Maimonides

Maimonides

male, 874 years old
Moses Maimonides and his Arabic name was أبو عمران موسى بن ميمون بن عبد الله القرطبي الإسرائيلي ("Abu Imran Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Qurtub...
Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn

male, deceased (1786)
Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 - January 4, 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah,...
Adin Steinsaltz

Adin Steinsaltz

male, 72 years old (Jerusalem, Israel)
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ) or Adin Even Yisrael (born 1937) is most commonly known for his popular commentary and translation...
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...
Isadore Twersky

Isadore Twersky

male, deceased (1997)
Isadore Twersky (a.k.a. Yitzhak Twersky) (1930-October 12, 1997) was the "Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy" at Harvard...
Shlomo Pines

Shlomo Pines

male, deceased (1990)
Shlomo Pines was a scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy, best known for his English translation of Maimonides' "Guide to the Perplexed".
Abba Mari

Abba Mari

male
Abba Mari (in full, Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph), was a French rabbi, born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century. He...
Chaim Soloveitchik

Chaim Soloveitchik

male, deceased (1918)
Chaim (Halevi) Soloveitchik, a method of highly exacting and analytical Talmudical study that focuses on precise definition/s and categorization/s...
Abd-El-Latif

Abd-El-Latif

male, deceased (1231)
Abdallatif, Abd-el-latif or Abd-Ul-Latif (1162-1231), also known as al-Baghdadi, was a celebrated physician and traveller, and one of the most...
Avraham Yaakov Finkel

Avraham Yaakov Finkel

male
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Finkel is a noted author to English Judaica literature. He is the author of 19 books including The Essential Maimonides, In My...