- "Ner Neshamah" in Hebrew means a soul candle, or a memorial candle. In Hebrew, instead of "for the repose of the soul", the term Le-Iluy is used, meaning the elevation of the soul. Lighting a candle le-iluy nishmat the deceased is mentioned in several sources.
The Yahrzeits of Tzadikim in the Month of Cheshvan and Their Segulot
The Yahrzeits of Tzadikim in the Month of Cheshvan and Their Segulot
1 Cheshvan – David u-Moshe – 40 candles
1 Cheshvan — Rabbi Yosef Engel – Av Beit Din of Krakow
2 Cheshvan - Rabbi Shmuel de-Modena – Maharashdam
2 Cheshvan – Rabbi Baruch ben Yisrael Hager – Makor Baruch
3 Cheshvan — Rabbi Yisrael bar Shalom Shachna Friedman – Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin
3 Cheshvan – Rabbi Yosef Zundel ben Binyamin Beinush of Salant –
(teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter)
3 Cheshvan — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ben Yaakov Ovadia - “Manhig,” “Posek ha-Dor”
3 Cheshvan – Rabbi Eliezer ben Naftali Tzvi of Dzikow – son of Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz
4 Cheshvan - Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira - Admor of Piaseczna
4 Cheshvan – Rabbi Yehuda he-Hasid Segal ha-Levi – “Hurva Synagogue”
5 Cheshvan — Rabbi Zvi-Hirsch bar Meir Kalischer – “Hibbat Zion”
7 Cheshvan — Rabbi Meir bar Yaakov Shimshon Shapiro of Lublin – “Daf Yomi”
8 Cheshvan — Rabbi Nachum Kaplan of Grodno (Reb Nachumke) - teacher of the Chafetz Chaim
8 Cheshvan - Rabbeinu Yonah bar Shmuel Gerondi - Rabbeinu Yonah - “Shaarei Teshuvah”
9 Cheshvan — Rabbi Shimon Yehuda bar Yitzchak - Shmuel Aharon Shkop of Grodno
9 Cheshvan — Rabbi Asher bar Yechiel of Toledo – the Rosh
9 Cheshvan - Rabbi David Zion Laniado
10 Cheshvan – Rabbi Dov Berish ben Yaakov Weidenfeld – the Rav of Chebín
10 Cheshvan — Rabbi Eliyahu bar Yaakov Ragoler – Volozhin Yeshiva
10 Cheshvan — Gad ben Yaakov Avinu - one of the Twelve Tribes
11 Cheshvan — Methuselah ben Enoch (Noah’s grandfather — lived 969 years)
11 Cheshvan — Rachel Imeinu
11 Cheshvan — Binyamin ben Yaakov Avinu - one of the Twelve Tribes
11 Cheshvan — Rabbi Menachem Nachum bar Zvi-Hirsch Twersky – the Chernobyl Rebbe - “Me’or Einayim”
12 Cheshvan — Rabbi Yehuda Yehoshua ben Shaul Tzadka - Rosh Yeshiva of “Porat Yosef”
12 Cheshvan – Ze’ev Wolf Kitzes – the Ba’al Toke’a (a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov)
12 Cheshvan — Rabbi Ben Zion Mordechai Yechezkel Chazan - co-founder of the “Porat Yosef” Yeshiva
14 Cheshvan – Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlow of Karlin – Al Kiddush Hashem
15 Cheshvan – Rabbi Leib Ba’al ha-Yissurim – the Holy Sufferer (a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov)
15 Cheshvan — Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz - the Chazon Ish
15 Cheshvan — Mattityahu Kohen ha-Gadol - the Hasmonean
15 Cheshvan - Rabbi Yehuda Leon Patilon (1905–1974) – “the Holy Artist” – a hidden tzadik
15 Cheshvan - Rabbi Chaim Pinto ha-Katan of Casablanca
16 Cheshvan — Rabbi Elazar-Menachem-Man bar Ezriel Shach – Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh
16 Cheshvan – Rabbi Amram ha-Chasid – an amora of the third generation
18 Cheshvan - Rabbi Yechezkel ha-Kohen Rabinowitz of Radomsk
18 Cheshvan — Rabbi Yisrael Ber Odesser
18 Cheshvan - Rabbi Yaakov ben Yitzchak Friedman - Admor of Husiatyn
18 Cheshvan - Rabbi Zion Bitan - Kabbalist from Djerba
18 Cheshvan — Rabbi Raphael Baruch ben Yaakov Toledano
19 Cheshvan – Abel ben Adam
20 Cheshvan – Rabbi Avraham bar Yitzchak – Raavad II – “Sefer Eshkol”
20 Cheshvan — Rabbi Mordechai ben Yefet Avraham Sharabi
21 Cheshvan — Rabbi David ben Zimra – Radbaz (teacher of the Arizal)
24 Cheshvan — Rabbi Avraham Azulai - “Or ha-Chamah,” “Chesed le-Avraham”
24 Cheshvan — Rabbi Gedalia Moshe mi-Zvil - the younger Rebbe of Zvil
24 Cheshvan — Rabbi Shlomo Aben-Danan
25 Cheshvan - Rabbi Avraham ben Shlomo Zalman - “Ma’alot ha-Torah” (brother of the Vilna Gaon)
25 Cheshvan - Rabbi Naftali ben Elazar of Lizhensk, grandson of the “Noam Elimelech”
26 Cheshvan - Rabbi Abba ben Yitzchak Abuhatzeira - grandson of the Abir Yaakov
26 Cheshvan - Rabbi Shlomo Segal (Av Beit Din in Polonne and Lviv in 1638) - “Mi-Beit Levi”
27 Cheshvan - Rabbi Solomon Hirschel - Chief Rabbi of Britain (1842)
28 Cheshvan - Rabbeinu Yonah ben Avraham Gerondi - “Shaarei Teshuvah”
28 Cheshvan - Rabbi Or Shraga (Light of the Candle) - miracle-worker from Iran
30 Cheshvan — Rabbi Zvi-Hirsch of Rimanov
Why Is It So Important to Light a Ner Neshamah
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