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Shimon Shkop (507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shimon Yehuda Shkop (Hebrew: שמעון שקופ; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah

Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin (397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin (1798 – 21 March 1870) of Aleksander served as the rebbe of a community of thousands of Hasidim during the "interregnum"

Avigdor Cohen of Vienna (231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Avigdor HaKohen ben Elijah of Vienna (also known as Rabbi Avigdor Cohen Tsedek or Avigdor Cohen von Wien) (fl. mid-13th century) was the earliest

Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir (174 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yehuda ben Meir, also known as Yehudah Leontin, was a German rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE, who was from Mainz

Meir HaKohen (199 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meir HaKohen was a German rabbinical scholar of the end of the thirteenth century. He authored Hagahot Maimuniot (or Haggahot Maimuniyyot) (הגהות מיימוניות

Abiathar (722 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abiathar (Hebrew: אֶבְיָתָר ʾEḇyāṯār, "father (of) abundance"/"abundant father"), in the Hebrew Bible, is a son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at

Jochebed (1,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

disobeying the Pharaoh's order to dispose of the firstborn males. Some rabbinic literature attempts to resolve the textual discrepancy in which the Torah lists

Kislev (642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

month) because of the expectation and hope for rains. In Jewish Rabbinic literature, the month of Kislev is believed to correspond to the Tribe of Benjamin

Tribe of Issachar (937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Issachar (Hebrew: יִשָּׂשכָר/יִשְׂשָׂכָר, Modern: Yīssaḵar, Tiberian: Yīssāḵār) was one of the twelve tribes

Alexander Suslin (459 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander Suslin (or Alexander Süsslein) HaKohen (died 1349) was a prominent 14th century rabbinic authority born in Erfurt, Germany, and one of the most

Nathan Adler (718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nathan Adler (1741–1800) was a German kabbalist and rosh yeshiva. He was responsible for training several prominent rabbis of the era. He was born in Frankfurt

Mordechai ben Hillel (858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen (Hebrew: "המָּרְדֳּכַי" ,רבי מרדכי בן הלל הכהן; c. 1250–1298), also known as The Mordechai or, by some Sephardic scholars

Joshua Falk (722 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk (1555 – 29 March 1614) was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Drisha and Prisha commentaries

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century. He was a kohen, and

Ishtori Haparchi (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ishtori Haparchi (1280–1355), also Estori Haparchi and Ashtori ha-Parhi (Hebrew: אשתורי הפרחי) is the pen name of the 14th-century Jewish physician, geographer

Rehoboam (1,822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rehoboam (/ˌriːəˈboʊ.əm/; Hebrew: רְחַבְעָם‎, Rəḥaḇʿām, transl. "an enlarged people"; Greek: Ροβοάμ, Roboam; Latin: Roboam) was, according to the Hebrew

Solomon Schechter (1,359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Solomon Schechter (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן הכהן שכטר‎; 7 December 1847 – 19 November 1915) was a Moldavian-born British-American rabbi, academic scholar and

Caiaphas (2,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

According to Helen Bond, there may be some references to Caiaphas in the rabbinic literature. In November 1990, workers found an ornate limestone ossuary while

Jehoiakim (1,782 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jehoiakim, also sometimes spelled Jehoikim was the eighteenth and antepenultimate King of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of King Josiah

Yisrael Meir Kagan (2,630 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (January 26, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works

Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen (350 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen was one of the hachmei Provence, one of a family of scholars living at Narbonne, France (not Lunel, as David Conforte and others

Abijah of Judah (1,249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abijam (Hebrew: אֲבִיָּם, Modern: ʼAvīyam, Tiberian: ʼĂḇīyyām, "father of the sea" or "my father is the sea/is Yam"; Biblical Greek: Αβιού, romanized: Aviou;

Nehemiah (1,413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nehemiah (/ˌniːəˈmaɪə/; Hebrew: נְחֶמְיָה‎ Nəḥemyā, "Yah comforts") is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding

Zadok (1,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zadok or Zadok HaKohen, also spelled Ṣadok, Ṣadoc, Zadoq, Tzadok or Tsadoq (Hebrew: צָדוֹק הַכֹּהֵן, romanized: Ṣādōq ha-Kōhēn; lit. 'righteous, justified')

Nathan Marcus Adler (899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nathan Marcus HaKohen Adler (13 January 1803 – 21 January 1890) (Hebrew name: Natan ben Mordechai ha-Kohen) was the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British

