A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.

Also, the Babylonian Talmud teaches that " Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Eleazar both explain that as long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel, but now, one's table atones the poor are invited as guests " ( Talmud, tractate Berachoth 55a ).

Among the earliest Amoraim in Israel were Rabbi Yochanan and Shimon ben Lakish.

* 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.

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

Among Akiva's other contemporaries were Elisha ben Avuya, Eliezer ben Tzodok, Eleazar ben Azaria, Gamliel II, Yehuda ben Betheira, Yochanan ben Nuri, Yosi Haglili, Rabbi Yishmael and Chanina ben Dosa.

After the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai legislated a rabbinical enactment to take the four species for the entire seven days of the holiday in all locations as a commemoration of what was done in the Temple.

Rabbi Moshe Schreiber writes that it is an acronym for his father's name Mattityahu Kohen Ben Yochanan.

The spiritual center of Judaism at that time was Jerusalem, but after the destruction of the city and the Second Temple, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai and his students founded a new religious center in Yavne.

* Rabbi Yochanan Zweig – Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva Bais Moshe Chaim, Miami

According to Rabbi Yochanan, quoting Rabbi Shim ' on bar Yochai, the Jewish people will be redeemed when every Jew observes Shabbat ( the Sabbath ) twice in all its details.

" The sages Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai ( d. ca.

The end of the middle Roman period marks the end of the predominantly Jewish culture of Judea, but also the beginning of Rabbinic Judaism through Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakai in the city of Yavne.

: Once, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking with his disciple, Rabbi Yehoshua, near Jerusalem after the destruction of the Temple.

: See Rabbi Yochanan ( disambiguation ) for more rabbis by this name.

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 )

According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

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.

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.

* Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi or Judah haNasi, Talmudic scholar ( according to Jewish tradition, he was born the same day Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death )

* Rabbi Shimon Eider ( died 2007 ), author on halakha and expert on the construction of eruvin.

Its first appearance is the manuscript of the Rosh Hashana liturgy by the Talmudic sage Rav ( Rabbi Abba Arikha, died 247 ), who lived in Babylonia ( Persia ).

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( Hebrew: אברהם אבן עזרא or ראב " ע, Arabic ابن عزرا ; also known as Abenezra ) ( 1089 — 1164 ) was born at Tudela, Navarre Tudela, Navarre ( now in Spain ) in 1089, and died c. 1167, apparently in Calahorra.

In Israel, on the eve of Lag BaOmer, bonfires are lit on to commemorate the Mishnaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai who according to tradition died on Lag BaOmer.

After his first wife died at a young age, he married the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchak Sabba.

When Jacob Berab died, Karo was regarded as his successor, and together with Rabbi Moshe of Trani he headed the Rabbinical Court of Safed.

" This addition was subsequently endorsed by the Rabbi of Mainz, Jacob ben Moses Moelin, " the Maharil " ( died 1427 ).

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn died in 1950.

Schneerson died at the Beth Israel Medical Center on June 12, 1994 ( 3 Tammuz 5754 ) and was buried at the Ohel next to his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, at Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York, in 1994.

His mother Devorah Leah died just three years later, and her father Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi raised him as his own son.

Rabbi Chaim Schneur Zalman ( 1814 – 1880 ) was Rebbe in Lyady after his father, the Tzemach Tzedek died.

Rabbi Yaakov, although leaving descendants, died at quite a young age.

When Schneur Zalman died, many of his followers flocked to one of his top students, Rabbi Aharon HaLevi of Strashelye.

When Rabbi Menachem Mendel died ( in 1788 ), Rabbi Schneur Zalman was recognized as leader of the Chassidim in Lithuania.

After several months she died, and he then married the Rebetzin Rivkah, a granddaughter of Rabbi Dovber Schneuri, the Mitteler Rebbe.

After Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh died in 1870, Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib ( who became known posthumously as the Sfas Emes ) acceded to the request of the Hasidim to become their next rebbe.

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.

* The Levush Malkhut (" Levush ") of Rabbi Mordecai Yoffe ( c. 1530-1612 ).

* The Shulchan Aruch HaRav of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( c. 1800 ) was an attempt to recodify the law as it stood at that time — incorporating commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch, and subsequent responsa — and thus stating the decided halakha, as well as the underlying reasoning.

Moshe Schneersohn ( born c. 1784-died, before 1853 ) was the youngest son of the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.

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.

This view of Akiba's, in spite of the energetic protests of his colleague Rabbi Ishmael, became the one generally accepted by his contemporaries, as Justin Martyr, l. c., lvii., indicates.

Sabbatai Zevi ( ש ַׁ ב ְּ ת ַ אי צ ְ ב ִ י Shabbetai Tzvi, other spellings include Sabbatai Ẓevi, Shabbetai Ẓevi, Sabbatai Sevi, and Sabetay Sevi in Turkish ) ( August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676 in Dulcigno ( present day Ulcinj, Montenegro ) was a Sephardic Rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah.

From references in later treatises such as the Sefer ha-Manhig by Rabbi Abraham ben Nathan ha-Yarḥi ( c. 1204 ), it appears that even at that later time the Spanish rite preserved certain European peculiarities that have since been eliminated in order to conform to the rulings of the Geonim and the official texts based on them.

The core citations from classical Judaic sources cited by Teitelbaum in his arguments against modern Zionism are based on a passage in the Talmud, Rabbi Yosi b ' Rebbi Hanina explains ( Kesubos 111a ) that the Lord imposed " Three Oaths " on the nation of Israel: a ) Israel should not return to the Land together, by force ; b ) Israel should not rebel against the other nations ; and c ) The nations should not subjugate Israel too harshly.

: ῥαββί ὁ χριστός ( Rabbi, the Christ ) syr < sup > c </ sup >

The Kuzari by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi ( c. 1075-1141 ), understood these references in Talmud as referring to Jesus of Nazareth and based on them believed that Jesus of Nazareth lived 130 years prior to the date that Christians believe he lived, contradicting the Gospels ' account regarding the chronology of Jesus.

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.

Hakham BenSión Uziel, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of the State of Israel, stated in mid-20th c.

* Rabbi Akiva ( c. 50 to c. 135 )

It includes the core component, the Mishna, finalized by Rabbi Judah the Prince ( c. 200 CE ) along with the written discussions of generations of rabbis in the Land of Israel ( primarily in the academies of Tiberias and Caesarea ) which was compiled c. 350-400 CE into a series of books that became the Gemara ( – from gamar: Hebrew " complete "; Aramaic " study ").

" The Talmud mentions that a haftarah was read in the presence of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, who lived c. 70 CE, and in the Christian New Testament several references suggest this Jewish custom was in place during that era.

Or Adonai ( Hebrew: אור א ֲ ד ֹ נ ָ י ), The Light of the Lord, is the primary work of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas ( c. 1340-1410 / 1411 ), a Jewish philosopher.

Or Adonai ( Hebrew: אור א ֲ ד ֹ נ ָ י ), The Light of the Lord, is the primary work of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas ( c. 1340-1410 / 1411 ), a Jewish philosopher.

The traditional explanation that a burning rubbish heap in the Valley of Hinnom south of Jerusalem gave rise to the idea of a fiery Gehenna of judgment is attributed to Rabbi David Kimhi's commentary on Psalm 27: 13 ( c. 1200 ).

Mordecai ben Avraham Yoffe ( or Jaffe or Joffe ) ( c. 1530, Prague-March 7, 1612, Posen ; Hebrew: מרדכי בן אברהם יפה ) was a Rabbi, Rosh yeshiva and posek.