbeinu simcha of vitri, author of machzor vitri, who was a talmid of rashi. his mother was miriam, a sister of rashbam and rabbeinu tam, all of whom were children of rabbeinu meir ben shmuel, the son - in - law of rashi hakadosh. rabbeinu yitzchak was married to the daughter of rabbeinu yehudah ben rabbeinu yom tov. (according to another opinion, he was married to the daughter of the riva”m .) he was a disciple of his uncle, rabbeinu tam, and succeeded him as rosh yeshiva in romrog (ramerupt) after rabbeinu tam moved to troyes. there he disseminated torah to klal yisrael. thereafter, he founded the yeshiva at dampierre. he was always careful not to argue with his uncle / rebbe and always showed the highest regard for him; he obeyed his commands and asked for his decisions in letters, and nullified his own opinion to that of rabbeinu tam. most of the baalei tosafot were his talmidim. the study hall of rabbi yitzchak is considered to be the source of the main body of the tosfot commentary. sixty torah scholars studied before him; each had mastered a specific masechta of shas. using this system and learning together, they clarified numerous difficult concepts throughout shas. rabbeinu yitzchak was a kabbalist who lived an ascetic life, davened at great length, and was always the last to leave shul. for yom kippur he would fast two days due to sfeika d’yoma — the reason that we in the diaspora observe two days of each yom tov. among his students were rav shimshon of sens (who edited many of our tosefot, wrote important works in his own right, and led 300 families to settle in eretz yisrael in 1211), the ros”h of shantz, rav yitzchak ben avraham (the ritzba), his son rabbeinu elchanan, and rabbeinu baruch baal haterumah, who went to live in eretz yisrael. ri had at least two sons, both of whom died in his lifetime: rabbeinu elchanan and rabbeinu shlomo. the r”i was buried in ramerupt, germany. through the efforts of rabbi yisrael meir gabbai, an ohel was built in recent years at the site believed to be the beit hachaim of many of the baalei tosafot, including the r”i .
harav eliyahu ben shlomo zalman kramer, zt
l, (5480 / 1720 – 5558 / 1797), known as the' vilna gaon
(
the genius from vilna
). he is regarded as the greatest rabbi of the past 500 years. the vilna gaon possessed a photographic memory: at age three he already knew the entire bible by heart, and by age seven he knew several tractates of talmud by heart and gave his first public discourse. by the time he was ten he had advanced to the point where he no longer needed a teacher. legend says that by age 12 he was able to kabbalistically create a golem (life out of formless mass). at the age of 35 he was approached by one of the leading sages of that time, rav yonaton eybschutz, to act as an intermediary in the conflict between him and another great sage, rav yakov emden .
birthday and yahrtzeit of zevulun ben yaakov avinu. he was the tenth son of the patriarch yaakov, the sixth son of the matriarch leah. he was born in paddan aram. his mother leah gave him his name, as the verse states (bereishit 30: 20): “g - d has endowed me (zevadani) with a good endowment; now my husband will make his permanent home with me (yizbeleini) for i have born him six sons. so she called his name zevulun. ” his tribe was blessed by his father (bereishit 49: 13): “zevulun shall settle by seashores. he shall be at the ship’s harbor, and his last border will reach zidon. ” his tribe provided support by means of their merchant activity to the tribe of yissachar, so they could devote themselves full time to torah study. when the children of israel left egypt they brought the bones of zevulun with them and buried them in zidon .
rabbeinu yitzchak halevi from speyer, zt”l, (1133), talmid of rashi. harav avraham abish of frankfurt, zt”l, author of birchat avraham (5529 / 1768). harav avraham abish was born in 5450 / 1690. his father was harav tzvi hirsh, rav of mezeritch. he learned under rav tzvi hirsh of halberstadt and rav naftali katz, the semichas chachamim. after his marriage, his wife opened a small store, while he sat and learned. it is said that he was zocheh to gilui eliyahu during this period. meanwhile, in the city of koriv, rav pinchas instructed before his passing that his place be filled by this tzaddik nistar. harav avraham abish was renowned for his hospitality; rav chaim of volozhin said he reached the level of avraham avinu in hachnasat orchim. he gave away all his money to tzedakah. although a respected rav, he never considered it below his dignity to collect for tzedakah. in 5516 / 1756, rav avraham abish was appointed rav of frankfurt. on his first shabbat as rav, rav avraham abish said in his drashah that he had three questions to ask. of himself: how could he dare take up this position in a city that had had rabbanim like the shelah, the pnei yehoshua and others? of the kehillah: how could they appoint him rav? and, k’vayachol, of hashem: could he not have found a more worthy rav for frankfurt? rav avraham abish wrote numerous sefarim, including birchat avraham, on shas; emek hamelech, on the rambam; kaneh avraham, on the torah and the megillot; machazeh avraham, on haggadah shel pesach. he was niftar on 11 tishrei 5529 / 1768, at age 78. he was survived by his sons: rav elazar, rav of shvell; rav yaakov, rav of kariv; rav aryeh leib of kari; rav yosef of kalish; rav tzvi hirsh of frankfurt; and rav ozer of mezeritch; and a son - in - law, rav asher lemel hakohen. harav tzvi aryeh of alik, zt”l, (5572 / 1811) .