Aaron ibn Sargado (290 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aaron ibn Sargado or Aaron ben R. Joseph ha-Kohen (Hebrew: אהרן הכהן בן יוסף - כלף סרג'דו) was a tenth-century AD gaon (Jewish religious leader) in Pumbedita

Nachman Krochmal (698 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nachman HaKohen Krochmal (Hebrew: נחמן קְרוֹכְמַל; born in Brody, Galicia, on 17 February 1785; died at Ternopil on 31 July 1840) was a Jewish Galician

Shabbatai HaKohen (1,193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen (Hebrew: שבתי בן מאיר הכהן; 1621–1662) was a noted 17th century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the Shakh (Hebrew:

Amnon (1,254 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amnon (Hebrew: אַמְנוֹן ’Amnōn, "faithful") was, in the Hebrew Bible, the oldest son of King David and his second wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel. He was born

Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport (503 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Solomon Judah Löb HaKohen Rapoport (Hebrew: שלמה יהודה כהן רפאפורט; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar

David Cohen (rabbi) (869 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Cohen (1887–8 August 1972) (also known as "Rav Ha-Nazir," the Nazirite Rabbi) was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, kabbalist, and a disciple of Rabbi

Ahaz (2,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahaz (Hebrew: אָחָז, ʼĀḥāz, "has held"; Greek: Ἄχαζ, Ἀχάζ Akhaz; Latin: Achaz) an abbreviation of Jehoahaz II (of Judah), "Yahweh has held" (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָחָז

Shlomo Aviner (1,147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shlomo Chaim Hacohen Aviner (Hebrew: שלמה חיים הכהן אבינר, born 1943/5703 as Claude Langenauer) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He is the rosh yeshiva (dean)

Jehoshaphat (2,106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jehoshaphat (/dʒəˈhɒʃəfæt/; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; Hebrew: יְהוֹשָׁפָט, Modern: Yəhōšafaṭ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšāp̄āṭ, "Yahweh

Rahab (2,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

While the Talmud holds to that interpretation, some sources in Rabbinic literature insists that she was an "innkeeper," based on Targum Jonathan and

Amon of Judah (1,506 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amon of Judah was the fifteenth King of Judah who, according to the biblical account, succeeded his father Manasseh of Judah. Amon is most remembered for

Naaman (1,489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Naaman the Aramean (Hebrew: נַעֲמָן, romanized: Naʿmān, lit. 'pleasantness') was a commander of the armies of Hadadezer, the king of Aram-Damascus, in

Dathan (685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dathan (Hebrew: דָּתָן Dāṯān) was an Israelite mentioned in the Old Testament as a participant of the Exodus. He was a son of Eliab, the son of Pallu,

Baal Berith (834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baʿal Berith (Hebrew: בעל ברית, lit. 'Baʿal of the Covenant') and El Berith (Hebrew: אל ברית, lit. 'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped

Baal Berith (834 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baʿal Berith (Hebrew: בעל ברית, lit. 'Baʿal of the Covenant') and El Berith (Hebrew: אל ברית, lit. 'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped

Samuel ben Hofni (1,865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Samuel ben Hofni (Hebrew: שמואל בן חפני; died 1034; abbreviation: Hebrew: הרשב״ח "The Rashbaḥ") was the gaon of Sura Academy in Mesopotamia ("Babylonia")

She'ar Yashuv Cohen (2,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eliyahu Yosef She'ar-Yashuv Cohen (Hebrew: אליהו יוסף שאר ישוב כהן; November 4, 1927 – September 5, 2016) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel

Nachman Kahana (386 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nachman Kahana (also spelled Kahane) (Hebrew: רב נחמן בן רב יחזקאל שרגא כהנא) is an Israeli rabbi. Kahana was born in 1937 and raised in Brooklyn, New

Jehoash of Judah (1,491 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jehoash (Hebrew: יְהוֹאָשׁ, Yəhōʾāš, "Yah-given"; Greek: Ιωας; Latin: Ioas), also known as Joash (in King James Version), Joas (in Douay–Rheims) or Joás

Abraham Kalisker (182 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abraham HaKohen of Kalisk (1741–1810) was a prominent Chassidic rabbi of the 3rd generation of Chassidic leaders. He was a disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch

