Mandaean rabbis List of people called RabbiListofrabbisknownbyacronyms Hezser, Catherine (1997). The Social Structure of the Rabbinic Movement in Roman...
capitalize only the first letter ofacronyms, reserving all-caps styling for initialisms, writing the pronounced acronyms "Nato" and "Aids" in mixed case...
secular "moshavot" (settlements) in Samaria and Galilee. Known as the "Journey of the Rabbis" the rabbis' goal was to strengthen Shabbat observance, Torah education...
the title ofrabbi. Only a small percentage ofrabbis earn the yadin yadin ordination. Although not strictly necessary, many Orthodox rabbis hold that...
Women rabbis are individual Jewish women who have studied Jewish Law and received rabbinical ordination. Women rabbis are prominent in Progressive Jewish...
identical to those in the other lists ofacronyms. In fact, a work written in Hebrew may have Aramaic acronyms interspersed throughout (ex. Tanya), much...
scholars believe there was no such authoritative council ofrabbis. Between 70 and 100 CE, rabbis debated whether certain books "make the hands unclean"...
also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronymof "Moreinu...
small number of his newly trained rabbis to other cities - a trend later emulated and amplified by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem Mendel...
the source of individual items derived from gelatin, many Orthodox rabbis regard it as generally being non-kosher. However, Conservative rabbis and several...
caters to secularized Jews. Founded in 1775 byRabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the name "Chabad" (חב״ד) is an acronym formed from three Hebrew words—Chokhmah...
two rabbis (Meir and Nehorai) were each renamed. According to Yeshayah Berlin, Meir and Nehorai were separate rabbis. This reading is supported by several...
(Hebrew: רשב״א), the Hebrew acronymof his title and name: Rabbi Shlomo ben Avraham. Aderet was born in Barcelona, Crown of Aragon, in 1235. He became...
or Qimḥi) (1160–1235), also knownby the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רַדָּ״ק) (Rabbi David Kimhi), was a medieval rabbi, biblical commentator, philosopher...
also served as ordained rabbis serving Jewish communities. Examples of this type cited by Schachter-Shalom include Shmelke of Nikolsburg and Pinchas Horowitz...
rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Rabbi Asher” or by the Hebrew acronym...
rabbisof Brisk, and each in turn was known as "the Brisker Rov". Today, Brisk refers to several yeshivas in Israel and the United States founded by members...
were also rabbisof different communities in Iberia. He lived in abject poverty most of his life, and according to the Sephardic Community of Chios, is...
this story as a rebuke to overly harsh rabbis. Boyarin suggests that the rabbis were well aware of Christian views of the Pharisees and that this story acknowledges...
Russian patronymic of his father Baruch, and by a variety of other titles and acronyms including "Baal HaTanya VeHaShulchan Aruch'" ("Author of the Tanya and...
Israel. Founded in 1984 under the leadership ofRabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader until his...
Abraham of Seville (c. 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly knownby the Hebrew acronym Ritva, (Hebrew: ריטב"א) was a medieval rabbi and...
meaning "son of Nahman". He is also commonly knownby the Hebrew acronym רמב״ן (Ra-M-Ba-N, for Rabbeinu Mōšeh bēn-Nāḥmān, "Our Rabbi Moses son of Nahman")...
Leib" a Hebrew acronym for "Rav Shalom Ber" Hebrew acronym for Adoneinu Moreinu v'Rabeinu, a term for a Chassidic rebbe or Grand Rabbi Schneersohn, Yosef...
חֲזִית יְהוּדִית לְאוּמִּית, Hazit Yehudit LeUmit), commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym, Hayil (Hebrew: חי"ל), was a religious far-right political...
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