Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was a Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters...

62b, rashi to the Rif at end of tractate Moed Kattan Moed Kattan 28b, see Nedarim 62b Look up the mitzvah of sanctifying the kohen in Wiktionary, the...

Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (February 6, 1838 – September 15, 1933) was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works...

domain: Solomon Schechter; Max Schloessinger (1901–1906). "Judah ben Meïr ha-Kohen Hazaken". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New...

Rabbi Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen of Lunel (c. 1135 – after 1210) was a leading French tosafist. He was also known as Jonathan of Lunel, and was one of...

a traditional text, is a verbal exchange between the kohen and the father of the child. The kohen asks the father if he prefers to keep his money or pay...

Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi (known by the abbreviation RIF) and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah...

Rabbi Avigdor HaKohen ben Elijah of Vienna (also known as Rabbi Avigdor Cohen Tsedek or Avigdor Cohen von Wien) (fl. mid-13th century) was the earliest...

(Hebrew: זְרועַ לְחָיַיִם וְקֵיבָה) of a kosher-slaughtered animal to a kohen is a positive commandment in the Hebrew Bible. The Shulchan Aruch rules...

Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen (Hebrew: "המָּרְדֳּכַי" ,רבי מרדכי בן הלל הכהן; c. 1250–1298), also known as The Mordechai or, by some Sephardic scholars...

Alexander Suslin (or Alexander Süsslein) HaKohen (died 1349) was a prominent 14th century rabbinic authority born in Erfurt, Germany, and one of the most...

Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen was one of the hachmei Provence, one of a family of scholars living at Narbonne, France (not Lunel, as David Conforte and others...

Karaimites, African-American Jews, Desi Jews, Igbo Jews, Levites (including Kohen), and Bene Ephraim, along with significant populations in the United States...

Bartolocci mistakenly identifies him with Meïr Ha-Kohen, a French scholar of the same century. Meir HaKohen fluorished at Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a Free...

Acharonic material and codes: The Mishnah Berurah of Rabbi Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen, (the "Chofetz Chaim", Poland, 1838–1933) is a commentary on the "Orach...

to someone else. Born in Metz in 960, Gershom was a student of Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir (Sir Léontin), who was one of the greatest authorities of his time...

calls for terror attacks in Russia". The Guardian. 13 October 2015. Sami Kohen (26 December 2015). "Suriye Türkmenleri dört cephede savaşıyor (Syrian Turkmen...

son, the Mitteler Rebbe, explains in a Maamor the important aspect of the Kohen bringing the Omer offering on the Mizbeach (from barley, usually used as...

v t e Rishonim North Africa Isaac Alfasi (Rif) Chananel ben Chushiel Dunash ben Labrat Zechariah Aghmati Nissim ben Jacob Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam Shemariah...

Isaac the Blind Samuel ibn Tibbon Isaac of Narbonne Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen Jonathan of Lunel France (except Provence) Rabbi Abin ha-Gadol Rashi List...

Isaac the Blind Samuel ibn Tibbon Isaac of Narbonne Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen Jonathan of Lunel France (except Provence) Rabbi Abin ha-Gadol Rashi List...

decisions largely on points of the marriage law. According to Shabbatai ha-Kohen (the "Shach"), it was "known" that Rabbi Isserlein was not answering questions...

Aruch. In his famous methodological work Yad Malachi, Malachi ben Jacob HaKohen cites a later halachic authority (Shmuel Abuhab) who reports rumors that...

community). He later married the sister of Joseph ben Mordechai Gershon Ha-Kohen. He returned to Kraków in 1549, establishing a large yeshiva where as a...

the Talmud but is rather a commentary on the Rif, given that it always starts with the text of the Rif. Some however dispute this. Rabbenu Asher's work...

with the exception of niddah and zav/zavah, and rules forbidding making a Kohen impure. These rules are still practiced in Orthodox Judaism. In Conservative...

v t e Rishonim North Africa Isaac Alfasi (Rif) Chananel ben Chushiel Dunash ben Labrat Zechariah Aghmati Nissim ben Jacob Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam Shemariah...

Sifra to Leviticus 15:19 Rashi on niddah, 32b. Megillah, ch 1: 14. Hilchot haRif, Shevu'ot 5a. Rashi on Makkoth 8b Sforno to Vayikra 15:19 Targum Jonathan...

together on the Paris Beth din. Towards the end of his life, Rabbeinu Haim Kohen, a student of Rabbeinu Tam, lived in Paris, and Rabbi Eliyahu would ask...

v t e Rishonim North Africa Isaac Alfasi (Rif) Chananel ben Chushiel Dunash ben Labrat Zechariah Aghmati Nissim ben Jacob Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam Shemariah...