Tumah and taharah (3,059 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the laws are discussed many times in other tractates, and in later rabbinic literature. Maimonides clarifies that, in addition to all of Israel, the priests

Keri (790 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Keri (קֶרִי‎) is a Hebrew term which literally means "accident" or "mishap", and is used as a euphemism for seminal emission. The term is generally used

Ahab (2,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahab (/ˈeɪhæb/; Hebrew: אַחְאָב, Modern: ʾAḥʾav, Tiberian: ʾAḥʾāḇ; Akkadian: 𒀀𒄩𒀊𒁍 Aḫâbbu; Koinē Greek: Ἀχαάβ Achaáb; Latin: Achab) was the son and

Bethsaida (3,943 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gaulonitis. Historians have suggested that the name is also referenced in rabbinic literature under the epithet Ṣaidan (Hebrew: צַידָן). According to John 1:44

Uriah the Hittite (1,707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי‎ ʾŪrīyyā haḤītī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier

Aryeh Leib Heller (694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller (c. 1745 – 1812) (Hebrew: אריה לייב בן יוסף הכהן הלר) was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Halachist in Galicia. He was known as "the

Akhiyahu HaKohen (173 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ahijah Ha-Kohen (אחיהו הכהן) (fl. 910 CE) was a rabbi and Hebrew-language grammarian in Tiberias. He is mentioned in a genizah fragment of the Geonim era

Gerah (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

standard "sacred" shekel. A gerah is known in Aramaic, and usually in Rabbinic literature, as a ma'ah (מעה; Mishnah Hebrew pl. ma'ot "מעות" which means "coins")

Naphtali Cohen (785 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Naphtali Cohen (1649–1718), also known as Naphtali HaKohen Katz, was a Russo-German rabbi and kabalist born in Ostrowo in Ukraine. He belonged to a family

Marc B. Shapiro (1,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, theology, and rabbinic literature. Shapiro received his BA at Brandeis University and his PhD at Harvard

Savoraim (598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

authors of unattributed statements in the Gemara. Much of classical rabbinic literature generally holds that the Babylonian Talmud was redacted into more

Gamliel Rabinowitz (269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gamliel HaKohen Rabinowitz (Rappaport) is a rosh yeshiva of Shaar Hashamayim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a recognized expert in Jewish Law and

Hekhalot literature (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the rabbis, but since it seeks to stand in continuity with the Rabbinic literature, it is often pseudepigraphical. Hekhalot has examples of early alternate

Samuel Schotten (303 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shmuel Schotten HaCohen (1644 – 1 July 1719), known as the Mharsheishoch, became Rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in west Germany in 1685. Shmuel

Zadok HaKohen (870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Zadok ha-Kohen Rabinowitz of Lublin (in Hebrew: צדוק הכהן מלובלין) (Kreisburg, 1823 – Lublin, Poland, 1900), or Tzadok Hakohen or Tzadok of Lublin

Meir Schiff (591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meïr ben Jacob HaKohen Schiff, (1608–1644) (Hebrew: מאיר הכהן שיף) called the Maharam Schiff (מהר"ם שיף‎), was a German rabbi and Talmud scholar. Meïr

Zvi Yosef Resnick (1,218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Zvi (Hirsh) Yosef HaKohen Resnick (1841–1912) was a well-known orthodox Russian rabbi and Rosh yeshivah (Dean of a Talmudic Academy), also known

Bikkurim (first-fruits) (1,127 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Bikkurim (Hebrew: בכורים, /bɪˌkuːˈriːm, bɪˈkʊərɪm/), or first-fruits, are a type of sacrificial offering which was offered by ancient Israelites. In each

Avigdor Miller (1,673 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Avigdor HaKohen Miller (August 28, 1908 – April 20, 2001) was an American Haredi rabbi, author, and lecturer. He served simultaneously as a communal rabbi

Reuben ben Hoshke (198 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Reuben Hoshke HaKohen (Sofer) (died 3 April 1673) (Hebrew: אברהם ראובן הכהן סופר) was a Kabalist and rabbi of Prague. "Hoshke," his father's name, is a

Jannes and Jambres (1,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In Jewish and Christian traditions, Jannes and Jambres (Hebrew: יניס Yannis, ימבריס Yambres) are the names given to magicians mentioned in the Book of

Jannes and Jambres (1,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In Jewish and Christian traditions, Jannes and Jambres (Hebrew: יניס Yannis, ימבריס Yambres) are the names given to magicians mentioned in the Book of

