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)...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Camondo family Elijah Capsali, first Hakham Bashi (Turkish: Chief Rabbi) of the Ottoman Empire Moses Capsali, Hakham Bashi Isaac Carasso, Ottoman Jewish...

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...

(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)...

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

Hakham Ezra Dangoor (b.1848)— Chief Rabbi of Baghdad (1923-1926) in the New Synagogue of Baghdad...

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...

of Amsterdam ..., Sabbatai was eighteen years old when he was ordained a hakham." Scholem also writes, in the previous sentence: "Thomas Coenen, the Protestant...

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...

shells on Israeli settlements because it hurts "Palestinian interests". Hakham Balawi said: "... It is prohibited to launch rockets and to fire weapons...

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

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

pursued advanced studies there. Before the establishment of the Midrash, Hakham Abdallah Somekh would teach students free of charge. This was noted with...

פאור הלוי Ḥāḵām Yōsēf Fawr Hallēwī; 1934 – June 9, 2020) was a Sephardic Hakham (rabbi), teacher and scholar. He was a Rabbi in the Syrian-Jewish community...

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