the Alter of Slabodka. Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher was born in Halusk, Belarus c. 1875 to R' Yosef Chaim and Esther Leah Sher. After completing cheder, he...
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the Hebron Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher. Rabbi Sher was succeeded by his son-in-law, Rabbi Mordechai Shulman who...
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Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
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Chasman served as mashgiachs. In Lithuania, Finkel's son-in-law Yitzchak Isaac Sher became rosh yeshiva, with Ber Hirsch Heller and Grodzinski serving...
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Chaim Rabinowitz Rabbi Shmuel Leib Svei (father of Rabbi Elya Svei) Yitzchak Isaac Sher#Slabodka Kollel "Kovno Kollel". Spectroom.com. The Kovno Kollel also...
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David ascribed to Yitzchak Nappaha the calculation of the Rabbinite calendar. Karaite tradition, borrowed from the Rabbanites, credits Isaac with declaring...
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Yitzchak Hutner (Hebrew: יצחק הוטנר; 1906 – November 28, 1980), also known as Isaac Hutner, was an American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean). Originally...
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Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon the Great, (Hebrew: שמעון בן יצחק; c. 950 - c. 1020) was...
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Naples, where he died in 1494. Arama is the author of Aḳedat Yitzchaḳ (Binding of Isaac), a lengthy philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch, homiletic...
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Shimon Schneerson [he] [died 2001] Elazar Menachem Shach [died 2001] Yitzchak Isaac Sher [died 1952] Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman [died 2017] Yochanan Sofer...
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Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...
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ben Joel HaLevi. Born in about 1115 in Mainz, Germany, his father Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi, may have been a minor Rabbi in Mainz. Through his wife, he was...
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Amram Zaks (redirect from Amram Yitzchak Zaks)
studied at the Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Isaac Sher. In 1952 he was engaged to be married with Rabbi Sher's eldest granddaughter, the daughter of his...
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Isaac the Blind (Hebrew: רַבִּי יִצְחַק סַגִּי נְהוֹר Rabbī Yīṣḥaq Saggī Nəhōr, literally "Rabbi Isaac, of much light"; c. 1160–1235 in Provence, France)...
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where they established a branch of the yeshiva in Chevron. Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher led the yeshiva in Europe until World War II. Notable mashgichim...
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Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor of Orléans (12th century) (Hebrew: יוֹסֵף בֶּן־יִצחָק בְּכוֹר־שׁוֹר) was a French tosafist, exegete, and poet who flourished...
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Yitzhak Rabin (redirect from Yitzchak Rabin)
in 1931 to a two-room apartment on Hamagid Street in Tel Aviv. Yitzhak (Isaac) Rabin grew up in Tel Aviv, where the family relocated when he was one year...
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Rashi (redirect from Solomon ben Isaac)
married Meir ben Samuel; their four sons were Shmuel (Rashbam; born 1080), Yitzchak (Rivam; born 1090), Jacob (Rabbeinu Tam; born 1100), and Shlomo the Grammarian...
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rabbi and served as a dayan of the London Beth Din. Shmuel Yitzchak (English: Samuel Isaac) Hillman was born in Kovno, Lithuania, the son of Paya Rivka...
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Crescas, (Or Hashem), 14th century Talmudist and philosopher Isaac Lattes (Toledot Yitzchak), 14th-century French chronicler. Immanuel of Rome, 14th century...
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Rabbi Isaac Tyrnau (יצחק אייזיק מטירנא or יצחק טירנאו; also Isaak Tyrnau) was an Austrian (or Hungarian) rabbi, born in the late 14th century and active...
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responsibilities to him, and the rosh yeshiva duties to Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Sher, and he moved to Hebron to lead the yeshiva there together with Rabbi...
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movement. Main theorist of Mitnagdism in his Nefesh HaHayim 1749–1821 Yitzchak Eizik Chaver Shlomo Elyashiv (Baal HaLeshem, after his major work) Lithuania...
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Yihya Yitzhak Halevi (redirect from Yichya Yitzchak Halevi)
court in Sana'a by the chief rabbi of Ottoman Palestine, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Many of the court documents and responsa originating from Sana'a during...
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"ISAAC BEN ELEAZAR HA-LEVI - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17. For the partial collection of Rabbi Yitzchak Ben...
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sons were Rabbi Yitzchak and Rabbi Eliezer. His daughter married Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre. His grandson was Rabbi Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon. In...
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author of Tzeror HaChaim. His foremost mentor of Hasidism was Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Eichenstein of Ziditshov. Eichenstein is to have said: "I don't know...
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Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Aboab (Hebrew: רבי יצחק בן אברהם אבוהב; fl. 1300) also known by his magnum opus, Menorat ha-Maor, was an early 14th century Spanish...
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Herzog grew up in London. She was the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman, who invited Belfast Rabbi Isaac Herzog (Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog) to his home...
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Isaac HaLevi Asir HaTikvah (Hebrew: הר״ר יצחק הלוי אסיר התקוה) (died c. 1377), also known as Isaac of Beilstein, was an important 14th-century Ashkenazi...
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