• 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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    branch of the Hebron Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, founded by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher. A yeshiva (/jəˈʃiːvɑː/; Hebrew: ישיבה, lit. "sitting"; pl. ישיבות‎...
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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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    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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    mashgiach together with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Chasman. In Lithuania, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Sher, son-in-law of Rabbi Finkel, would serve as rosh yeshiva, while Rabbi...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Menahem ben Helbo, 11th century French tosafist and exegete. Isaac Lattes (Toledot Yitzchak), 14th-century French chronicler. Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, 14th-century...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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  • "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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • be looking for Nachman bar Huna or Nachman bar Yaakov. Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak (Hebrew: רב נחמן בר יצחק; died 356 CE) was a Babylonian rabbi, of the fourth...
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