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.

The Mishnah has many sayings about the World to Come, for example, " Rabbi Yaakov said: This world is like a lobby before the World to Come ; prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall.

At the age of 17 he married and soon after went to learn in the yeshiva of Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar in Worms, returning to his wife three times yearly, for the Days of Awe, Passover and Shavuot.

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.

There are those who attribute Sifra diTzni ` uta to the patriach Yaakov ; however, Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi of Kamarno in his book Zohar Chai wrote, " Sifra diTzni ` uta was composed by Rashbi ... and he arranged from baraitas which were transmitted to Tannaim from mount Sinai from the days of Moshe, similar to the way Rabeinu HaKadosh arranged the six orders of Mishnah from that which was repeated from before.

The nine are: Rabbi Eliezer his son, Rabbi Abba, Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov, Rabbi Yitzchak, Rabbi Chezkiyah bar Rav, Rabbi Chiyya, Rabbi Yossi and Rabbi Yisa.

As described in the Idra Rabba, before the Idra disjourned, three of the students died: Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov, Rabbi Chezkiyah bar Rav, and Rabbi Yisa.

This course of study is overseen by Rabbi Yaakov Varhaftig.

This course of study is overseen by Rabbi Yaakov Varhaftig.

Leon Kieres, the President of IPN, also met in New York with Rabbi Jacob Baker ( formerly Yaakov Eliezer Piekarz ) who had emigrated in 1938 from Jedwabne to the United States.

These include Rabbi Meir Margolius, chief rabbi of Lemberg and later Ostroha, and author of Meir Netivim ( a work of halachic responsa ) and other works ; Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hakohen, rabbi of Polnoy ; Rabbi Dovid Halperin, rabbi of Ostroha ; Rabbi Israel of Satinov, author of Tiferet Yisrael ; Rabbi Yoseph Heilperin of Slosowitz ; and Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezrich ( AKA the Maggid of Mezritch ) to whose great authority as a Talmudist it was chiefly due that Besht ’ s doctrines ( though in an essentially altered form ) were introduced into learned circles.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the 16th century.

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.

In his commentary on the Talmud, Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ) wrote:

In it, Gans writes of an audience between the Maharal and Rudolph II: " Our lord the emperor … Rudolph … sent for and called upon our master Rabbi Low ben Bezalel and received him with a welcome and merry expression, and spoke to him face to face, as one would to a friend.

The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

* The work of the Rosh, Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel ( 1250 ?/ 1259 ?– 1328 ), an abstract of the Talmud, concisely stating the final halakhic decision and quoting later authorities, notably Alfasi, Maimonides, and the Tosafists.

* The Sefer Mitzvot Gadol ( The " SeMaG ") of Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy ( first half of the 13th century, Coucy, Northern France ).

* The Arba ' ah Turim ( The Tur, The Four Columns ) by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher ( 1270 – 1343, Toledo, Spain ).

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.

Tradition records the young Israel ben Eliezer joining their ranks under Rabbi Adam Baal Shem and guiding their outreach.

The Medieval rabbinic figure Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ), also known as the Rambam, wrote a commentary to tractate Sanhedrin stressing a relatively naturalistic interpretation of the Messiah and de-emphasizing miraculous elements.

Mosheh ben Maimon ( משה בן מימון )‎, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (), or RaMBaM ( רמב " ם – Hebrew acronym for " Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon "), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

His full Hebrew name is Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon (), whose acronym forms " Rambam " ( רמב " ם ).

There were female Tannaic Torah jurists such as Rabbi Meir's wife, Rabbi Meir's daughter, and the daughter of Haninyah ben Teradyon Haninyah's daughter is again mentioned as a sage in the non-Talmud 3rd Century text Tractate Semahot verse 12: 13.

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

Traditionally attributed to the tannaitic Rabbi Yose ben Halafta.

A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

Rabbi Peretz ben Elijah ruled, " The cry of the daughters of our people has been heard concerning the sons of Israel who raise their hands to strike their wives.

According to medieval sage Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, author of the Torah commentary Kli Yakar, the complexity of these laws was intended to discourage the consumption of meat.

22-volume " Or Yakar ," was written by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero of the Tzfat ( i. e. Safed ) kabbalistic school in the 16th century.

Still, Rabbi Solomon Efraim of Lontschitz ( the author of " Kli Yakar "), a prominent and well known rabbi, lived here.

This announcement was introduced by Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg ( late 13th century ), and endorsed by the Maharil ( Rabbi Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, early 15th century ).

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi was a student of his father, but most notably also a student of his grandfather Rabbi Elijah Ba ' al Shem of Chelm.

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

Jacob ben Asher, also known as Ba ' al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash ( Rabbeinu Asher ), was likely born in Cologne, Germany c. 1269 and likely died in Toledo, Spain c. 1343.

Arba ' ah Turim (), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code, composed by Yaakov ben Asher ( Cologne, 1270-Toledo c. 1340, also referred to as " Ba ' al ha-Turim ", " Author of the Tur ").

* Or li-Yesharim ( a commentary on the classic work Sefer ha-Yashar, attributed to the Tosafist Rabbi Yaakov ben Meir, Rabbeinu Tam );

* Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, ( Maharil ), 14th century codifier of German minhag

Rav Nissim studied at the Kairouan yeshiva, initially under his father-Jacob ben Nissim (" Rav Yaakov Gaon ") who had studied under Hai Gaon-and then under Chushiel, whom he succeeded as head of the Yeshiva.

* R ' Nissim ben Yaakov z " l, torah. org

Perhaps under the influence of this tradition the modern Hebrew New Testament does in fact use the Hebrew name Yaakov ben Khalfi ( יעקב בן חלפי ) for James son of Alphaeus.

Naftali Hertz ben Yaakov Elchanan ( Bacharach ) ( 17th century ) was a German rabbi, born in Frankfurt, author of the controversial work Emeq HaMelekh ( Valley of the King, 1648, Amsterdam ) on the subject of the Lurianic Kabbalah.

This is also the opinion of Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, Moshe Stern Yitzchak Abadi, Yosef Hayyim, and Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg in his Sefer Chassidim.

Avraam / Albert Yakovlevich Harkavy (), or Avraham Eliyahu ben Yaakov Harkavy ( in Hebrew ) ( 17 October 1835 – 15 March 1919 ) was a Russian-Jewish historian and orientalist.

He was the brother of Rabbi Yitzhak ha-Lavan (" the White ") ben Yaakov, a renowned Jewish jurist.

First published in 1524 – 25 by Daniel Bomberg in Venice, the Mikraot Gedolot was edited by the masoretic scholar Yaakov ben Hayyim.

Ramban ( Nahmanides ), Shmuel ben Uri, and Yaakov Emden disagreed.

His principal teacher was Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg ; he was also taught by Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil, Ephraim ben Nathan, Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin ( Jacob ben Moses ha-Levi ), Abraham b. Baruch ( Meir of Rothenburg's brother ), and Dan Ashkenazi.