Menachem Elon

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Menachem Elon (born 1923), an Israeli jurist, who served as a justice on the Israeli Supreme Court (1977-1993) and its Deputy President...
Yisrael Meir Kagan

Yisrael Meir Kagan

male, deceased (1933)
Yisrael Meir (HaCohen) Kagan (Dzyatlava, February 6, 1838 - Radun, September 15, 1933) also known popularly as The Chofetz Chaim was an influential...

Eliezer Waldenberg

male, deceased (2006)
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (December 10 1915 -November 21 2006) was known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise "Tzitz...
David Novak

David Novak

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David Novak is a scholar of Jewish philosophy, law (Halakha) and ethics. He has rabbinical ordination and has trained with Catholic moral...
Shlomo Ganzfried

Shlomo Ganzfried

male, deceased (1886)
Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried was a Haredi Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha (Jewish law), the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch,...
Tamar Ross

Tamar Ross

female
Tamar Ross is a professor of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She has scholarly expertise in the thought of Abraham Isaac Kook, the modern...
Yoel Sirkis

Yoel Sirkis

male, deceased (1640)
Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...
Mordechai Breuer

Mordechai Breuer

male, deceased (2007)
Mordechai Breuer experts. He produced two editions of the Tanakh with text and formatting based on those of the Aleppo Codex (including a...
Yechiel Michel Epstein

Yechiel Michel Epstein

male, deceased (1907)
Yechiel Michel Epstein (1829-1907), often called "the "Aruch ha-Shulchan" (after his main work, Aruch HaShulchan), was a Rabbi and "posek"...

Halafta

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Halafta was a rabbi who lived in Sepphoris in the Galilee during the late first and early second century CE. He was the father of Jose ben Halafta,...