8 Nisan - Nasi & Yahrzeits

Nasi of Menashe – Gamliel ben Pedotzur

See Day 1 for more on the Neseim.

Yahrzeits for 8 Nisan

 

R' Mordechai ben Dov Ber Shapira of Neshchiz, Talmid Muvhak of R’ Yechiel Mechel of Zlotchov

R' Eliyahu of Prague ben Binyamin Wolf Shapiro, author of Eliyahu
Rabba (1712)

R' Yechiel Michel Tikochinsky, author of Gesher HaChaim

 

R’ Eliyahu Hakadosh of York, Rabbeinu Yom Tov and several other of the English Baalei Tosafos. They were killed  “al Kiddush Hashem” at Clifford's Tower, in York, during the Crusades 1146. This is where the Cherem of York, forbidding Jews to never sleep in the City of York overnight, started.

Reb Yaakov Tzvi Yales of Premezyln, author of Melo Haroim and Kehillas Yaakov, 1825