Jacob ben Nissim (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Hebrew: האבק חשבון). His son and student, Nissim (referred to in later Rabbinic literature as Rabbeinu Nissim, or in Hebrew רבנו ניסים), later became the head

Tamar (daughter of David) (2,127 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tamar was a princess of Israel, the daughter of King David and sister of Absalom in 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative (2 Samuel 13)

Simcha Sheps (935 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Simcha Avraham Sheps (April 18, 1908 – November 5, 1998) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Simcha

Isaac HaKohen Rapoport (144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Isaac ben Judah Rapoport HaKohen (יצחק רפפורט הכהן) was an 18th-century rabbi who lived in Ottoman Empire; born and died at Jerusalem, a pupil of rabbi

High Priest of Israel (2,855 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (Hebrew: כהן גדול, romanized: Kohen Gadol, lit. 'great priest'; Aramaic: Kahana Rabba) was the head of the Israelite

Sholom Schwadron (2,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sholom Mordechai Hakohen Schwadron (Hebrew: הרב שלום מרדכי הכהן שבדרון‎) (1912–21 December 1997) was a Haredi rabbi and orator. He was known as the "Maggid

Shlomo HaKohen (Vilna) (349 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Shlomo HaKohen (Hebrew: שלמה הכהן; 1828–1905) was an Av Beis Din (chief justice of a rabbinical court) and posek (decider of Jewish law) of Vilna. He was

Asa of Judah (2,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Asa (/ˈeɪsə/; Hebrew: אָסָא‎, Modern: ʾAsaʾ, Tiberian: ʾĀsāʾ; Greek: Ασά; Latin: Asa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the Kingdom

Ammon (3,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ammon (Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ʻAmān; Hebrew: עַמּוֹן ʻAmmōn; Arabic: عمّون, romanized: ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of

Tribe of Benjamin (3,676 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִן, Modern: Bīnyamīn, Tiberian: Bīnyāmīn) was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe

Yehuda Heller Kahana (172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yehuda Heller-Kahane (2 December 1743 – 22 April 1819) (Hebrew: יהודה בן יוסף הכהן) was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Halachist in Galicia. He was known as "the

Bathsheba (3,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bathsheba (/bæθˈʃiːbə/ or /ˈbæθʃɪbə/; Hebrew: בַּת־שֶׁבַע, Baṯ-šeḇaʿ, Bat-Sheva or Batsheva, "daughter of Sheba" or "daughter of the oath") was the wife

Book of Ruth (2,370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

converts, as is evidenced by the considerable presence of Boaz in rabbinic literature. It also functions liturgically, as it is read during the Jewish

Malachi ben Jacob HaKohen (636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malachi ben Jacob ha-Kohen (also known as the Yad Malachi) Montefoscoli (1695/1700? – 1772) was a renowned Talmudist, methodologist, and one of the greatest

Absalom (3,937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Absalom (Hebrew: אַבְשָׁלוֹם‎ ʾAḇšālōm, "father of peace") was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

Joseph ben Mordechai Gershon (216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph ben Mordechai Gershon HaKohen Ka"tz (1510 in Kraków – 1591) was a kohen, a rabbi and Talmudist, who began his studies in the Talmud at an early

Abraham Judah ha-Kohen Schwartz (242 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abraham Judah ha-Kohen Schwartz (Hungarian: Schwartz Ábrahám; 1824–1883), also known by his responsa as the Kol Aryeh, was one of the leading Hungarian

Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen (563 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen (ibn Matkah) (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה בְּן שְׁלֹמֹה הכֹּהֵן‬ (אִבְּן מתקה); c. 1215–c. 1274) was a thirteenth-century Spanish Jewish

Abraham Isaac Kook (6,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abraham Isaac Kook (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, and also known by the Hebrew-language

Kalenda (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an ancient pagan festival originated by Adam, according to Jewish rabbinic literature Calends, or Kalendae, Kalenda, Kalendas, the first days of the month

Shlomo HaKohen of Greece (107 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shlomo Hacohen of Greece may refer to two people: Rabbi Shlomo Hacohen author of responsa, published Salonika-Venice 1586–1730. Another Shlomo Hacohen

