Isaac Luria

Isaac Luria

male, deceased (1572)
Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Jewish mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed: while his literary contribution...
Shmuel Eliyahu

Shmuel Eliyahu

male
Shmuel Eliyahu is the Chief Rabbi of Safed in Israel.
Moshe Alshich

Moshe Alshich

male, deceased (1593)
Rabbi Moshe Alshich (or Alshech, known as the "Alshich Hakadosh (the Holy)", was a prominent Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator in the latter...
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

male, deceased (1570)
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero or Moshe Cordevero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו) known by the acronym the Ramak (רמ"ק), was one of the most prominent schol...
Menachem Mendel Of Vitebsk

Menachem Mendel Of Vitebsk

male
Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (1730 - 1788) was an early leader of Hasidic Judaism. Part of the third generation of Hasidic leaders, he was the...
Jacob Berab

Jacob Berab

male, deceased (1546)
Jacob Berab, also Jacob Berav, Yaakov Berav, Yaakov Bei Rav, Talmudist and rabbi; born at Moqueda near Toledo, Spain, in 1474; died at Safed April...
Esther Ofarim

Esther Ofarim

female, 68 years old
Esther Ofarim (born Esther Zaied, 13 June 1941 in Safed) is an Israeli female vocalist. She met Abi Ofarim, a guitarist and dancer, in 1959 and...

Luzzatto

male
Luzzatto or Luzzatti was a family of Italian-Jewish Talmudic scholars, whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth...
Eliyahu de Vidas

Eliyahu de Vidas

male, deceased (1592)
Eliyahu di Vidas (1518-1592) was a medieval rabbi. He was a disciple of Rabbis Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as the "Ramak") and Isaac Luria. di...
Alexander Kohut

Alexander Kohut

male, deceased (1894)
Alexander Kohut (April 22, 1842, Felegyhaza, Hungary - May 25, 1894, New York) was a rabbi and orientalist. He belonged to a family of rabbis, the...