BS"D * *Todays Yahrtzeits*   👇 * . Thursday 15th of Shevat Rav Chaim Mordechai Margulies, author of Shaarei Teshuva (1823) Rav Gedalya Aharon (son of Rav Yitzchak Yoel) of Linitz, author of Chen Aharon. (1877). Rav Rafael Shlomo Laniado, Rosh Yeshivas Porat Yosef (1925) (Yated 2008) Rav Baruch Kunstat, born in Pressburg, Hungary, to Rav Avraham Aryeh, a descendent of the Chasm Sofer. He studied in the yeshiva of Rav Simcha Bunim Sofer (the Shevet Sofer) and his son Rav Akiva Sofer (the Das Sofer), he was appointed Rav of Fulda in 1907 at the age of 22. There, he married Tzipora, daughter of Rav Elchanan Moshe Emanuel, and he founded a yeshiva. Afte spending time in Buchenwald, he was released and moved to Eretz Yisrael. Along with Rav Yechiel Michel Shlesinger (who also escaped from the camps), he founded Yeshiva Kol Torah in 1939. It was the first Azhkenazi Yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael in which shiurim were delivered in Hebrew and not Yiddish, the format having been approved by the Chazon Ish. In his will, Rav Shlesinger, who was nifter in 1946, expressed the hope the rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach would replace him as Rosh Yeshiva. (1885-1967) .