- male, deceased (1640)
- Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...
- male
- Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac ben Dov Ber Krasilschikov, also known as the Gaon of Poltava, was an exceptional Talmudic scholar and author of a monumental...
- male, deceased (1668)
- Joshua ben Israel Benveniste (c. 1590-c. 1668) was the brother of Chaim Benveniste, and a disciple of Joseph Trani. He was a physician and rabbi at...
- male, deceased (1762)
- David ben Naphtali(Hirsch) Fränkel, or David Hirschel Fränkel was a German Jewish rabbi. Born in Berlin, for a time he was rabbi of Dessau. He be...
- male, deceased (1839)
- Yisroel ben Shmuel Ashkenazi of Shklov was a Talmudist, one of a group of Talmudical scholars of Shklov who were attracted to Vilna by Elijah Gaon...
- male, deceased (1913)
- Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (February 71845-1913), known by the acronym Ridvaz or Ridbaz, was a renowned rabbi, Talmudic commentator and educator....
- male
- Johanan ben Nappaha was a follower of Judah ha-Nasi, and believed it to be his duty to carry on the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud. He started a...
- male
- Rabbi Yochanan (also known as Rabbi Yochanan bar Nafcha "Rabbi Yochanan son [of the] blacksmith," Hebrew: יוחנן בר נפחא) (died c. 279) was a rabbi...
- male
- Gamaliel IV was the son of the nasi Judah II, and father of Judah III. In the Jerusalem Talmud there is a story of Gamaliel's humility, when he was...
- male
- Shimon ben Gamliel II was a Tanna of the third generation and president of the Great Sanhedrin. Shimon was a youth in Betar when the Bar Kokhba...
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