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 head of the Israeli Masorti movement's Vaad Halakha ( equivalent to the CJLS ), Rabbi David Golinkin, wrote the CJLS protesting its reconsideration of the traditional ban on homosexual conduct.

Today ’ s leading Conservative posek in Israel, Rabbi David Golinkin, has written profusely on Louis Ginzberg.

David Zvi Hoffman suggests that Mishnah Rishonah actually refers to texts from earlier Sages upon which Rabbi based his Mishnah.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner ( Masorti UK ), the first rabbi to provide long-distance communal supervision, was succeeded in 2009 by rabbi David Soetendorp.

* Video: Rabbi Prof. David Hartman lectures about Mordecai Kaplan

Rabbi David Dalin's The Myth of Hitler's Pope argues that critics of Pius XII are liberal Catholics and ex-Catholics who " exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today " and that Pius XII was responsible for saving the lives of many thousands of Jews.

In 2002, the CJLS adapted a responsum by Rabbi David Fine, Women and the Minyan, which provides an official religious-law foundation for these actions and explains the current Conservative approach to the role of women in prayer.

* Rabbi Aqiba und Bar-Kokhba ( 1910 ), a Yiddish novel by David Pinsky

" Rabbi David Wolpe believes that the Second Coming was " grown out of genuine disappointment " and invented by Christians to theologically compensate for Jesus ' death.

This was discouraged by Rabbi David HaLevi Segal in his commentary to the Shulchan Aruch.

For example, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of the Makhon Shilo institute has issued a siddur reflecting Eretz Yisrael practice as found in the Jerusalem Talmud and other sources.

However, he personally refrained from eating meat except on the Sabbath and Festivals, and one of his leading disciples, Rabbi David Cohen, known as the " Nazirite " of Jerusalem, was a devout vegetarian.

* Rabbi David Kimhi, biblical commentator ( d. 1235 )

In Israel, the Shalom Hartman Institute, founded by Orthodox Rabbi David Hartman, opened a program in 2009 that will grant semicha to women and men of all Jewish denominations, including Orthodox Judaism, although the students are meant to " assume the role of ' rabbi-educators ' – not pulpit rabbis-in North American community day schools.

A teacher of the 3rd century, Rabbi Simlai, traces the development of Jewish religious principles from Moses with his 613 mitzvot of prohibition and injunction, through David, who, according to this rabbi, enumerates eleven ; through Isaiah, with six ; Micah, with three ; to Habakkuk who simply but impressively sums up all religious faith in the single phrase, " The pious lives in his faith " ( Talmud, Mak., toward end ).

" Rabbi David Berger replied " I confess that I would not look forward to such a disappearance ....

Rabbi David Golinkin in the Responsa of the Masorati ( Conservative ) Movement cites Rabbenu Manoah ( Provence, ca.

Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of Machon Shilo offers a unique Orthodox approach: he has published a responsum outlining his opinion that there is no binding custom on Ashkenazim in the Land of Israel as historically this was not the local practice ( which, he explains, is the essence of custom ); in March 2007 he released a ruling that all Jews in the Land of Israel are permitted to eat kitniyot ( see English Article and Hebrew Legal Ruling ).

Scholars speculate he was a student of Rabbi David Kimhi whose family fled Spain to Narbonne.

The Jewish bibliographer Isaac ben Jacob in his Bibliography Otsar Hasefarim 1880, mentions notations on Michlol, the Hebrew book by David Kimhi on Hebrew grammar, which he attributes to one " Rabbi Isaac Casaubon ".

The rabbinic commentator, Meir Loeb ben Jehiel Michael ( 1809 – 1879 ) known as the Malbim, basing himself on the commentary of Rabbi David ben Joseph Kimhi ( the Radak, 13th century ) says:

The debates between Dunash and others were finally decided in the centuries after his death by Rabbeinu Tam, a grandson of Rashi, who attempted to judge between the two schools of thought, and by Rabbi Joseph Kimhi, father of the noted grammarian Rabbi David Kimhi ( RaDaK ), who supported Dunash's positions.

Born in Narbonne, Provence, he was the son of Rabbi Joseph Kimhi and the brother of Rabbi Moses Kimhi, both biblical commentators and grammarians.

He was the father of Moses and David Kimhi, and the teacher of Rabbi Menachem Ben Simeon.

An example of how different views of the origin of Jewish law inform Conservative approaches to interpreting that law involves the CJLS's acceptance of Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz's responsum decreeing the Biblical category of mamzer as " inoperative ", in which The CJLS adopted the Responsum's view that of how, in the Conservative view of Halakha, the " morality which we learn through the unfolding narrative of our tradition " informs the application of Mosaic law:

The name of an important 2nd century CE sage — Ishmael ben Elisha, known as " Rabbi Ishmael " ( רבי ישמעאל ), one of the Tannaim — indicates that the Biblical Ishmael enjoyed a positive image among Jews of the time.

Rabbi Weissmandl claimed that this event was predicted by the Biblical story about the hanging of the 10 sons of Haman, also as a final consequence of a ( failed ) genocidal plan against the Jews.

Rabbi Schwartz identified Ma ' alul with the Biblical town of Nahalal.

Rabbi Yochanan ( Biblical Hebrew transliteration: Yoḥanan bar Nafḥa ); ( also known as Rabbi Yochanan bar Nafcha or Johanan bar Nappaha, " Rabbi Yochanan son the blacksmith ," Hebrew: יוחנן בר נפחא )

During the 1970s, members of the Beta Israel, a community of Ethiopian Jews, began to immigrate to Israel after Ovadia Yosef, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, ruled that they were descendents of the Biblical Israelites and that they should be eligible for citizenship under Israel's Law of Return.

The book was written by Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi ( 1550 – 1625 ) of Janowa ( near Lublin, Poland ), and mixes Biblical passages with teachings from Judaism's Oral Law such as the Talmud's Aggada and Midrash, which are sometimes called " parables, allegories, short stories, anecdotes, legends, and admonitions " by secular writers.

Unlike the latter, Bahya did not devote his attention to Talmudic science, but to Biblical exegesis, taking for his model Rabbi Moses ben Nahman who is known as Nahmanides or Ramban, the teacher of Rabbi Solomon ben Adret, who was the first to make use of the Kabbalah as a means of interpreting the Torah.

**" The Biblical and Historical Background of Jewish Customs and Ceremonies ", Rabbi Abraham Bloch.

He is also known as Re ' em ( רא ״ ם ), the Hebrew acronym for " Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi ", coinciding with the Biblical name of an animal, sometimes translated as " unicorn ".

** Joshua Falk, Rabbi and commentator ( d. 1614 )

In a 1995 edition of Hirsch ' Nineteen Letters, commentator Rabbi Joseph Elias makes an extensive effort to show Hirsch ' sources in Rabbinic literature, parallels in his other works and those of other post-Talmudic Jewish thinkers.

Nahmanides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Naḥman Girondi, Bonastruc ça ( de ) Porta and by his acronym Ramban ( 1194 – 1270 ), was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator.

Nahmanides was an adversary of Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, an influential Jewish Bible commentator.

Among the members of the community special mention may be made of Rabbi Ẓebi Hirsch, and his father Rabbi Aaron Mirels, and the Bible commentator Rabbi Meïr Löb Malbim.

1270 ), Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, Kabbalist and biblical commentator

Rabbeinu Abraham ben David was a Provençal rabbi, a great commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key and important links in the chain of Jewish mystics.

It is thought that the family of Rashi ( 1040 – 1105 ), the great Rabbi and commentator, originated in Lunel.