Rabbeinu Tam

Rabbeinu Tam

male, deceased (1171)
Jacob ben Meir Tam, universally known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם) was one of the Baalei Tosafos whose commentary appears in every edition...

Nahmanides

male, 815 years old
Nahmanides was a Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, Kabbalist and biblical commentator. "Nahmanides " is the common name for Moshe ben Nahman...
Abraham Ibn Ezra

Abraham Ibn Ezra

male, deceased (1167)
Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1092 or 1093-1167), was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages. Ibn Ezra...
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...
Yehuda Halevi

Yehuda Halevi

male
Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew: was a Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet. He was born in Tudela, Navarre,...
Asher ben Jehiel

Asher ben Jehiel

male, deceased (1328)
Asher ben Jehiel was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Ra...

Joseph Albo

male
Joseph Albo was a rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles of faith,...
Gersonides

Gersonides

male, deceased (1344)
Levi ben Gershon, better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag, was a famous rabbi, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer, and Talmudist....
Jacob ben Asher

Jacob ben Asher

male, deceased (1340)
Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew "Ya'akov ben Asher", (1270-ca 1340) was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often referred to as the "Baal...
Chaim Volozhin

Chaim Volozhin

male, deceased (1821)
Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner", or simply "Reb Chaim",...