Shammai

Shammai

male, deceased (30)
Shammai (50 BCE-30 CE) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism's core work of rabbinic literature, the Mishnah....

Semicha

male
Semicha ("leaning [of the hands]"), also "semichut" ("ordination"), or "semicha lerabbanut" ("rabbinical ordination") is derived from a Hebrew word...
Elliot N. Dorff

Elliot N. Dorff

male, 66 years old
Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is a Conservative rabbi, a professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University (formerly the...
Moses Isserles

Moses Isserles

male, deceased (1572)
Moses Isserles (or Moshe Isserlis, was a Rabbi and Talmudist, renowned for his fundamental work of "Halakha" (Jewish law), entitled "HaMapah" (lit....
Joel Roth

Joel Roth

male
Joel Roth is a prominent American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism. He is a former member and...
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...
Shlomo Goren

Shlomo Goren

male, deceased (1994)
Shlomo Goren (1917-1994), was a former Orthodox Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Goren, born "Gorenchik", was born in Zambrow, Poland and...
J. David Bleich

J. David Bleich

male
Rabbi Dr. J. (Judah) David Bleich (born 1936) is an authority on Jewish law and ethics and bioethics. He is a professor of Talmud (Rosh Yeshiva) at...
Shlomo Carlebach

Shlomo Carlebach

male, deceased (1994)
Shlomo Carlebach (January 14 1925 - October 20, 1994) was a Jewish religious teacher, composer, and singer who was known as "The Singing Rabbi"...

Tarfon

male
Rabbi Tarfon or Tarphon,, a member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, who lived in the period between the destruction of the Temple (70...