1 Elul (1313 BCE) (Wednesday)
Moses ascends Mount Sinai for 3rd set of 40 days
[2 Elul]
First printing of the Shulchan Aruch, near Tzfat, 1555.
[3 Elul]
Birthdate of the Meiri, 1240.
Yahrzeit of Rav Kook zt”l, 1935. He died 16 years to the day of his arrival in Jerusalem.
[4 Elul] (Parshas Shoftim)
Yahrzeit of R. Meir Simcha HaKohen, the Ohr Same’ach, 1926.
[6th of Elul]
Hagaon Harav Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, kabbalist best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosafot Yom-Tov (1614-1617). Heller was one of the significant Talmudic scholars in Prague and Poland during the "Golden Age" before 1648.
[7 Elul]
Rabbi Reuvein Margolies was an Israeli author, Talmudic scholar, and head of the Rambam library.
The oldest ketuba was written in the Western Hemisphere in 1643 (Yitzchak and Yehudit).
[9 Elul]
Ramban arrived in Jerusalem in 1267 and reestablished the Jewish community soon after. (The community enjoyed continuous existence until 1948 when it was reestablished in 1967.)
[11 Elul] Parshas Ki Seitzei
[15 Elul]
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Akiva Eiger, 1758.
Russia decreed the draft of Jewish boys from the age of 12, 1827 (imagine how many boys were lost because of this!)
[17 Elul]
The spies who gave the tragic and catastrophic report about Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) died on the 17th of Elul.
[18 Elul] Parshas Ki Savo
Yahrzeit of the Maharal of Prague,1609.
[20 Elul]
Yahrzeit of the Ponevezher Rav, 1969.
[21 Elul]
Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeshitz famed Talmudist, Halachist and Kabbalist.
[24 Elul]
Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky, also affectionately known as 'Reb Chatzkel Abramsky,' was a prominent and influential Orthodox rabbi and scholar.
Yahrzeit of the Chafetz Chaim, 1933.
[25 Elul] Parshas Netzavim-Vayeilech
Selichos Begin on Motzei Shabbos
Day One of Creation.
Yahrzeit of the Minchat Chinuch, 1874 Rabbi Joseph ben Moses Babad was a rabbi, posek and Talmudist, best known for his work, the Minchas Chinuch, a commentary on the Sefer Hachinuch.