21 Av · Yahrzeit
Rabbi Alexander Sender of Komarno
Rabbi Alexander Sender ben Yitzchak Eichenstein of Komarno (1770-1818) was a disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin, and the author of "Zichron Devarim."
Yahrzeit - 21 Av
Burial place - Cemetery Komárno, Hungary
His father, Reb Yitzchak Isaac Eichenstein of Zhafran, Hungary, besides being a great philanthropist, was a great tzadik and Talmid Chacham, even though he never held a rabbinic position. He was a descendant of the Tosafot Yom Tov.
He had five sons, all of whom became great tzadikim: Reb Tzvi Hirsch of Zhidachov, Reb Moshe of Sambor, Reb Alexander Sender of Komarno, Reb Yissachar Ber of Zhidachov, and Reb Liba of Sambor. The eldest son, Reb Tzvi Hirsch, said of his father, "I am like vinegar, the son of wine," showing how great he considered his father to be.
Once, when Reb Yitzchak was already very old, he cried out and sighed loudly for a long time. His wife asked him what was troubling him. He answered that he was worried about how they would merit entering Gan Eden. His wife replied with two words from the weekly Torah portion of Chukat (20:19): בַּמְסִלָּה נַעֲלֶה "bamsila na'aleh" - (by the highway we shall go up). In fact, by these words she meant: נַעֲלֶה - we shall rise up to Gan Eden, and בַּמְסִלָּה - is an acronym for the names of her sons: Ber, Moshe, Sender, Liba, and Hirsch. That is, in the merit of our great sons we shall merit Gan Eden.
Rabbi Alexander wrote about himself: "From the day I turned two years old until I was five, I received wondrous visions, and the Ruach HaKodesh accompanied me, and I spoke words of prophecy when someone asked for the word of G-d. And I saw from one end of the world to the other. And my teacher, the Divine Rabbi Tzvi of Zhidichov, gave me two assignments a week, so that I would relate to him and answer everything he asked me. And I spoke clearly and answered all the questions he asked me, and gave money to charity."
Rabbi Alexander Sender is buried in the same cemetery as the great Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the "Yismach Moshe."
May the merit of the tzadik protect Am Yisrael!
(from zchut-avot blog-post)