Other Jewish thinkers, such as Nahmanides, Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, and Jacob Emden, strongly object to the idea that concubines should be forbidden.

The heresies of Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) distorted Lurianic Kabbalah and led to the Jacob Emden # Emden-Eybeschütz controversy | Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy.

Two authoritative versions of the Ashkenazi siddur were those of Shabbetai Sofer in the 16th century and Seligman Baer in the 19th century ; siddurim have also been published reflecting the views of Jacob Emden and the Vilna Gaon.

Debate continued over the generations ; Delmedigo's arguments were echoed by Leon of Modena ( d. 1648 ) in his Ari Nohem, and a work devoted to the criticism of the Zohar, Miṭpaḥat Sefarim, was written by Jacob Emden ( d. 1776 ), who, waging war against the remaining adherents of the Sabbatai Zevi movement ( in which Zevi, a false messiah and Jewish apostate, cited Messianic prophecies from the Zohar as proof of his legitimacy ), endeavored to show that the book on which Zevi based his doctrines was a forgery.

* March 4 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist ( d. 1940 )

The Emden-Eybeschutz controversy was a serious rabbinical disputation with wider political ramifications in Europe that followed the accusations by Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) who was a fierce opponent of the Sabbateans, against Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz ( 1690 – 1764 ) whom he accused of being a secret Sabbatean.

His son Jacob Emden served as rabbi in Emden and followed in his father's footsteps in combating the Sabbatean movement.

Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) was Talmudic scholar and leading opponent of the Sabbatians.

Rabbi Jacob Emden was a student of his father Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi a Rabbi in Amsterdam.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on Gentile: Gentiles May Not Be Taught the Torah, Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) claimed:

* Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ), rabbi

In addition, the village of Emden, Illinois in the United States was named after Jacob Emden due to the large number of emigrants from Emden to the village in northwestern Logan County, Illinois.

Tombstone of Jacob Emden in Altona, Hamburg | Altona

Signature of Jacob Emden

Jacob Emden also known as Ya ' avetz, ( b. June 4, 1697, Altona-d. April 19, 1776, Altona ), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement.

* Jacob Israel Emden ( Danish rabbi )

Among other matters considered was the famous dispute between the rabbis Jacob Emden and Jonathan Eybeschutz over the Shabbethaian movement, resulting in the latter's acquittal on the charge of heresy.

In 1755, when the Gaon was thirty-five, Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz, then sixty-five years old, applied to him for an examination of and decision concerning his amulets, which were a subject of discord between himself and Rabbi Jacob Emden.

Rabbis Jacob ben Meir ( Rabbeinu Tam ) ( 12th C .), Jehiel Heilprin ( 17th C .) and Jacob Emden ( 18th C .) support this view.

Among these are Jacob Emden, Moses Mendelssohn ( as well as some other religious thinkers of the Haskalah movement ), and Elijah Benamozegh.

Sir John Jacob became the colonel, and it was as Jacob's Regiment of Foot that they returned to England at the end of the war in 1697.

Liepmann had the following children by his first marriage: Naphtali Hirz ( died 1709 ), who became president of the congregation ; Moses Jacob ( died 1697 ), praised as a Talmudic scholar and philanthropist ; Gumpert and Isaac, who, in 1721, were accused of an attempt at fraudulent bankruptcy, in consequence of which they were compelled to leave Hanover ( 1726 ).

* Jacob Gronovius, ‘ Scylacis Periplus maris Mediterranei ’, in Geographia Antiqua ( Leiden, 1697 )

Jean-Baptiste Plantin ( 1625 – 1697 ) wrote his description of Switzerland in Latin, Helvetia nova et antiqua ( 1656 ), but Johann Jacob Wagner's ( 1641 – 1695 ) guide to Switzerland is in German, despite its titles Inder memorabilium Helvetiae ( 1684 ) and Mercurius Helveticus ( 1688 ), though he issued his scientific description of his native land in Latin, Historia naturalis Helvetiae curiosa ( 1680 ).

The earliest are dated 1697 ( Capture of Azov ) and 1703 ( for the early victories of Boris Sheremetev, Anikita Repnin and Jacob Bruce in Great Northern War ).

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

* 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam.

* 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1955 – Jacob Lew, American politician, 25th White House Chief of Staff

* 1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.

* 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer ( d. 1553 )

* 1996 – Jacob Latimore, American singer and actor

* 1978 – Jacob Burns, Australian footballer

* 1876 – Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher and politician ( d. 1958 )

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( 1663 – 1736 ) by Jacob van Schuppen.

* Project Gutenberg's The Balkan Wars: 1912 – 1913, by Jacob Gould Schurman

Hans ' great-great grandson, David Jacob Eisenhower ( 1863 – 1942 ), was Dwight's father, and was a college-educated engineer, despite his own father Jacob's urging to stay on the family farm.

* 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1705 )

Edvard Munch was related to painter Jacob Munch ( 1776 – 1839 ) and historian Peter Andreas Munch ( 1810 – 1863 ).

* 1973 – Jacob M. Appel, American bioethicist

* 1761 – Jacob Kimball, Jr., American composer ( d. 1826 )

* 1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch pilot ( d. 1977 )

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).