Yechiel Michel ben Eliezer (531 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Yechiel Michel ben Eliezer ha-Kohen (Hebrew: יְחִיאֵל מִיכל בֵּן אֱלִיעֶזֶר הָכֹּהֵן; died 10 or 12 June 1648), also known as the Martyr of Nemirov, was

Solomon Hanau (655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Solomon Zalman ben Judah Loeb ha-Kohen Hanau (later known by the acronym Raza"h or Zalman Hanau or Zalman Henna (1687–1746), was a German Jewish expert

Nathan ben Isaac HaBabli (241 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nathan ben Isaac ha-Kohen ha-Babli was a Babylonian Jewish historian of the 10th century. He was the author of a history of the exilarchate that gives

Priestly court (1,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generally the legal authority for non-Temple matters. According to rabbinic literature, the priestly court consisted solely of priests of verified patrilineal

Zavah (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In Jewish ritual law, a zavah (Hebrew זבה, lit. "one who[se body] flows") is a woman who has had vaginal blood discharges not during the usually anticipated

Zavah (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In Jewish ritual law, a zavah (Hebrew זבה, lit. "one who[se body] flows") is a woman who has had vaginal blood discharges not during the usually anticipated

Eastern Sephardim (1,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Portugal and were returning to Judaism. It wasn't until the 1730s that rabbinic literature started to be published in Ladino. Through the 19th century, Ladino

Tal Ilan (1,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

history in Judaism, and lexicographer. She is known for her work in rabbinic literature, the history of ancient Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish

Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas (740 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas (fl. 1370s) (Hebrew: משה הכהן) was a Spanish Jewish controversialist of the fourteenth century. An attempt was made to convert

Mnachem Risikoff (3,767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mnachem (Mendel) HaKohen Risikoff (1866–July 28, 1960), was an orthodox rabbi in Russia and the United States, and a prolific author of scholarly works

Shlomo HaKohen of Lissa (111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shlomo HaKohen ben Eliezer of Lissa (18th century) was a rabbi and biblical commentator. He wrote the supercommentary Avi Ezer on the commentary of Abraham

Raphael Cohen (886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Raphael ben Jekuthiel Susskind Cohen, in German Rafael ben Jekutiel Süsskind Kohen (Lithuania, 4 November 1722 – Altona, 11 November 1803), a kohen

Jonathan ben David ha-Cohen (221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen of Lunel (c. 1135 – after 1210) was a leading French tosafist. He was also known as Jonathan of Lunel, and was one of

Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen (1,704 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hayyim Yitzhak HaCohen Bloch (Hebrew: חיים יצחק בלוך הכהן; 1864–1948) was a prominent Lithuanian born rabbi. In 1922 he left Latvia for the United States

Shaul Kohen (298 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Shaul HaKohen Kohen (born in Djerba, Tunisia – died 1848, also in Djerba) was a Mizrahi Jewish rabbi, and writer of multiple rabbinic literary works. In

Tikkun olam (4,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of action intended to repair and improve the world. In classical rabbinic literature, the phrase referred to legal enactments intended to preserve the

Kamsa and Bar Kamsa (705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bar Kamtza) (Hebrew: קמצא ובר קמצא) is the most famous midrash (rabbinic literature) regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the

Joseph ha-Kohen (1,642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph ben Joshua ben Meïr ha-Kohen (also HaKohen, Hakohen or Hacohen; 20 December 1496 in Avignon – 1575 or shortly thereafter in Genoa) was a Jewish

Nehushtan (2,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the biblical Books of Kings (2 Kings 18:4; written c. 550 BC), the Nehushtan (/nəˈhʊʃtən/; Hebrew: נְחֻשְׁתָּן Nəḥuštān [nəħuʃtaːn]) is the bronze image

Saturna (92 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an ancient pagan festival originated by Adam, according to Jewish rabbinic literature Saturna (comics), Rebirth version of DC Comics supervillain Eviless

Bension Kohen (224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Bension Kohen or haKohen (Hebrew: בֶּנְצִיּוֹן הַכֹּהֵן; born in Djerba, Tunisia, died 1999 in Jerusalem) was a writer of literature on Hebrew grammar

Abraham ben Samuel Cohen of Lask (454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abraham ben Yechiel-Michel Catz Ha Cohen of Lask was a Jewish ascetic who flourished at the end of the 18th century. He went to live at Jerusalem in 1785

Moshe Hacohen (961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Moshe Kalphon Hacohen, (1874–1950), also known by his acronym Ramach, was one of the leading rabbis of the island of Djerba, Tunisia, during the 20th century

