" Reacting against the blurring of theological distinctions, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits wrote that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Joseph Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, Emanuel Rackman, Eliezer Berkovits and others have written on this issue ; many of their works have been collected in a volume published by the Rabbinical Council of America: Theological and Halakhic Reflections on the Holocaust ( edited by Bernhard H. Rosenberg and Fred Heuman, Ktav / RCA, 1992 ).

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits ( 1908 – 1992 ) holds that man's free will depends on God's decision to remain hidden.

Many of Berkovits ' books will be republished by the Eliezer Berkovits Institute for Jewish Thought under the auspices of Shalem Center, Jerusalem.

* Eliezer Berkovits

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits writes that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

Some other Orthodox rabbis, many but not all of them Modern Orthodox, follow a philosophy similar to Hirsch's, including Joseph H. Hertz, Isidore Epstein, and Eliezer Berkovits.

Past members of the faculty include Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits who from 1958 until 1967 was the chairman of the department of Jewish philosophy.

The founder of Hasidism, Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), became known as the Baal Shem Tov ( the " Master of the Good Name ", abbreviated " Besht ").

Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov ( or Besht ).

* 1948 – Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler ( d. 1972 )

* 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language ( d. 1922 )

* 1760 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish rabbi ( b. 1700 )

Founded by Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov ( 1698 – 1760 ), it originated in an age of persecution of the Jewish people, when a schism existed between scholarly and common European Jews.

* 1881 – Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.

A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

* January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language ( d. 1922 )

* May 22 – Israel ben Eliezer aka Baal Shem Tov, Polish-born mystical rabbi, founder of Hasidic Judaism ( b. c. 1698 )

; 1700 – 1760: Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov, founds Hasidic Judaism, a way to approach God through meditation and fervent joy.

1125 – 1186 ), Rambam ( 1135 – 1204 ), Rabbi Eliezer ben Yoel Halevi ( ca 1140 – ca 1225 ), Rashba ( 1235 – 1310 ), Aharon Halevi of Barcelona ( b. ca 1235?

Eliezer ben Nathan ( Hebrew: אליעזר בן נתן ) of Mainz ( 1090 – 1170 ), Ra ' aven ( ראב " ן ), was a halakist and liturgical poet.

* Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook ( 1865 – 1935 ), Prof. Eliezer Segal

When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov ( 1698 – 1760 ), emerged and made his teachings and influence felt through his own disciples, many rabbinical opponents of Hasidism were suspicious that he and his Hasidim were a class of Sabbateans.

* Rabbi Shneiur Zalman of Ladi ( 1746 – 1812 ), Prof. Eliezer Segal

The term " Misnagdim " gained a common usage among Jews living in Europe as the term that referred to Ashkenazi Jews who opposed the rise and spread of early Hasidic Judaism, particularly as embodied by Hasidism's founder, Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), who was known as the Baal Shem Tov or BESHT.

Hasidic Judaism was founded by Israel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Baal Shem Tov or the Besht ( the Hebrew and Yiddish acronym of Baal Shem Tov ).

Eliezer Ben ‑ Yehuda ( ; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922 ) was a Litvak lexicographer and newspaper editor.

Until recently, Halivni was the spiritual leader of Kehilat Orach Eliezer, a congregation on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a position he had held since the congregation's foundation in 1992.

* Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer ( not before eighth century ), a Midrashic narrative of the more important events of the Pentateuch.

His main sources were the Babylonian Talmud, the complete Midrash Rabbah, the Midrash Tanhuma, and the two Pesiktot ( Pesikta De-Rav Kahana or Pesikta Rabbati ), the Midrash on Psalms, the Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, and the Targum Onkelos.

* Eliezer Don-Yehiya, The book and the sword: the nationalist Yeshivot and political radicalism in Israel, in: Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, Martin E. Marty, and R. Scott Appleby ( editors ), The Fundamentalism Project Series, Vol.

Not until its importance had been specially urged by the most influential rabbis of Poland — Mordecai Jafe, Samuel Eliezer Edels ( Maharsha ), Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz, among others, in a formal appeal issued from Posen in 1609 — was its publication undertaken.

Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.

About his parentage, legend tells that his father, Eliezer, whose wife was still living, was seized during an attack ( by the Tatars perhaps ), carried from his home in Wallachia, and sold as a slave to a prince.

Akiva probably remained in Lod ( R. H. i. 6 ), as long as Eliezer dwelt there, and then removed his own school to Bene Berak, five Roman miles from Jaffa ( Sanh.

8 ) " displease " ( Mek., Mishpatim ), which is contrary to the interpretation of Rabbi Eliezer.

" Ancient sepulchres believed to be the burial sites of rabbis were located in the village, including those of Halafta ( buried with his wife and children ), Jacob and Eliezer.

Others persons participated in these early discussion, among the Eliezer Cadenas ( ENRED ), Fidel Vienegas ( AHCIET ), Raphael Mandarino ( CGI. br ).

When Rabbi Yaakov died in 1064, Rashi continued learning in Worms for another year in the yeshiva of his relative, Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, who was also chief rabbi of Worms.

Rabbi Eliezer Silver, an Eastern European-trained rabbi, established the first office of Agudath Israel in America during the 1930s, organizing its first conference in 1939.

The fact that Eliezer was his first teacher, and the only one whom Akiva later designates as " rabbi ," is of importance in settling the date of Akiva's birth.

For the great rabbi from the Second Commonwealth period, see Eliezer ben Hurcanus.

Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler ( 1892 – 30 December 1953 ) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century.

Israel ben Eliezer, a Jewish mystical rabbi, and the founder of the Hasidic Jewish movement, one of the most important Jewish denominations, was born in Okopy in 1698.

* Eliezer Liebermann ( half of the 19th-century ), an Austrian Jewish Talmudist son of the rabbi Zeeb-Wolf of this city

* Eliezer Samson Rosenthal, 20th century Israeli Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbi and academic talmudist

Italian kabbalists, among them Behr Perlhefter, the first Maggid in the study hall of Abraham Rovigo, and Benjamin ben Eliezer ha-Kohen, rabbi of Reggio, called him to Italy about 1678, where he was very popular for a time.

While still a boy he entered the Talmud Torah of his native city, where besides Talmud, in which he was taught by Abraham Eliezer ha-Levi, chief rabbi of Trieste and a distinguished pilpulist, he studied ancient and modern languages and science under Mordechai de Cologna, Leon Vita Saraval, and Raphael Baruch Segré, whose son-in-law he later became.

* Eliezer ben Mordecai Heilprin ( 1648, Yaroslav, Galicia – 1700, Fürth ), Polish rabbi

Eliezer Löb ( b. Pfungstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse, 1837 ; d. Altona, Hamburg, January 23, 1892 ) was a German rabbi.