Moshe Alshich

Moshe Alshich

male, deceased (1593)
Rabbi Moshe Alshich (or Alshech, known as the "Alshich Hakadosh (the Holy)", was a prominent Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator in the latter...
Joseph Taitazak

Joseph Taitazak

male
Joseph ben Solomon Ṭaiṭazaḳ, also referred to by the acronym "MahaRITaTS", was a talmudic authority and kabalist who lived at Salonica in the 15th a...
Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

male, deceased (1654)
Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ben Moses ha-Levi Heller (b. Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1579; d. Kraków, September 7, 1654) was a Bohemian rabbi and l...

Elijah Ba'Al Shem Of Chelm

male, deceased (1583)
Elijah Ba'al Shem (d. 1583) was a Polish rabbi who studied under Rabbi Solomon Luria and later became the Chief Rabbi of Chelm. He was a co-signer...

Yom Tov Tzahalon

male, deceased (1611)
Yom Tov ben Moshe Tzahalon (Maharitatz (Hebrew: יום טוב בן משה צהלון) was a student of Moses di Trani and Moshe Alshich, and published a coll...
Avraham Gombiner

Avraham Gombiner

male
Abraham Abele Gombiner (Hebrew: אברהם לוי אבלה הומבינר), known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and...
Mordecai Yoffe

Mordecai Yoffe

male, deceased (1612)
Rabbi Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe (Hebrew: מרדכי בן אברהם יפה) was the author of "Levush Malkhut", a ten-volume codification of religious laws...

Kalonymus Haberkasten

male
Kalonymus Haberkasten was a rabbi and Talmudist in sixteenth century Poland. He was rosh yeshiva in Lemberg, and was later the first rabbi of the...

Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz

male, deceased (1660)
Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz was a rabbi and talmudist, probably born in Ostrog, Volhynia. He was the son of the kabbalist Isaiah Horowitz, and at an...
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca

Isaac Aboab da Fonseca

male, deceased (1693)
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (February 1st, 1605 - April 4th, 1693) was a rabbi, scholar, kabbalist and writer. In 1656, he was one of several elders...