Rabbi Meir

Rabbi Meir

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Rabbi Meir or Reb Meir Ba'al Ha-Nes (lit. "Rabbi Meir Master of the Miracle") was a famous Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Talmud. He was...
David Bar Hayim

David Bar Hayim

male
Rabbi David Bar Hayim (born David Mandel) was born in Australia. He learned at the Merkaz Harav Kook yeshiva in Jerusalem for many years. He...
Isaac Alfasi

Isaac Alfasi

male, deceased (1103)
Sefer ha-Halachot extracts all the pertinent legal decisions from the three Talmudic orders Moed, Nashim and Nezikin as well as the tractates of...

Ravina II

male
Ravina II was a Jewish Talmudist and rabbi who, in 475 CE, together with his teacher Rav Ashi, collected and commented upon the Gemara of what...
Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

male, deceased (2006)
Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro (1917-2006) was a Rosh Yeshiva and important rabbinic figure in Israel. His father, Rabbi Aryeh Shapiro, was the son of...

Yaaqov Medan

male, 59 years old
Rabbi Yaaqov Medan (born 1950) is a co-Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, and a lecturer in Tanakh, gemara,...

Jacob ben Abraham Kahana

male, deceased (1826)
Jacob ben Abraham Kahana, rabbinical author; died in Wilna 1826. His father was rabbi at Brestowitz, government of Grodno. Jacob was the son-in-law...

Eleazer ben Shammua

male
Eleazer ben Shammua or Eleazar I was a Mishnaic teacher of the 4th generation, frequently cited in rabbinic writings without his patronymic (Ab....

Binyomin Paler

male, deceased (2000)
Rabbi Binyomin Paler (1908-August 6, 2000) was a Haredi rosh yeshiva and Talmudist who is regarded as one of those who brought the Brisk yeshivas...
Gemara Williams

Gemara Williams

26 years old
Gemara Williams (born April 30, 1983 in Oak Park, Michigan) is an American football defensive back for the New England Patriots of the National...