Judah ben Bava was a rabbi in the 2nd century who ordained a number of rabbis at a time when the Roman government forbade this ceremony. The penalty was...

Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Hebrew: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; between 1512 and 1526 – 17 September 1609), also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai)...

menial services for him. He was ordained by Judah ben Bava at a time when the Roman Empire forbade ordination. Judah was forced to flee Hadrian's persecution...

Judah ha-Nasi (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא‎, Yəhūḏā hanNāsīʾ‎; Yehudah HaNasi or Judah the President) or Judah I, known simply as Rebbi or Rabbi, was a...

ceremony's site would be destroyed. The line of succession was saved by Judah ben Bava, who took five students of the recently martyred Rabbi Akiva to a mountain...

ben Shammua was a student of Rabbi Akiva, but was not ordained by him due to the Hadrianic persecution. After Akiva's death, however, Judah ben Bava ordained...

ben Teradion; the interpreter of the Sanhedrin, Rabbi Huspith; Eleazar ben Shammua; Hanina ben Hakinai; Jeshbab the Scribe; Judah ben Dama; and Judah...

Mishnah. Shimon ben Gamliel, was a sage and served as the nasi of the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. (c. 10 BCE–70 CE) Judah Ben Bava, was a 2nd-century...

of Jonathan ben Eleazar and one of the most famous aggadists of his time. He was a native of the Land of Israel and may have known Judah ha-Nasi. It appears...

Judah ben Yakar (d. between 1201 and 1218) was a rabbi and talmudist. Born in Provence, he later studied under Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre in northern...

fortune in having been privileged to see Judah haNasi. According to Halevy, he was a pupil of Judah II, grandson of Judah haNasi, in whose name he transmits...

Bava Batra (also Baba Batra; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בָּבָא בַּתְרָא, romanized: bāvā baṯrā, lit. 'The Last Gate') is the third of the three Talmudic...

Jonadab ben Rechab. He was one of Rabbi Akiva's five principal pupils, called "the restorers of the Law," who were afterward ordained by Judah ben Baba....

death, Shimon was again ordained, with four other pupils of Akiva, by Judah ben Baba. The persecution of the Jews under Hadrian inspired Shimon with a...

Rabbi Judah ben Yom Tov (Hebrew: יהודה בן יום טוב) was one of the Baalei Tosafot in France, a member of Rashi's family. His father was Rabbi Yom Tov of...

mentioned as the father of three daughters. He was the father-in-law of Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon, and therefore a contemporary of Rabbeinu Tam of Rameru...

Asa) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the Kingdom of Judah and the fifth king of the House of David. Based on the Biblical chronology...

the regular material support offered to him by Judah. Yochanan also induced Judah to visit Shimon ben Lakish, who had fled from Tiberias in consequence...

According to the Talmud, Elimelch was the son of Nachshon Ben Aminadav, the Nasi of the Tribe of Judah. Regarding him and why he left the Land of Israel, Chazal...

Judah bar Ezekiel (220–299 CE) (Hebrew: יהודה בן יחזקאל); often known as Rav Yehudah, was a Babylonian amora of the 2nd generation. Judah was the most...

indebtedness to Rabbi Judah ben Pedaiah, from whom he learned a great number of legal rulings. Another of his teachers was Pinchas ben Yair, whose piety and...

Solomon ben Judah ha-Bavli was a 10th-century Jewish liturgist. In spite of the title "ha-Bavli" ("the Babylonian") given him by Rashi and others, he...

Yerushalmi Berachot v. 9a; Ḥag. 15b; Bava Kamma 117a et seq.; Bava Metziah 84a; Bava Batra 75a Job 31:15; Yerushalmi Bava Kamma 8 6c Berachot 5b; see Hiddushei...

Kelim Kamma 4:9. Her comments there are praised by Judah ben Bava. In another instance, Joshua ben Hananiah praises her intervention in a debate between...

שמעון‎, lit. Rabbi Eleazar ben [son of] Shimon) was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation, contemporary of R. Judah ha-Nasi. He was the son of R...

candle for one is a candle for a hundred. Yeiush Yevamos 34b Bava Basra 12b Sukkah 28a Bava Batra 22a Sherira Gaon (1988). The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon...

Jose ben Judah (or R. Jose son of R. Judah; Hebrew: רבי יוסי ברבי יהודה, lit. Rabbi Yossi beRabbi [son of Rabbi] Yehuda) was a rabbi who lived at the...

age; and when he blessed Judah haNasi he added the wish that Judah might live half as long as himself. The Mishnah cites few of Ben Karha's halakhic commentaries...

Gittin 67a Compare Sifre, Deut. 16 Eruvin 41a Compare Tosefta Bava Batra 2:10 with Bava Batra 56b and parallels Avot of Rabbi Natan 40 [ed. S. Schechter...

chiefly Eruvin, Yoma, Mo'ed Katan, Yevamot, Ketubbot, Kiddushin, Nedarim, Bava Kamma, and Zevaḥim. He wrote numerous responsa, some of which are quoted...