Chaim Volozhin

Chaim Volozhin

male, deceased (1821)
Kletsk yeshiva, Nefesh HaChayim, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Orthodox Jewish, Telz Yeshiva, Volozhin…talmud
Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner", or simply "Reb Chaim",...
Elazar Meisels

Elazar Meisels

male
Jewish, rabbi, torah, state of michigan, talmud, Jewish person
Elazar Meisels is an American Orthodox rabbi and a graduate of the Telshe Rabbinical College, Chicago, Illinois, Mir Institute for Rabbinical...

Rava

male
talmud, Rabbah bar Nahmani, amora, Talmud rabbi of Babylonia, Talmudic academies in Babylonia, Pumbedita
Rava (רבא) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an amora, born in 270, and one of the most often-cited Rabbis in the Talmud. He...

Bruriah

female
Judaism and women, joshua, Tosefta, Roman era Jew, Halachah, Ten Martyr…talmud
Bruriah is one of several woman quoted as a sage in the Talmud. She was the wife of the Tanna Rabbi Meir and the daughter of Rabbi Hananiah Ben...
Bahya Ibn Paquda

Bahya Ibn Paquda

male
Jewish, rabbi, hebrew, Philosopher of Judaism, talmud, Medieval rabbi
Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda, known to Talmud scholars (in Hebrew) as the "Rabbeinu Bechaya" ("Our Rabbi Behaya"), was a Jewish philosopher and...
Denis Fahey

Denis Fahey

male, deceased (1954)
Catholic, anti-Semitic, Irish, talmud, roman catholic church, priest
Father Denis Fahey (1883-January 21 1954) was an Irish Catholic priest who wrote controversial books alleging various conspiracies against the...

Nicholas Donin

male
French, la rochelle, talmud, Jewish person, burn all available manuscripts of the Talmud, renounced Judaism
Nicholas Donin (Nicolas Donin) of La Rochelle, a Jewish convert to Christianity in early thirteenth-century Paris, is known for his role in the...
Yitzchok Hutner

Yitzchok Hutner

male, deceased (1980)
rabbi, Orthodox Judaism, Haredi rabbi in the United States, Hasidic Judaism, Haredi rabbi in Israel, Hasidim…talmud
Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was an Orthodox rabbi born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidim and non-Hasidic Lithuanian...

Nicodemus

male
Roman Catholic, John 3 16, Sanhedrin, Ramla, Jewish Encyclopedia, Harrowing of Hell…talmud
Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, who, according to the Gospel of John, showed favour to Jesus. He appears three times in the...
Yoel Sirkis

Yoel Sirkis

male, deceased (1640)
from Medzhybizh, Jerusalem Talmud, polish, talmud, Jewish person, babylonian
Bayit Chadash, Rabbi Sirkis's best known work, is a major commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" of Jacob ben Asher. The work presents and elucidates...