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 ( b. 1160 )

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.

But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant by about the year 220 CE, when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the Mishnah.

But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant about the year 200 CE, when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the Mishnah ().

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.

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

They are: 1 ) Hekhalot Zutartey (" The Lesser Palaces "), which details an ascent of Rabbi Akiva ; 2 ) Hekhalot Rabbati (" The Greater Palaces "), which details an ascent of Rabbi Ishmael ; 3 ) Ma ' aseh Merkabah (" Account of the Chariot "), a collection of hymns recited by the " descenders " and heard during their ascent ; and 4 ) Sepher Hekhalot (" Book of Palaces ," also known as 3 Enoch ), which recounts an ascent and divine transformation of the biblical figure Enoch into the archangel Metatron, as related by Rabbi Ishmael.

Rabbi Aaron Kotler had ruled that smoking is a biblical transgression.

Others like Rabbi Zvi Kalischer viewed a return to the Jewish homeland as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy through natural means.

** 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 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.

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.

Rabbi Yaakov Emden ( d. 1776 ) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: " As an aside, I ’ ll mention here what I heard from my father ’ s holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba ’ al Shem of blessed memory.

A third such work was that of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel ( d. 1327 ).

In the Ashkenazi community of Eastern Europe, later religious authorities including the Vilna Gaon ( d. 1797 ) and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( d. 1812 ) ( The Baal HaTanya ) believed in the authenticity of the Zohar.

** Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ( d. 1994 )

* October 3 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze ' ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader ( d. 2000 )

* December 3 – Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel ( d. 1959 )

** Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish Rabbi ( d. 1657 )

** Samuel Eidels, Rabbi and Talmudist ( d. 1631 )

* Rabbi Isaac Alfasi ( Rif ), Moroccan Talmudist and posek ( d. 1103 )

* Rabbi Isaac ben Moses of Vienna ( d. 1270 )

** Elimelech of Lizhensk, Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and one of the great Hassidic Rebbes of the past ( d. 1577 )

** Rabbi Yosef Karo, Jewish scholar ( d. 1575 )

An emphasis on minute details of words and spellings, already used among the Pharisees as bases for argumentation, reached its height with the example of Rabbi Akiva ( d. 135 CE ).

* Resh Lakish ( d. late 3rd century ), disciple of Judah haNasi, Rabbi Yannai and others, and colleague of Rabbi Yochanan.

* Rabbi Yochanan ( d. 279 or 289 ), disciple of Judah haNasi and Rabbi Yannai.

* Rabbi Abbahu ( d. early 4th century ), disciple of Rabbi Yochanan.

* Judah III ( d. early 4th century ), disciple of Rabbi Johanan bar Nappaha.

* Rava ( d. 352 ), disciple of Rabbah, Rav Yosef, and Rav Nachman, and possibly Rabbi Yochanan.