The famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook stated that love is the most important attribute in humanity.

Other well-known rabbis who are reincarnationists include Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Talmud scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi DovBer Pinson, Rabbi David M. Wexelman, Rabbi Zalman Schachter, and many others.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

A few instances of gematria in Arabic, Spanish and Greek, spelled with the Hebrew letters, are mentioned in the works of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia ; some Hasidic Rabbis also used it, though rarely, for Yiddish.

# According to Rabbi Jose b. Hanina, each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening prayers.

* Rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro ( 15th century ) wrote one of the most popular Mishnah commentaries.

Upon the death of the head of the Bet din, Rabbi Zerach ben Abraham, Rashi assumed the court's leadership and answered hundreds of halakhic queries.

Two of the most significant of these are the Yad Ramah by Rabbi Meir Abulafia ( uncle of the mystic Abraham Abulafia ) and Bet Habechirah by Rabbi Menahem haMeiri, commonly referred to as " Meiri ".

One modern-day scholar who is often cited as in favour of vegetarianism is the late Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the Chief Rabbi of Mandate Palestine.

18 Kislev-( 1237 )-Passing of Rabbi Abraham Maimuni

By 1523, a Karaite community, consisting of 10 families, is recorded as living in Hebron, It was from them that, in 1540, Rabbi Malkiel Ashkenazi bought a courtyard ( El Cortijo ) and the house of prayer which he converted to the Sephardi Abraham Avinu Synagogue.

* January 23 or January 28 – Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet ( b. 1092 or 1093 )

Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, stressed that the climax of the story, commanding Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, is the whole point: to put an end to the ritual of child sacrifice, which contradicts the morality of a perfect and giving ( not taking ) monotheistic God.

After leaving Germany, he first settled in southern France, and then in Toledo, Spain, where he became rabbi on the recommendation of Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Adret ( RaShBA ).

Maaseh Hoshev is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Sefer Hamispar ( The Book of Number ), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( 1090 – 1167 ).

25 Adar-( 1761 )-Death of Rabbi Abraham Gershon of Kitov

* Abraham Isaac Kook, Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine

Commentator Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the book is written as if Jeremiah not only heard as words but personally felt in his body and emotions the experience of what he prophesied:

* The Hilchot of the Rif, Rabbi Isaac Alfasi ( 1013 – 1103 ), summations of the legal material in the Talmud.

In writing the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Karo based his rulings on three authorities — Maimonides ( Rambam ), Asher ben Jehiel ( Rosh ), and Isaac Alfasi ( Rif ); he considered the Mordechai in inconclusive cases.

* Temimei Haderech (" A Guide To Jewish Religious Practice ") by Rabbi Isaac Klein with contributions from the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Although nearing ordination at the Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, he transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ), where he was ordained in 1934 and received the advanced Jewish legal degree of Hattarat Hora ’ ah under the great talmudic scholar Rabbi Professor Louis Ginzberg.

* Finding Aid for the Rabbi Isaac Klein Papers, 1925-1979.

* Images of Rabbi Isaac Klein on New York Heritage

These four are all roshei yeshiva ( i. e., rabbinic leaders ) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, the largest and most influential Modern Orthodox rabbinic program in America.

Maimonides studied Torah under his father Maimon, who had in turn studied under Rabbi Joseph ibn Migash – a student of Isaac Alfasi.

He received semikhah from Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines while on his honeymoon.

In 1915 Yeshiva College ( later Yeshiva University ) and its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary was established in New York, New York for training in an Orthodox milieu.

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.

Then he moved to Mainz, where he studied under another of his relatives, Rabbi Isaac ben Judah, the rabbinic head of Mainz and one of the leading sages of the Lorraine region straddling France and Germany.

Among those murdered in Worms were the three sons of Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, Rashi's teacher.

Hasidim, though usually ethnically Ashkenazi, usually use liturgies with varying degrees of Sephardic influence, such as Nusach Sefard and Nusach Ari, in order to follow the order of the prayers set by Rabbi Isaac Luria, often called " Ari HaKadosh ", or " The Holy Lion ".

Early commentators such as Rabbi Isaac Alfasi ( North Africa, 1013 – 1103 ) attempted to extract and determine the binding legal opinions from the vast corpus of the Talmud.

* Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen Kagan, the Chafetz Chaim

* Selected Teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook ( and others ), orot. com

* Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, ou. org

References to Rabbi Falk are therefore often via " Yehoshua Falk ben Alexander HaCohen " or " Joshua Falk ben Alexander Katz " or " Joshua Falk Katz ".

He also authored a commentary on Shev Shema ' tata, which itself is a work of novellae on the Talmud by Rabbi Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller.

In his writings, Rabbi Kook speaks of vegetarianism as an ideal, and points to the fact that Adam did not partake of the flesh of animals.

In context, Rabbi Kook makes those comments in his portrayal of the eschatological ( messianic ) era.

Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and his disciples, for their part, avoided this harsh position, but they too theologically related the Holocaust to the Jewish recognition of Zion.

His father, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ha-Cohen Kook, was a student of the Volozhin Yeshiva, the " mother of the Lithuanian yeshivas ", whereas his maternal grandfather was a member of the Kapust dynasty of the Hassidic movement.

Rabbi Kook handwriting

While Rabbi Kook is exalted as one of the most important thinkers in mainstream Religious Zionism, he was close to what is now called Chardal.

Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski: " Our friend, the gaon, our master and teacher, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, shlita "

Rav Chatzkel Abramsky: " The honored man, beloved of Hashem and his nation, the rabbi, the gaon, great and well-known, with breadth of knowledge, the glory of the generation, etc., etc., our master Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, shlita, Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel and the head of the Beis Din in the holy city of Jerusalem "

Rav Yitzchak Hutner: " The glorious honor of our master, our teacher and rabbi, the great gaon, the crown and sanctity of Israel, Maran master Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, shlita!

* Rabbi Chanan Morrison, Gold from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Weekly Torah Portion From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, Urim Publications 2006.

* Rabbi Chanan Morrison, Silver from the Land of Israel: A New Light on the Sabbath and Holidays From the Writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, Urim Publications 2010.