Hakham (or Chakam(i), Haham(i), Hacham(i), Hach; Hebrew: חכם, romanized: ḥāḵām, lit. 'Wise') is a term in Judaism meaning a wise or skillful man; it often...

Hakham Bashi - חכם באשי (Ottoman Turkish: حاخامباشی, Turkish: Hahambaşı, IPA: [haˈham baˈʃɯ]; Ladino: xaxam (חכם) baši; translated into French as: khakham-bachi)...

Amos Hakham (Hebrew: עמוס חכם) (1921 – 2 August 2012) was the first winner of the International Bible Contest, who went on to become a Bible scholar and...

Rabbi Shimon Hakham (Hebrew: שמעון חכם; 1843, Bukhara- 1910, Jerusalem) was a Bukharan rabbi residing in Jerusalem who promoted literacy by translating...

Yedidia Shofet (also spelled Shophet, and often referred to as Hakham Yedidia; November 14, 1908 – June 24, 2005) was the former Chief Rabbi of Iran and...

(1873–1961), ḥakham of the Lithuanian Karaite community Sima Babovich (1790–1855), ḥakham of the Crimean Karaites Mordecai Alfandari (1929–1999), Ḥakham, known...

הקראים) were: Hakham Moshe El-Kodsi (1856–1872) Hakham Shlomo Ben Afeda Ha-Kohen (1873–1875) Hakham Shabbatai Mangoubi (1876–1906) Hakham Aharon Kefeli...

The Chief Rabbi of Israel is a religious appointment that began at the time of the British Mandate in Palestine, and continued through to the State of...

The late Ḥakham Immanuel Massouda (the first Chief Karaite Ḥakham in Israel since 1948) met him shortly afterward and gave him a Ḥakham's cap (hat) as...

Ḥakham Moshe ben Yoseph Firrouz (born 1972) is an Israeli Karaite Hakham and Torah scholar (sage). He is the former Chief Ḥakham (spiritual leader) as...

Ḥayyim; Hebrew: יוסף חיים מבגדאד; or Yosef Chaim) was a leading Baghdadi hakham (Sephardi rabbi), authority on halakha (Jewish law), and Master Kabbalist...

Orthodox Jews, due to the resurgence of Orthodoxy since the mid-20th century. Hakham Also spelled Talmid Chacham.  This article incorporates text from a publication...

Sima Babovich, Russian: Сима Соломонович Бабович; 1790–1855) was a first Hakham of the Russian Crimean Karaites, one of the early figures in the Crimean...

Jacob Abendana (1630 – 12 September 1685) was hakham of London from 1680 until his death. Abendana was the eldest son of Joseph Abendana and brother to...

Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman was considered one until his death in 2017. "Hakham" (wise one) is an alternate title for rabbis (especially Sephardic ones)...

Pinchas Toledano (פנחס טולידאנו) is Hakham-Emeritus (Chief Rabbi) of Amsterdam and of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of the Netherlands. He was also the...

(רבה)‎, Rabbanit (רבנית)‎, and Maharat (מהר"ת)‎. Chief Rabbinate of Israel Hakham List of rabbis List of rabbinical schools Mashpia Posek Rav muvhak Reb (Yiddish)...

Isaac S. D. Sassoon (born 1946) is a Sephardic rabbi (hakham), scholar and educator. Currently one of the leading scholars in the Sephardic world, he was...

sourced from a verse in Isaiah 41:27. Between 1842 and 1920 the position of Hakham Bashi of Palestine was officially recognised by the Ottoman and British...

the beginning of the twentieth century by the ּּBukharian rabbi Shimon Hakham, who founded a printing press in Israel. The earliest evidence of Judeo-Persian...

revenues. The community assigned to him the title "clerical functionary" or "Ḥakham," as the usual titles, instead of the traditional "moreh tzedek" or "rabbi"...

21b–23a Shulkhan Arukh Orach Chayim 673:1 "The following is a response from Hakham Ya'aqob Menashe". Midrash.org. Retrieved 6 October 2018. "OU's Chanukah...

by Jesus and his disciples. Hakham Abraham Firkovich believed Jesus himself was actually a Karaite. Controversial hakham Seraya Shapshal said: We call...

Abdallah (Ovadia) Somekh (1813 – September 13, 1889) was an Iraqi Jewish hakham, rosh yeshiva and posek. Abdallah Somekh was born in 1813 in Baghdad to...

Simon Aghassi) was a Hakham and Kabbalist in Baghdad. He was known as HARASHBA, an acronym for Harav Rabbi Shimon Ben Aharon. Hakham Agassi was born in...

Heskel Elkebir (1740–1816). His father was Hakham Heskel, Shalma, Ezra, Shlomo-David, a student of Hakham Abdallah Somekh. In 1873 Heskel travelled to...

and friend of Rabbi Sharabi. Rabbi de lah Rozah authored the sefer Torat Hakham. Rabbi de lah Rozah lived in the 1700s, long after the Spanish expulsion...

Meir Yosef Rekhavi (born 1962) is a British born Karaite Hakham and author. Born in Leeds, England, Rekhavi came from an Orthodox Jewish family which had...

writer, satirist, educator Elijah Bashyazi (c. 1420—1490), Karaite Jewish hakham Theodore Branas, Byzantine general Nikephoros Bryennios (ethnarch), Byzantine...

the West Bank, in the State of Palestine. Built by Sephardic Jews led by Hakham Malkiel Ashkenazi in 1540, its domed structure represented the physical...