Daniel Sperber

Daniel Sperber

male, 69 years old
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and an expert in classical philology, history of Jewish...

Joel B. Wolowelsky

male
Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school, and an author on topics pertaining to the role of women in...

Chaim Kanievsky

male
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky is a Haredi rabbi and posek ("decisor of Jewish law") living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He is the author of several works of...
Akiva Eger

Akiva Eger

male, deceased (1837)
Rabbi Akiva Eger or Eiger (b. "11 Cheshvan 5522", d. "13 Tishei 5598" on the Hebrew Calendar), was a Jewish Talmudic scholar and influential...
Abaye

Abaye

male, deceased (339)
Abaye was a Rabbi of the Jewish Talmud who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora; born about the close of the third century; died 339 (see Talmudic...
Zalman Nechemia Goldberg

Zalman Nechemia Goldberg

male
Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg is a rabbi, posek, and Rosh Yeshiva in Israel. The scion of a Lithuanian Jewish family, Rabbi Goldberg is also a...
Yair Bacharach

Yair Bacharach

male, deceased (1702)
Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach was a German rabbi, initially in Koblenz and remainder of his life in Worms and Metz. His grandmother Chava was a...
Jose ben Akabya

Jose ben Akabya

male
Jose ben Aqabya (Heb. Yose ben Aqabya or Yose ben Yakov; Aram. Issi bar Akiba) was a rabbi and Tanna whose career spanned the early third century...
Chaim Hezekiah Medini

Chaim Hezekiah Medini

male, deceased (1904)
Chaim Hezekiah Medini (Hebrew: חיים חזקיה בן רפאל אליהו הלוי מדיני) also known as the Sdei Chemed - the title of his chief halakhic work - was a r...

Jose ben Yochanan

male
Jose ben Jochanan was Nasi (president) of the Sanhedrin in the second century BCE. He was a native of Jerusalem. He and Jose ben Joezer were the...