• Rabbi Nehemiah was a rabbi who lived circa 150 AD (fourth generation of tannaim). He was one of the great students of Rabbi Akiva, and one of the rabbis...
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  • actor Nehemiah Pritchett (born 2001), American football player Nehemiah Shelton (born 1999), American football player Rabbi Nehemiah, a Rabbi who lived...
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    Akiva's school, notably Rabbi Meir, Judah bar Ilai, Simeon bar Yochai, Jose ben Halafta, Eleazar ben Shammua, and Rabbi Nehemiah. Besides these, Akiva had...
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  • Tannaim (redirect from Mishnah rabbis)
    Yavne, Rabbi Meir, Shimon bar Yochai (who, according to traditional lore, wrote the Zohar), Jose ben Halafta, Yehuda ben Ilai and Rabbi Nehemiah Fifth...
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    naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles". Rabbi Nehemiah Hayyun supports the idea that the fruit was a fig, as it was from fig...
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  • that π is irrational Proof that 22/7 exceeds π Proof of Wallis product Rabbi Nehemiah Radian Ramanujan–Sato series Rhind Mathematical Papyrus Salamin–Brent...
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    Similarly, Rabbi Judah and Rabbi Nehemiah differed in interpreting the words "Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations", in Genesis 6:9. Rabbi Judah...
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    Yaakov Aryeh Alter (category Israeli Hasidic rabbis)
    to Rabbi Simcha Bunim Alter, also known as the Lev Simcha, who later became the sixth Gerrer Rebbe, and Yuta Henya, daughter of Rabbi Nehemiah Alter...
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    Zvi Thau (redirect from Rabbi Zvi Thau)
    daughter. His eldest son, Rabbi Mordechai (Moti), heads the yeshiva high school "Shalom Banayich" in Jerusalem. His son Rabbi Nehemiah is a lecturer in the...
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    Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre...
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    Rabbi Moshe Nehemiah Kahanov (1817 – 1883) was a rabbi and Jerusalem Talmudist from the Russian Empire inside of what is now Belarus. Toward the end of...
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  • Johanan (name) (redirect from Rabbi Johanan)
    governor. Yohanan ben Yehoyada, a high priest mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah who is fourth in the line of high priests after Joshua the High Priest...
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  • Ezra, Nehemiah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, Mordechai and Zerubbabel. Among the developments in Judaism that are attributed to the rabbis of this...
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    due to the concern that the biblical text might here be inaccurate. Rabbi Nehemiah in the 2nd century argued that the text is not claiming that π equals...
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    original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013. Rashi On Genesis 3:7. Rabbi Nehemiah in the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Berachot 40a and Sanhedrin 70b. "Uncorking...
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    Rabbinic literature. Among the many explanations and comments are these: Rabbi Nehemiah explained this in his Mishnat ha-Middot (the earliest known Hebrew text...
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    pauper applied to Rabbi Nehemiah for support, Rabbi Nehemiah asked him of what his meals consisted. The pauper told Rabbi Nehemiah that he had been used...
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    merged into one. Rabbi Judah, Rabbi Nehemiah, and the Rabbis debated how to interpret the plural words "stones" in Genesis 28:11. Rabbi Judah taught that...
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  • invited to serve as rabbi of the Jewish community (Judische Gemeinde) in Frankfurt am Main. There he succeeded the late Rabbi Nehemiah Nobel (the teacher...
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  • Rabbi Jonathan (Hebrew: רבי יונתן, romanized: Rabi Yonatan) was a tanna of the 2nd century and schoolfellow of R. Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely...
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    Nehemiah Brüll (16 March 1843 in Rousínov, Moravia – 5 February 1891 in Frankfurt am Main) was a rabbi and versatile scholar. Brüll received his rabbinic-Talmudic...
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    Sabbatai Zevi (category 17th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire)
    1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was an Ottoman Jewish mystic, and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). His family origins may have been Ashkenazi...
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  • Nehorai's actual name was Nehemiah or Elazar ben Arach. Thus Meir and Nehorai are distinct people. Avot 2:8, Avot of Rabbi Natan 2:8 Haggigah 14b McGinley...
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  • Joseph Ergas (category 18th-century Italian rabbis)
    kabbalist, one of the leading critics of Nehemiah Hayyun and Sabbateanism in general. He was born in Livorno in 1685 to Rabbi Emanuel Ergas, head of the community...
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  • Chronicles 3:19) A priest, head of the House of Ezra. (Nehemiah 12:13). A chief priest (Nehemiah 12:16). One of the leading Levites in the time of Ezra...
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  • Ezra and Nehemiah which form a single unit entitled Ezra–Nehemiah. (In citations by chapter and verse, however, the Hebrew equivalents of "Nehemiah", "I Chronicles"...
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    bless. Rabbi Nehemiah said that the power of blessing granted to Abraham in Genesis 12:2 was what Abraham gave to Isaac in Genesis 25:5. But Rabbi Judah...
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  • next Shemittah year arrives [seven years later] and they withdraw. Rabbi Nehemiah said: They required not only a reversal of words, but also a reversal...
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    Return to Zion (category Ezra–Nehemiah)
    Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. 'Zion returnees') is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible, in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah—subjugated...
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  • of Jeduthun (Nehemiah 11:17), also called Obadiah (1 Chronicles 9:16). He was the son of Shammua and served in Jerusalem under Nehemiah. Where the Masoretic...
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