The Hillula of the Miracle-Working Tzaddik, Rabbi Yitzchak Gavra zy"a

Tonight, the 21st of Tammuz, is the day of the hillula of the miracle-working Tzaddik, Rabbi Yitzchak ben Yitzchak Gavra zy"a, who is buried in the community of Ajur near Beit Shemesh

Rabbi Yitzchak Gavra was born in the village of Aswad in the year 5625 (תרכ"ה) to his father, Rabbi Yitzchak. In fact, he was the 17th generation in the rabbinic leadership of the village of Aswad. In the year 5709 (תש"ט), he ascended to the Holy Land with a group of his students and settled in the community of Ajur. On the 21st of Tammuz, 5710 (תש"י), he passed away. Before his passing, he asked to be buried together with his wife, for with his Ruach HaKodesh he foresaw that she would pass away about ninety days after him.

Rabbi Yitzchak was known as a master of Shas and the Poskim, and for an unimaginable knowledge of the secrets of Kabbalah. Many salvations were drawn to him. His grave in Moshav Ajur has an entire story of its own: when Border Police guards came to evacuate his grave, the guards were injured and the tractors overturned.

In recent years, his gravesite has become a focal point of pilgrimage on the 21st of Tammuz. Below is a prayer written by the holy gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, to say at his holy tziyun:

The Tzaddik Who Brings About Salvations in the Midst of the Land

Master of the World, Almighty—just as You performed miracles and wonders for Yitzchak Gavra, the Holy of Holies, who merited to be unique across several generations, performing miracles and wonders without end and beyond all measure; and he saved hundreds of thousands of people and raised them from death to life, and all of them merited to live until 107 years; and through this, to subdue the fire of Gehinnom and to take them out of Gehinnom in the blink of an eye = 435; and through this, Hashem is One = 1, to reveal the soul of Moshiach 358 son 53 of David 24 = 435.

Below is documentation from the night of the hillula, 21st of Tammuz 5783. Photo: Shuvu Banim website (MB)