Avraham Danzig

Avraham Danzig

male, deceased (1820)
"Chayei Adam" deals with the laws discussed in the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch. It is divided into 224 sections - 69 dealing with...

Shabbatai Ha-Kohen

male, deceased (1662)
Shabbatai ben Meir ha-Kohen was a noted 17th Century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as "Shakh," which is an abbreviation of his most...

Chaim Ibn Attar

male, deceased (1743)
Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar was a Talmudist and kabbalist; born at Mequenez, Morocco, in 1696; died in Jerusalem July 31, 1743. He was one of the...

Hezekiah da Silva

male, deceased (1698)
Hezekiah da Silva (also Hezekiah Silva (Hebrew: חזקיה בן דוד די סילוא) was a Jewish author born at Leghorn, son-in-law of the dayan Mordecai Be...
Yaakov Reischer

Yaakov Reischer

male, deceased (1733)
Jacob ben Joseph Reischer (Bechofen) (1661-1733) was an Austrian rabbi and halakhist born at Prague. He was the son of R. Joseph, author of "Gib'ot...

Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi

male, deceased (1690)
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi was a Lithuanian rabbi. He was born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev January 3 1690. After he had studied under...

Ephraim Zalman Margolis

male, deceased (1828)
Ephraim Zalman Margolis (Hebrew: אפרים זלמן בן מנחם מרגליות) was a Galician rabbi born in Brody. He received his Talmudic education at different...
Moses Ventura

Moses Ventura

male
Moses ben Joseph Ventura was rabbi of Silistria, Bulgaria, in the latter half of the 16th century. He was educated at Jerusalem, but later settled...

David Solomon Eibenschutz

male, deceased (1812)
David Solomon Eibenschutz (Hebrew: דוד שלמה אייבשיץ) was a Russian rabbi and author, pupil of Rabbi Moses Tzvi Heller, and author of "Geon Ẓebi." H...

Aryeh Judah Leib Ben Moses Teomim

female
Aryeh Judah Leib ben Moses Teomim was a rabbi and scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries who lived in Pinczow, and later in Plotzk. He was the...