Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a " nebbish ," saying, " He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype.

* Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, author.

His eldest disciple, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, directed yeshivas in Kelm and Grobin.

In the following generation, leaders of the Musar movement included Simcha Zissel's student Nosson Tzvi Finkel of Slobodka, and Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz of Novaradok.

At a young age, he went to study at the Kelm Talmud Torah under Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, " the Alter of Kelm.

# Grand Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter ( April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992 ), also known as the Lev Simcha.

Only son of Rabbi Simcha Bunim.

His father Simcha was the son of Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka ( Gorodenka ), one of the Baal Shem Tov's disciples, after whom Rebbe Nachman was named.

Prominent recent authorities who have written commentaries on the work include Rabbis Meir Simcha of Dvinsk ( Ohr Somayach ), Chaim Soloveitchik ( Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim ), Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov ( Tevunah ), Isser Zalman Meltzer ( Even HaEzel ) and, more recently, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( Hadran al HaRambam ), Elazar Shach ( Avi Ezri ) and Rabbi Yosef Kapach.

* Rabbi Simcha Krauss, retired Rabbi of the Young Israel of Hillcrest, Queens, and former leader of the Religious Zionists of America

Having received semicha at 17, he continued his studies under Rabbi Simcha Bunim Schreiber ( the Shevet Sofer, grandson of the Chatam Sofer ).

His father, Reuven Dov Dessler, was a disciple of one of the main leaders of the Mussar movement, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, best known as the Alter ( Elder ) of Kelm.

Rabbi Meir Simcha ( as well as the Rogatchover Gaon, the Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner of Klausenburg, the Dor Revi ' i, and Rabbi Dr Yissachar Dov Ritter of Rotterdam ) was one of the prominent rabbis who discovered that the work was a very clever forgery, and denounced it as such.

One of his most prominent students and a close friend, Rabbi Yisrael Avraham Abba Krieger, adopted his name since Rabbi Meir Simcha had no surviving children, carrying the full name Yisrael Avraham Abba Meir Simcha Krieger.

Rabbi Meir Simcha authored Ohr Somayach ( or Ohr Sameiach ) (" The delighted, or happy, light "), a play on his name, possibly derived from Proverbs 13: 9 ), a collection of novellae on Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah.

In the late 1970s several baal teshuva yeshivas under Haredi Judaism auspices were founded and chose to honor the memory of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk by calling themselves by his pen name for his work " Ohr Somayach ".

Both he and his elder brother Simcha ( d. 1812 ) studied under Rabbi Aryeh Leib Gunzberg the author of the Shaagas Aryeh, who was then rabbi of Volozhin, and afterward under Rabbi Raphael ha-Kohen ( the author of the Toras Yekusiel ), later of Hamburg.

Significant rabbis who have done so include Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv, and Rabbi Moshe Cordovero.

In his youth, he studied with Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv at the Talmud Torah in Grobiņa, Latvia, but was eventually expelled from the school for his " heretical tendencies.

* Simcha Zissel Ziv, the Alter of Kelm