; 1013 – 1073: Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi ( from Morocco, later Spain ) writes the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

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.

Authorities are divided on whether Rabbi recorded the Mishnah in writing or established it as an oral text for memorisation.

In a ruling of importance for Orthodox women's capacity for legal self-protection under Jewish law, Haredi Rabbi Benzion Wosner, writing on behalf of the Shevet Levi Beit Din ( Rabbinical court ) of Monsey, New York, identified sexual harassment cases as coming under a class of exceptions to the traditional exclusion, under which " even children or women " have not only a right but an obligation to testify, and can be relied upon by a rabbinical court as valid witnesses:

Rabbi Obadiah of Bertinoro writing in 1488, states " the Westen Wall, part of which is still standing, is made of great, thick stones, larger than any I have seen in buildings of antiquity in Rome or in other lands.

Rabbi Joseph Schwarz writing in the mid-19th century records:

One major rabbinic contemporary who praised Luzzatto's writing was Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), who was considered to be the most authoritative Torah sage of the modern era as well as a great kabbalist himself.

Seven hundred rabbis were contacted either in person or in writing and Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Edah Charedis was the first to receive semikhah after Rabbis Ovadiah Yosef and Yosef Shalom Eliashiv found him fit for this honour, although he was too old to actually serve as a judge.

Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations called her conclusions absurd, writing that " there's no such thing as a ' messianic Jew.

The Rishonim were the leading rabbis between approximately 1250 to 1550, that is in the era before the writing of the Shulkhan Arukh by Rabbi Yosef Karo, which is considered the most authoritative compilation of Jewish law since the Talmud.

The two recensions appear to differ on the question of whether the Mishnah was recorded in writing by Rabbi Judah haNasi.

It is a matter of controversy if the Zohar is his own work, or that he committed traditions going back to Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai in writing.

In fact, Rabbi Judah the Pious stipulates in the introduction to the book that one of his primary goals in writing Sefer Hasidim was to make this hidden will of God accessible to those who wish to find it.

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, writing in the Jewish Encyclopedia ( 1901 – 1906 ), says that " it is almost impossible to derive from rabbinical sources a clear picture of his personality, and modern historians have differed greatly in their estimate of him.

He is known to scholars of Judaism for his Magen Avraham commentary on the Orach Chayim section of Rabbi Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch, which he began writing in 1665 and finished in 1671.

In a letter to the Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar criticized Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam, writing: " our way is to honour every religion and every nation according to their paths, as it is written in the book of prophets: ' because every nation will go in the name of its Lord.

I am writing on behalf of a most unusual individual, Rabbi Yisroel Dov Odesser, shlita, from Israel.

Chorin answered by writing Iggeret Elasaf, or Letter of an African Rabbi to His Colleagues in Europe, which was published by M. I. Landau ( Prague, 1826 ).

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

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

This work resembles the Hilchot of the Rif ( Rabbi Isaac Alfasi )-also an adumbration-but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and Alfasi himself.

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen ( 1013-1103 ) ( Hebrew: ר ' יצחק אלפסי )-also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif ( Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi ), was a Talmudist and posek ( decider in matters of halakha-Jewish law ).

Firstly, " the Rif " succeeded in producing a Digest, which became the object of close study, and led in its turn to the great Codes of Maimonides and of Rabbi Joseph Karo.

Rabbi Nissim of Gerona ( the RaN ) compiled a detailed and explicit commentary on this work ; In yeshivot " the Rif and the RaN " are regularly studied as part of the daily Talmudic schedule.

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

Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.

One of the most important Ashkenazic Rabbanim of the past century was Rabbi Meir Kagan or the Hafetz Haim.

* Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer ( not before eighth century ), a Midrashic narrative of the more important events of the Pentateuch.

" Moses our Teacher / Rabbi "), he is the most important prophet in Judaism, and is also considered an important prophet in Christianity and Islam, as well as a number of other faiths.

; 1040 – 1105: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki ( Rashi ) writes important commentaries on almost the entire Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) and Talmud.

An important alteration in the wording of the Kol Nidre was made by Rashi's son-in-law, Rabbi Meir ben Samuel ( early 12th century ), who changed the original phrase " from the last Day of Atonement until this one " to " from this Day of Atonement until the next.

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.

Influenced by the teaching of Rabbi Nissim of Gerona, via Ephraim Vidal's Yeshiva in Majorca, Duran's commentary Magen Avot (" The Shield of the Fathers "), which influenced Joseph Albo, is important.

Rabbi Soloveitchik felt it important to nurture the modern Rabbinical Council of America ( RCA ).

Loewe, Löwe, or Levai, ( c. 1520 – 17 September 1609 ) widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply The MaHaRaL, the Hebrew acronym of " Moreinu ha-Rav Loew ," (" Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew ") was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.

Johanan bar Nappaḥa ( 199 – 279 ) has left the following important note relative to the composition and editing of the Mishnah and other halakic works: " Our Mishnah comes directly from Rabbi Meir, the Tosefta from R. Nehemiah, the Sifra from R. Judah, and the Sifre from R. Simon ; but they all took Akiva for a model in their works and followed him " ( Sanh.

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.

Another important site, which lies in the Christian neighborhood, is called Rabbi Yihushua Di Sakhnin or Alsaddik in the local language.

Bosnia's Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, WJC Vice-President Rabbi Marc Schneier, and British Imam Abdujalil Sajid in Brussels, December 2010The World Jewish Congress considers dialogue with representatives of moderate Islam as “ one of the most important and challenging issues at this time.

For the Jews Aleksandrów was an important religious centre-the seat of Hasidic Tzadikim of the Alexander dynasty founded by Rabbi Yechiel Dancyger ( 1828 – 1894 ).

His father, Rabbi Simon Greenberg, was the rabbi of Har Zion Temple and one of the most important leaders of the Conservative movement.

The most important among them are the anonymous Sefer ha-Tzeruf ( translated into Latin for Pico ), Sefer Ner Elohim, and Sefer Shaarei Tzedek by Rabbi Nathan ben Saadiah Harar, who influenced the Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac of Acre.

During his years as Chief Rabbi, Yosef dealt with a variety of important social and Halachic issues ( See: Halakhic Authority below ).

He was a scholar of Talmud as well as the son of an important Orthodox rabbi, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, known as the Netziv, who was the head of the famous Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania.

An important later Yemenite authority was Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ's grandson, Rabbi Yosef Qafiḥ, who edited many important works by Maimonides and Saadia Gaon as well as issuing two new editions of the Baladi prayer book.