Yahrtzeit
Rav Shlomo Ephraim of Lunshitz
7 Adar
1550 – 1619
Role
Rosh Yeshiva
Location
Prague
Works
Kli Yakar
Author of Kli Yakar (1550-1619). He served as rosh yeshiva in Lemberg and then as Rav of Prague. He was well-known as an inspiring speaker and also wrote special selichos in memory of the Jews who suffered during the Prague pogroms of 1611.