harav yechiel michel (ben moshe) of zhvil, zt”l, the second zhviller rebbe (5548 / 1787 - 5615 / 1854). his father, rav moshe, the first zhviller rebbe, was one of the five sons of the zlotschover maggid, r' yechiel michel. the family were descendants of the zlotchov dynasty, and he was named after harav yechiel michel, the zlotchover maggid. reb yechiel michel married the daughter of harav yisrael chaim of ludmir, who was the son of harav avraham hamalach, son of the maggid of mezeritch. following the petirah of his father on 10 iyar 5591 / 1831, reb yechiel michel was named rebbe in zhvil. reb yechiel michel was renowned for his ahavat yisrael, his love and concern for every jew, and most of his divrei torah were on the topic of ahavat yisrael. he worked hard on behalf of those who were in trouble with the government (pidyon shevuyim). reb yechiel michel was niftar on 12 tishrei (the yahrtzeit of his wife’s grandfather, harav avraham hamalach; see above), and buried in zhvil. his sons were rav mordechai of zhvil, rav yitzchak shlomo of zelichov and rav moshe. his son - in - law was rav yaakov mordechai, rav of valkobisk .
harav meir yeudah leibush ben yechiel michel (malbim), zt
l. (1809 - 5640 / 1879). he was born in volhynia and was still a child when his father died. he studied in his native town until the age of 13. he then went to warsaw where he was known as the ‘ iluy from volhynia.' from 1838 to 1845 he was rav of wreschen, district of posen, and in the latter year was called to the rabbinate of kempen, where he remained until 1860; he was thereafter known as
der kempener .
in 1860 malbim became chief rabbi of bucharest, rumania. but he could not agree with the rich german jews there who wished to introduce the reform rite and even threatened violence in the pursuit of their aims. by intrigues they succeeded in throwing him into prison, and though he was liberated through the intervention of sir moses montefiore, it was upon the condition that he leave rumania. he became rav of moghilef, on the dnieper in 1870, but his lack of subservience provoked the resentment of the richer jews, who denounced him as a political criminal. the governor of moghilef ordered him to leave town. malbim then went to königsberg as chief rabbi of the polish community, but there he fared no better than in bucharest and moghilef; he was continually harassed by the german jews. his fame and immense popularity rests upon his widely esteemed commentary to tanach, in which he details the close relationship between the oral and the written law .
harav yitzchak aryeh (zekel leib) wormeiser (wormer), zt
l, (5527 / 1767 or 1768 - 5608 / 1847), also known as the baal shem of michaelstadt (1768 - 1847). harav yitzchak aryeh, known as reb zekel leib, was born in michaelstadt, germany. his father was harav matisyahu. the family traced their lineage from harav eliyahu baal shem, stretching all the way back to dovid hamelech. from his earliest youth, reb yitzchak aryeh reached exalted madreigot through self - deprivation. at the age of 15, he went to learn under the auspices of harav nosson hakohen adler, one of the greatest rabbanim in his time. at the age of 17, he left home to learn at the yeshiva gedolah of frankfurt, headed by rav pinchas horowitz, the baal hafla' ah. by the time he was 18, reb yitzchak aryeh was fluent in chochmat hakabbalah. he also became close to rav nosson adler, the chasam sofer' s rebbi. he continued learning under rav nosson adler until 5549 / 1789, when he married, returned to his hometown and founded a yeshivah. hundreds of talmidim thronged to his yeshivah. reb yitzchak aryeh took care of all their needs with care and warmth. due to persecution by kehillah members who opposed his ways, as well as his frequent forays into chochmat hanistar, he was not accepted as rav in michelstadt. in fact, once they even had him thrown into jail. as these events detracted from his ability to continue his rigorous avodat hashem, he moved to mannheim, where he remained for a short while. in 5582 / 1822, reb yitzchak aryeh moved back to michelstadt, where he was finally accepted as rav of the city and its surrounding environs. he was known as a baal mofet, performing many wondrous miracles in order to help yidden. people flocked to him from all over the continent. gedolim such as the chiddushei harim and the chasam sofer told their petitioners to seek his brachah. reb yitzchak aryeh suffered much during his lifetime. he lost his rebbetzin at a young age and a number of his children died in his lifetime. as mentioned above, he suffered persecution and his home burned down with his entire collection of precious sefarim and unpublished manuscripts. what remained of his writings was gathered and published by machon yerushalayim in the baal shem of michelstadt. reb yitzchak aryeh was niftar on the night of motzoei tzom gedaliah, and is buried in the beitt hachaim in worms. (some have the yahrtzeit as 4 tishrei) .
