Shalom Sharabi

Shalom Sharabi

male
Sar Shalom Sharabi (the Rashash). Also known as Ribbi Shalom Mizraḥi deyedi`a Sharabi. (Shar'ab, Yemen 1720 - Jerusalem 1777 (10 "shevat" 5537)) wa...
David Weiss Halivni

David Weiss Halivni

male
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is a scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor, originally of Sighet, Romania.
Henrietta Szold

Henrietta Szold

female, deceased (1945)
Henrietta Szold (December 21, 1860 - February 13, 1945) was a U.S. Jewish scholar and Zionist leader. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of...
David Cohen

David Cohen

male, deceased (1972)
Rabbi David Cohen (also known as “Rav Ha-Nazir,” The Nazirite Rabbi) was a rabbi, talmudist, philosopher, and kabbalist
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter

male, deceased (1905)
Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter, also known by the title of his Torah books as the "Sfas Emes" (שפת אמת), was born in Warsaw, Poland and died in Góra K...
Hai Gaon

Hai Gaon

male, deceased (1038)
Hai Gaon (969-1038) was one of the last "geonim" (rabbinic authorities of the early Middle Ages). He was the head of the academy at Pumbedita,...
Hillel The Elder

Hillel The Elder

male
Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious leader who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod, Augustus, and probably Jesus; he is one of...
Rabbeinu Tam

Rabbeinu Tam

male, deceased (1171)
Jacob ben Meir Tam, universally known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם) was one of the Baalei Tosafos whose commentary appears in every edition...
Akiba ben Joseph

Akiba ben Joseph

male, deceased (135)
Akiba ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva was a Judean tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd centu...
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...