Clopas (982 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

evidenced on Aramaic panels of the period, and the name Hilphai in rabbinic literature. In the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, which was probably written in the

Yalta (Talmudic character) (434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of the Jewish exilarch in Babylon and considers her depiction in rabbinic literature as a strong-willed, free-spirited woman. Yalta is the second most-mentioned

David C. Kraemer (351 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Babylonian Talmud (Oxford, 1990) Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (Oxford, 1995) Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature (Oxford

Elijah ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen (546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rabbi Eliyahu ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen ha-Itamari (1640-1729) was a Dayan, almoner and preacher. He was born in Smyrna, where he was educated by R

Melchizedek (6,031 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the Bible, Melchizedek (/mɛlˈkɪzədɛk/, Biblical Hebrew: מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק‎, romanized: malkī-ṣeḏeq, 'king of righteousness,' 'my king is righteousness

Pinchas HaKohen Lintup (1,687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pinchas HaKohen Lintup or Pinhas HaKohen Lintop (Hebrew: הרב פנחס הכהן לינטופ) (10 October 1851 – 1 June 1924) was a Religious Zionist Lithuanian rabbi

Jacob Neusner bibliography (16,705 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the History of Judaism. Now: Lanham, University Press of America. Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament. What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know. Philadelphia

Nazirite (5,090 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite (Hebrew: נָזִיר Nāzīr) is a man or woman who voluntarily took a vow which is described in Numbers 6:1–21

Shaving in Judaism (2,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Judaism prohibits shaving with a razor on the basis of a rabbinic interpretation of Leviticus 19:27, which states, "Ye shall not round the corners of your

Aryeh Cohen (800 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Cohen is an American rabbi and scholar who serves as a professor of Rabbinic Literature at American Jewish University. His scholarship focuses on the Talmud

Hebrew riddles (2,274 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

p. 127). Galit Hasan-Rokem, Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature, trans. by Batya Stein (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)

Charlotte Fonrobert (424 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(Stanford University). She also co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature, with Martin Jaffee (University of Washington). It contains, among

Robert Daum (295 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

of Iona Pacific Inter-religious Centre and Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Jewish Thought at Vancouver School of Theology. Daum earned a

Hezekiah (7,156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hezekiah (/ˌhɛzɪˈkaɪ.ə/; Biblical Hebrew: חִזְקִיָּהוּ‎, romanized: Ḥīzqīyyāhū), or Ezekias (born c. 741 BCE, sole ruler c. 716/15–687/86), was the son

Jerusalem school hypothesis (1,501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gospels, that ancient Jewish Culture, significantly preserved in Rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls is carefully engaged in the study of the

Avraham Steinberg (1,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Council on Bioethics. In 1999 he won the Israel Prize for original Rabbinic literature for his 7-volume Encyclopedia Hilchatit Refuit in Hebrew - the most

Priestly Blessing (4,511 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

benediction (Hebrew: ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands (Hebrew nesiat kapayim), rising to the platform

Ordeal of the bitter water (3,633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the Hebrew Bible, the ordeal of the bitter water was a Jewish trial by ordeal administered by a priest in the tabernacle to a wife whose husband suspected

Fallen angel (10,130 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fallen angels are angels who were expelled from Heaven. The literal term "fallen angel" does not appear in any Abrahamic religious texts, but is used to

Joab (679 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

as a man he was imperious, revengeful, and unscrupulous". Joab in Rabbinic Literature This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public

Bücherei des Schocken Verlag (711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conception of Judaism as a religious civilisation that spans the Bible, rabbinic literature, medieval and modern Hebrew poetry, philosophy and mysticism, folklore

Abraham's family tree (648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

alternative tradition holds that she was Abraham's niece (see Sarah#In rabbinic literature). Genesis 11:27–29 Genesis 16:15 Uz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash

Judah Gedalia (1,090 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

המגילות ארנון עצמון and Arnon Atzmon Sidra: A Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature /סידרא: כתב-עת לחקר ספרות התורה שבעל-פה Vol. כז/כח (תשע"ג / 2013)

Akdamut (1,753 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

new translation and commentary anthologized from the traditional Rabbinic literature (1978, Brooklyn, Mesorah Pub'ns) intro., pages xv–xvi. Scherman,

