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...
Marcus Jastrow

Marcus Jastrow

male, deceased (1903)
Marcus Mordechai Jastrow (June 5, 1829, Rogasen, Prussian Poland - October 13, 1903, Germantown, Pennsylvania) was a renowned Talmudic scholar,...

Abbahu

male
Abbahu was a Jewish Talmudist, known as an amora, who lived in the Land of Israel, of the 3rd amoraic generation (about 279-320), sometimes cited...
Rav Huna

Rav Huna

male
Rav Huna was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora of the second generation and head of the Academy of Sura; He was born...
Moses Isserles

Moses Isserles

male, deceased (1572)
Moses Isserles (or Moshe Isserlis, was a Rabbi and Talmudist, renowned for his fundamental work of "Halakha" (Jewish law), entitled "HaMapah" (lit....
David Flusser

David Flusser

male, deceased (2000)
David Flusser was the professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of...
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

male, deceased (1746)
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746 (26 "Iyar" 5506)), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL, רמח"ל), was a prominent Italian Jewish rabb...
Meir Shapiro

Meir Shapiro

male, deceased (1933)
Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapiro, (March 3, 1887 - October 27, 1933), was a prominent Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva and the creator of the Daf Yomi, a...
Jacob Frank

Jacob Frank

male, deceased (1791)
Jacob Frank was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also...

Mattathias

male
Mattathias was a Jewish priest depicted in the Books of the Maccabees, and the father of Judah Maccabee, the leader of the Maccabees. Mattathias...