Rav Yaakov Landau zt"l
הרב יעקב בן משה יהודה לייב לאנדא זצ"ל
Shevat 26 , 5746
Father's Name: Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau
Rav Yaakov Landau zt"l
At the age of thirteen, Rav Yaakov went to learn in Lubavitch under the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Sholom Ber, the Rashab. At the age of nineteen, he replaced his father as Rav of Kornitz, and later became the emissary of the Rashab in Lubavitch. When the Bolsheviks began persecuting Rabbonim, Rav Yaakov moved to Latvia, where he became close to the Rogatchover Gaon. It was there that he married. In 1934, he moved to Eretz Yisrael, soon becoming Rav of Bnei Brak, a position he kept for the following fifty years.