Mattathias

male
Mattathias was a Jewish priest depicted in the Books of the Maccabees, and the father of Judah Maccabee, the leader of the Maccabees. Mattathias...

Isaiah Horowitz

male, deceased (1630)
Isaiah Horowitz (Hebrew: ישעיה הלוי הורוביץ; c. 1565 - March 24, 1630 / "11 Nissan 5390" on the Hebrew calendar), was a well-known rabbi and mystic...
Meir Shapiro

Meir Shapiro

male, deceased (1933)
Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapiro, (March 3, 1887 - October 27, 1933), was a prominent Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva and the creator of the Daf Yomi, a...
Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

male, deceased (1609)
Judah Lew ben Bezalel ("Judah Loew son of Bezalel", also written as Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai [or Loew], 1525 - 17 September 1609 or 18 Elul 5369...

Shlomo Halberstam

male, deceased (1905)
Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847-1905) was a Hasidic Rebbe, founder of the Hasidic dynasty of Bobov. He was the son of Rabbi Myer Noson Halberstam...
Akiva Eger

Akiva Eger

male, deceased (1837)
Rabbi Akiva Eger or Eiger (b. "11 Cheshvan 5522", d. "13 Tishei 5598" on the Hebrew Calendar), was a Jewish Talmudic scholar and influential...

Eber

male
Eber In some translations of the New Testament, he is referred to once as Heber ; however, he should not be confused with the Heber of the Old...
David Tebele Scheuer

David Tebele Scheuer

male
Rabbi David Tebele Scheuer was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1712. He was one of the outstanding students of the "Shev Yaakov", Rabbi Jacob Cohen in...
Aharon Megged

Aharon Megged

male, 89 years old
Aharon Megged (born 1920; Hebrew year 5680) is an Israeli author and playwright. Aharon Megged was born in 1920 in Poland, and in 1926 immigrated...

Mechel Scheuer

male
Rabbi Mechel Scheuer was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1739 to his father Rabbi David Tebele Scheuer. He led his father's Yeshiva in Mainz as its...