Yeshiva Gedola of Carteret (958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

portions. The first half of the day is focused on Talmudic texts and rabbinic literature, mussar (Jewish ethical literature) and practical halacha (Jewish

Jewish folklore (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Talmuds and Midrash. Ginzberg had an encyclopedic knowledge of all rabbinic literature, and his masterwork included a massive array of aggadot. However

Christine Hayes (1,178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

historical, literary, legal, and philosophical topics in biblical and rabbinic literature. Her second book, Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage

Nof Ayalon (196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

administration of Yeshivat Sha'alvim. Rachelle Fraenkel, teacher of rabbinic literature, yoetzet halakhah Matanyahu Englman, State Comptroller and Ombudsman

Miriam Shapira-Luria (468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-0-8276-0723-1. Brayer, Menachem Mendl (1986). The Jewish Woman in Rabbinic literature, Volume 1. Ktav Publishing House. pp. 104, 113. ISBN 978-0-88125-072-5

Biriyya (1,123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Haparchi, however, thought the village to have been the Beri of rabbinic literature. In the 1596 tax record, Biriyya was a village in the nahiya of Jira

Names for books of Jewish and Christian scripture (626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

independent attempt to codify the oral law. Braitot – A genre of rabbinic literature from the same time period as the Mishnah and Tosefta that no longer

Twersky (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

leader of Skverer Hasidim Isadore Twersky (1930–1997) scholar of Rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy Mayer Twersky (born 1960), rosh yeshiva (dean)

Daniel Sperber (1,257 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Edition) [in Hebrew], 1994. OCLC 31267940 Magic and Folklore in Rabbinic Literature Archived 4 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Bar-Ilan University

Priestly golden head plate (731 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

The Apotropaic Potential of Ṣîṣîṯ in the Hebrew Bible and Early Rabbinic Literature". Review of Rabbinic Judaism. 21 (2): 176–201. doi:10.1163/15700704-12341342

Av (month) (761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in the best manuscripts of Targum Jonathan to Ez. 20:1, and in Rabbinic literature starting with Megillat Taanit. It is one of several months which

Matthew 1:10 (2,192 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Harran. In rabbinic literature and Christian pseudepigrapha Manasseh is accused of executing the prophet Isaiah; according to Rabbinic Literature Isaiah was

Barukh she'amar (524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

widely attributed to "David b. Judah". This line entered standard rabbinic literature through David HaLevi Segal. A nonliteral translation of the prayer

Joseph B. Soloveitchik (7,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. Rabbinic literature sometimes refers to him as הגרי"ד, short for "The great Rabbi Yosef

Jewish Koine Greek (1,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

short descriptions of redirect targets Matthew Kraus How should rabbinic literature be read in the modern world? 2006, page 214. "It is suggestive of

Yaakov Elman (227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Thought, and History His research interests centered around Talmud and rabbinic literature of nearly all periods and genres, including rabbinic theology, unfolding

Paul Billerbeck (399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

their. Paul Billerbeck as student of rabbinic literature : a description The New Testament and rabbinic literature - 2010 "On Strack's initiative Paul

Palaestina Secunda (965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centuries, as already evidenced by Josephus in the first century CE. Rabbinic literature of the Byzantine era references Galilean olive oil as well as the

Pandora (daughter of Deucalion) (286 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Meagher, p. 148; Samuel Tobias Lachs, "The Pandora-Eve Motif in Rabbinic Literature", The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp

Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (1,010 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Practising: Uses Of An Early Jewish Discourse In Matthew (7:24–27) And Rabbinic Literature". Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion

Yichus (1,071 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unchanged. The latter spelling (yud-hey-samech) appears frequently in rabbinic literature. Although the word yichus originated in Hebrew, the term is generally

Joseph ibn Habib (283 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Yosef" by Rabbi Joseph Haviva', Sidra: A Journal for the Study of Rabbinic Literature 4:112-113 [Hebrew] Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 26a Shem ha-Gedolim This article incorporates

Brad H. Young (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

similar traditions in the literature of nascent Judaism, especially rabbinic literature. It is also evident from his works that he at least considers a Hebrew

Great Assembly (3,325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accepted this identification as a matter of course. Numerous sources in rabbinic literature indicate that the Great Assembly existed in the generation of Ezra

Women and religion (5,179 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

corpus of rabbinic literature, including the Talmud), by custom, and by non-religious cultural factors. The Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature mention