Tonight, the 21st of Tammuz, is the yahrzeit of the Tzaddik and miracle worker Rabbi Yitzchak ben Yitzchak Gavra zy”a (may his merit protect us), who is buried in the settlement of Agur near Beit Shemesh.

Rabbi Yitzchak Gavra was born in the village of Aswad in the year 5625 (1865) to his father, Rabbi Yitzchak, and was the 17th generation of rabbinic leadership in the village of Aswad. In 5709 (1949), he immigrated to the Holy Land with a group of his students and settled in the settlement of Agur. On the 21st of Tammuz, 5710 (1950), he passed away, and before his passing, he requested to be buried alongside his wife, foreseeing through Ruach HaKodesh that she would pass away approximately ninety days after him.

Rabbi Yitzchak was renowned for his mastery of the Talmud and halachic authorities, as well as his incomprehensible knowledge of the secrets of Kabbalah. Many salvations are attributed to him, and those at his grave in Agur are like from a fairy tale. When Border Police guards came to clear his grave, they were injured, and their tractors overturned. In recent years, his grave has become a focal point for pilgrimage on the 21st of Tammuz. Below is a prayer composed by Moreinu HaRav Eliezer Berland shlit”a to be recited at his holy grave:

The Tzaddik who performs salvations in the midst of the earth

Master of the Universe, Who can do everything, just as You performed miracles and wonders for Yitzchak Gavra, holy of holies, who merited to be the only one in many generations to perform infinite and unfathomable miracles and wonders, saving hundreds of thousands of people, raising them from death to life, and enabling them all to live until 107 years, thereby subduing the fires of Gehinnom and bringing them out of Gehinnom in the blink of an eye = 435, and through this, “Hashem Echad” = 1, to reveal the soul of Mashiach 358 ben 53 David 24 = 435.

Below is a photo gallery from the night of the Hilulah of the 21st of Tammuz, 5783 (2023). Photo: Shuvu Banim website (MB):