A number of prominent rabbis have been known by acronyms. Lists portal Lists of nicknames – nickname list articles on Wikipedia Hebrew acronyms...
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Mandaean rabbis List of people called Rabbi List of rabbis known by acronyms Hezser, Catherine (1997). The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman...
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to a lexicon of many hundreds, including every type of word and extending to proper nouns: almost all Medieval rabbis are known by acronyms like Rashi and...
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Abraham Isaac Kook (redirect from Rabbi Kook)
secular "moshavot" (settlements) in Samaria and Galilee. Known as the "Journey of the Rabbis" the rabbis' goal was to strengthen Shabbat observance, Torah education...
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the title of rabbi. Only a small percentage of rabbis earn the yadin yadin ordination. Although not strictly necessary, many Orthodox rabbis hold that...
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identical to those in the other lists of acronyms. In fact, a work written in Hebrew may have Aramaic acronyms interspersed throughout (ex. Tanya), much...
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Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (redirect from Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn)
small number of his newly trained rabbis to other cities - a trend later emulated and amplified by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel...
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Judah Loew ben Bezalel (redirect from Rabbi Löw)
also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of "Moreinu...
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Hebrew Bible (redirect from Nach (Bible acronym))
scholars believe there was no such authoritative council of rabbis. Between 70 and 100 CE, rabbis debated whether certain books "make the hands unclean"...
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Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (redirect from Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato)
1746 (26 Iyar 5506)), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL, רמח"ל), was a prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher...
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Chabad (redirect from List of Lubavitcher rebbes)
caters to secularized Jews. Founded in 1775 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the name "Chabad" (חב״ד) is an acronym formed from the three Hebrew words—Chokmah...
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Asher ben Jehiel (redirect from Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel)
rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Rabbi Asher” or by the Hebrew acronym...
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David Kimhi (redirect from Rabbi David Kimhi)
or Qimḥi) (1160–1235), also known by the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רַדָּ״ק) (Rabbi David Kimhi), was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher...
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Shlomo ibn Aderet (redirect from Rashba (rabbi))
(Hebrew: רשב״א), the Hebrew acronym of his title and name: Rabbi Shlomo ben Avraham. Aderet was born in Barcelona, Crown of Aragon, in 1235. He became...
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Jacob ben Asher (redirect from Rabbi Jacob ben Asher)
were also rabbis of different communities in Iberia. He lived in abject poverty most of his life, and according to the Sephardic Community of Chios, is...
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Kosher foods (redirect from List of kosher foods)
the source of individual items derived from gelatin, many Orthodox rabbis regard it as generally being non-kosher. However, Conservative rabbis and several...
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Women rabbis and Torah scholars are individual Jewish women who are recognized for their studies of the Jewish religious tradition and often combine their...
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Yeshu (category Criticism of Christianity)
this story as a rebuke to overly harsh rabbis. Boyarin suggests that the rabbis were well aware of Christian views of the Pharisees and that this story acknowledges...
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Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty (redirect from Rabbi Soloveitchik)
rabbis of Brisk, and each in turn was known as "the Brisker Rov". Today, Brisk refers to several yeshivas in Israel and the United States founded by members...
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Russian patronymic of his father Baruch, and by a variety of other titles and acronyms including "Baal HaTanya VeHaShulchan Aruch'" ("Author of the Tanya and...
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Rebbe (section Relationship of Hasidim to their rebbe)
also served as ordained rabbis serving Jewish communities. Examples of this type cited by Schachter-Shalom include Shmelke of Nikolsburg and Pinchas Horowitz...
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Abraham of Seville (c. 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly known by the Hebrew acronym Ritva, (Hebrew: ריטב"א) was a medieval rabbi and...
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Azoulay (category Surnames of Sephardic origin)
Jewish surname, common among Jews of Moroccan descent. It is assumed that the family name Azulai is an acronym of the biblical restriction on whom a...
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Vilna Gaon (redirect from Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna)
displayed extraordinary talent while still a child. By the time he was twenty years old, rabbis were submitting their most difficult halakhic problems...
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Talmud (redirect from Burning of the Talmud)
brief opinions of the rabbis debating a subject; or recording only an unattributed ruling, apparently representing a consensus view. The rabbis recorded in...
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Sabbatai Zevi (category 17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire)
leadership was suspicious of his activities and the local college of rabbis. Headed by his teacher, Joseph Escapa, they kept a watchful eye on him. When...
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of Kabbalah. Rabbinic figures in Judaism are often known after the name of their magnum opus, or as Hebrew acronyms based on their name, preceded by R...
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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (redirect from Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin)
Poland), also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, rosh yeshiva (principal) of the Volozhin...
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