Emmanuel Lévinas

male, deceased (1995)
Emmanuel Lévinas was a French philosopher and Talmudic commentator.

Rashbam

male
Rashbam is a Hebrew acronym for רבי שמואל בן מאיר (Rabbi Shmuel son of Meir) (c.1085 - c.1158). His father was Meir ben Shmuel and his mother was...
Louis Ginzberg

Louis Ginzberg

male, deceased (1953)
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died...

Tosafists

male
Tosafists were medieval rabbis who created critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud. These were collectively called Tosafot.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Joseph B. Soloveitchik

male, deceased (1993)
Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (1903 - 1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was the...
Nosson Scherman

Nosson Scherman

male
Rabbi Nosson Scherman is an American Haredi Orthodox rabbi best known as the general editor for ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications. He studied in Beth...
Gersonides

Gersonides

male, deceased (1344)
Levi ben Gershon, better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag, was a famous rabbi, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer, and Talmudist....
Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

male, deceased (2002) (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
Rabbi Dr. Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002) was an American author and rabbi. Herman Harold Potok was born in the Bronx to Jewish...
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....
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...