Famous Yahrzeits for Tuesday

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Tuesday, 18 Cheshvan

Rav Yisrael Dov Ber Odesser, leader of Breslaver Chassidim (1888-1994). He is
best known for revealing and teaching the Na Nach Nachma mantra. born in Tiverya
to a family which for generations were Karliner Chassidim. Later a follower of
Breslav, his revelation of the Na Nach Nachma mantra was rejected by mainstream
Breslovers for many decades. In 1980, however, a group of baalei teshuva
discovered him in an old-age home in Yerushalayimm and were attracted to his
teachings.

Rav Yishayah Bardaky (1862). Rav Bardaky was born in Pinsk and taught Torah
there, but he decided to settle in Eretz Yisrael after his first wife died. When
the ship carrying Rav Bardaky, his son, Shmuel Akiva, and his daughter, neared
the port of Akko, it was wrecked, and all the passengers were thrown into the
sea. Rav Bardaky, however, was a powerful swimmer, and, with his two children on
his back, he swam ashore. Upon reaching Yerushalayim, Rav Bardaky was appointed
head of the Ashkenazic community. He also was appointed vice-consul of the
Austrian Empire.
Rav Yaakov Friedman of Bohush-Husyatin (1956)

Rav Raphael Baruch Toledano of Morocco, author of Sephardic Kitzur Shulchan
Aruch (1970)

Rav Nachum Pertzovitz (Partzovitz), Rosh Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim (1986). At
the age of 9, he attended Ramailles Yeshiva in Vilna, and became close to its
rosh yeshiva, Rav Shlomo Heiman.

Rav Nechemiah Kibel (1952-2005). Born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Holocaust
survivors, R’ Kibel entered the newly founded Yeshiva of the South, under Rav
Meir Belsky, who was one of the first talmidim of Rav Yitzchak Hutner. He served
as a magid shiur at the yeshiva in Memphis, then founded and taught at RITSS
(Regional Institute for Torah and Secular Studies), Cincinnati’s Bais Yaakov in
1989. A few later, he played a major role in the founding of Cincinnati’s
Community Kollel.