Chaim Volozhin

Chaim Volozhin

male, deceased (1821)
Kletsk yeshiva, Nefesh HaChayim, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Orthodox Jewish, Telz Yeshiva, Volozhin…PirkeiAvoth
Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner", or simply "Reb Chaim",...
Yochanan Hasandlar

Yochanan Hasandlar

male, deceased (300)
Alexandria, king david, Mishnah rabbi, meron, Mishnah, Tannaim…PirkeiAvoth
Rabbi Yochanan Hasandlar (רבי יוחנן הסנדלר) was one of the main students of Rabbi Akiva and a contemporary of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. He is...

Abraham David Ben Asher Anshel Buczacz

male, deceased (1840)
Neta' Sha'ashu'im, Abraham David ben Asher Anshel Wahrman, Later Acharonim, PirkeiAvoth, Yoreh De'ah, shulchan aruch
Abraham David ben Asher Anshel Wahrman (Hebrew: אברהם דוד מבוטשאטש), was a Galician Talmudist. He began studying Talmud as a boy. When he was ten...

Yisroel Hopsztajn

male
hasidism, APT, chasidic, Avot, Congress Poland, Yisroel ben Eliezer…PirkeiAvoth
Rabbi Yisroel Hopsztajn was a chasidic leader in Poland also known as the Maggid of Kozhnitz. Rabbi Hopsztajn worked for a period of time with the...