Shlomo Wolbe

Shlomo Wolbe

male, deceased (2005)
Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe was a Haredi rabbi born in Berlin and died in Jerusalem. He is best known as the author of "Alei Shur" (עלי שור), a mussar book d...

Luzzatto

male
Luzzatto or Luzzatti was a family of Italian-Jewish Talmudic scholars, whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth...

Raba

male
Raba or Raba Ben Joseph Ben Hama(c. 280-352) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora. His top student was the famous...
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...
Rav Papa

Rav Papa

male, deceased (375)
Rav Papa was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia. Known as an Amora, he was a student of both Rava and Abaye. He led the Talmudical academy...

Isidore Epstein

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Dr. Isidore Epstein, an Orthodox rabbi and rabbinical scholar in England, was the longtime principal of Jews' College, London. Dr. Epstein is best...

Hosea

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Hosea (LordGreek "' = Ōsēe"') was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BCE. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish He...

Elijah

male
Elijah (also known as Elias) was a prophet in Israel in the 9th century BC. He appears in the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Mishnah, Christian Bible, and...
Amram Gaon

Amram Gaon

male, deceased (875)
Amram Gaon (Hebrew: עמרם גאון was a famous "Gaon" or head of the Jewish Talmud Academy of Sura (Persia) in the 9th century. He was the author o...
Asher ben Jehiel

Asher ben Jehiel

male, deceased (1328)
Asher ben Jehiel was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Ra...