harav yosef shlomo delmedigo, zt”l, the yashar of candia (1591 - 5416 / 1655). his forefathers moved to crete from germany in the early 15th century. as a youth, he excelled in his torah studies as well as mathematics, astronomy, medicine and mastered several languages, all before he was 15. he then traveled to padua to enroll in the university, where he studied under galileo. after graduation, he returned to candia. he married and began to practice medicine, by which he earned his acronym, “yashar” (yosef shlomo rofeh). he wrote an encyclopedic treatise entitled bait yaar halevanon, a summary of all branches of knowledge studied in his days (never published). he also amassed a library of over 7000 volumes. he became the personal physician of prince radzivil of lithuania while he lived in vilna. while there, he replied at length to a series of deep questions on philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy. his treatise is called mayan ganim, but the reference is sometimes called by the name of the book of the questions, sefer eilim. rav yosef became rav of hamburg, where he wrote matzreif lachachmah, a defense of the study of kabalah. in 1628, he became sephardic rav of amsterdam, where his sefer novlot chachmah, was published. harav yitzchak eizek of koritz, zt”l, (1787). harav meshulam katz, zt”l, (1799), author of ikar tosefot yom tov. harav mordechai of lechovitch, zt”l, (1810), disciple of rav shlomo of karlin. he was exceedingly charitable, particularly toward the poor of eretz yisrael. harav meir ben aaron judah arik of tarnow, galicia, zt”l, (1855 - 5687 / 1926). he was the teacher the maharsham, reb yehuda (yeedle’le) horowitz of dzikov, and rav meshulam roth; author of teshuvot imrei yosher, tal torah and more. (others 1925). harav mordechai leifer of nadvorna, zt”l, (1835 - 1894). the great - grandson of rav meir “the great” of premishlan, rav mordechai was orphaned early and raised by his uncle, reb meir’l of premishlan. his teachings are collected in gedulat mordechai .
harav avraham kalfon, zt”l, rav of tripoli, libya, (5495 / 1735 - 5580 / 1819). born to rav refael, in tripoli, libya. (actually, in those days, libya did not exist - the region was comprised of three independent regions, cyrenaica, tripolitania and fazzan. by the time of rav avraham' s birth, ahmed karamanli controlled much of modern libya. karamanli was a member of the sultan' s household guard, assassinated tripoli' s evil ottoman governor in 1711, and installed himself as a semi - independent ruler in his stead. as a result, tripoli became a corsair (barbary pirate) base .). the family was a distinguished one, their lineage stemming from parnassim and dayanim. he learned under several sages, most notably the italian gadol, rav malachi ben yaakov hakohen, author of yad malachi, a sefer that discusses the methodology and rules of the shas and poskim. blessed with wealth from both his parents and his in - laws, rav avraham was able to devote himself to torah his whole life. he was appointed sheikh (president) of tripoli' s kehilla, in 1778. harav avraham writes of himself that he was appointed parnass in tripoli in 5535 / 1775, holding the post until 5541 / 1781, with another term from 5552 / 1792 until 5558 / 1798. he was fluent in both nigleh and nistar. harav avraham was interested in history and searched through archives for manuscripts, becoming fluent in the jewish history of ancient tripoli. he had a special relationship with the chida; the two exchanged many letters. in 5564 / 1804, harav avraham went to livorno, living there near the chida for a year and a half. harav avraham was renowned for his acts of tzedaka, especially for needy talmidei chachamim. his love of eretz yisrael impelled him to move there in 5566 / 1806. he settled in tzefat, where he remained for the rest of his life. harav avraham was niftar on shabbat shuvah, 6 tishrei, 5580 / 1819, at the age of 84. he wrote numerous sefarim. the best known is chayei avraham, on the reasons for the mitzvot. (others 7 tishrei) .
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this will eventually be a list of all the 101 pilots and others involved with the squadron, with each name linked to a page or list of links about that pilot. i will consider the unit to have formed up on may 21, 1948, the date on which the first avia s - 199 arrived in israel. although not officially named the 101 squadron until later, the unit first took part in operations on may 29 .
to start with, here' s an alphabetical list, of the following format: name; nationality; date of arrival in israel; fate; comments. dates are 1948 unless otherwise noted .
the living and bathroom conditions of the squadron were not the most glamorous. their bathrooms weren' t adorned with luxury bathroom accessories, nor did their showers have extremely hot water. in fact, some locations didn' t have bathrooms at all !
after the war of independence, he became the first israeli to teach in the iaf flying school and helped manage the program. after a tour as co of 69 squadron (flying b - 17s), he left the military in 1950 to join el al. he was the co - pilot on the el al constellation mistakenly shot down by the bulgarian air force, july 27, 1955, killing all aboard .
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pinchas ( " pini " ) ben-porat ( hebrew : פנחס בן פורת ; october 10 , 1914 - july 27 , 1955 ) was one of israel 's first aviators . he was involved in the palavir , sherut avir , the iaf 's 101 squadron , and el al . 
pinchas (" pini ") ben-porat (hebrew: פנחס בן פורת; october 10, 1914 - july 27, 1955) was one of israel's first aviators. he was involved in the palavir, sherut avir, the iaf's 101 squadron, and el al.
pinchas (" pini ") ben-porat (hebrew: פנחס בן פורת; october 10, 1914 - july 27, 1955) was one of israel's first aviators. he was involved in the palavir, sherut avir, the iaf's 101 squadron, and el al.