Shmaya ( Hebrew: שמעיה, or Shemaiah, Samaias or Sameas ) was a rabbinic sage in the early pre-Mishnaic era who lived at the same time as Avtalyon.

Both Shmaya and Avtalyon were converts to Judaism and were both descendants of King Sancheriv of Assyria who destroyed the northern Kingdom of Israel.

* Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky, who is married to Rivkah Gutnick, daughter of Australian commodities magnate Joseph Gutnick.

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.

The earliest evidence suggests that merkabah homiletics did not give rise to ascent experiences-as one rabbinic sage states: " Many have expounded upon the merkabah without ever seeing it.

Bahir or Sefer HaBahir ס ֵ פ ֶ ר ה ַ ב ָּ ה ִ יר ( Hebrew, " Book of the Brightness ") is an anonymous mystical work, attributed to a 1st century rabbinic sage Nehunya ben HaKanah ( a contemporary of Yochanan ben Zakai ) because it begins with the words, " R. Nehunya ben HaKanah said ".

A Tanna ( plural, Tannaim ) is a rabbinic sage whose views are recorded in the Mishnah.

Abba Arikka ( 175 – 247 ) ( Talmudic Aramaic: ; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רבי אבא בר איבו ) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora ( commentator on the Oral Law ) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud.

This book is also held in esteem by Jews who fall under the category of Jews-by-choice, as is evidenced by the considerable presence of Boaz in rabbinic literature.

Some statements found in rabbinic literature ( Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1: 3, based on Targum Yerushalmi ) posits that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was ( also ) called " Buzi " because he was despised by the Jews.

Spitz argues that the punishment of the Mamzer has been effectively inoperative for nearly two thousand years due to deliberate rabbinic inaction ( with a few rule-proving counterexamples, including the 18th century Orthodox rabbi Ismael ha-Kohen of Modena, who decreed that a child should have the word " mamzer " tattoed to his forehead ).

When Steven Greenberg, who received Orthodox rabbinic ordination, publicly announced that he was homosexual, there was a significant response from rabbis of all denominations reported in the Jewish newspapers.

While few women are mentioned by name in rabbinic literature, and none are known to have authored a rabbinic work, those who are mentioned are portrayed as having a strong influence on their husbands, and occasionally having a public persona.

* Rashi's oldest daughter, Yocheved, married Meir ben Shmuel ; their four sons were: Shmuel ( Rashbam ) ( b. 1080 ), Yitzchak ( Rivam ) ( b. 1090 ), Jacob ( Rabbeinu Tam ) ( b. 1100 ), and Shlomo the Grammarian, who were among the most prolific of the Baalei Tosafos, leading rabbinic authorities who wrote critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud which appear opposite Rashi's commentary on every page of the Talmud.

Not only “ In the rabbinic literature, the cockcrow is used as general marking of time ”, but also some of the Sages interpreted the " cockcrow " to mean the voice of the Temple officer who summoned all priests, Levites, and Israelites to their duties and used as such because the Hebrew gever was used also to mean a " rooster " in addition to the meaning of " man, strong man ".

Lesser, rabbinic restrictions are often violated under much less urgent circumstances ( a patient who is ill but not critically so ).

There are people of religions besides Judaism, or even those without religious affiliation, who delve in the Zohar out of curiosity, or as a technology for people who are seeking meaningful and practical answers about the meaning of their lives, the purpose of creation and existence and their relationships with the laws of nature, and so forth ; however from the perspective of traditional, rabbinic Judaism, and by the Zohar's own statements, the purpose of the Zohar is to help the Jewish people through and out of the Exile and to infuse the Torah and mitzvot ( Judaic commandments ) with the wisdom of Kabbalah for its Jewish readers.

Within the various Jewish denominations there are different requirements for rabbinic ordination, and differences in opinion regarding who is to be recognized as a rabbi.

The Jews who did not accept any fundamental changes in rabbinic Judaism became known as Orthodox.

Some Ashkenazi Jews in Israel who have married Sephardic Jews adopt the Sephardic custom ; this often occurs with Orthodox rabbinic approval — a noted leniency, since Orthodox rabbis usually hold that one may not reject the minhagim ( customs ) of one's parents.

Dorff is a rare example of someone who has written about the theory of Jewish law and has also written rabbinic rulings ( teshuvot ) on a number of issues in Jewish law.

marrà ) were originally Jews living in the Iberian Peninsula who had converted, or been forced to convert, to Christianity, some of whom may have continued to observe rabbinic Judaism in secret.

Other rabbinic scholars also note that Abraham was willing to do everything to spare his son, even if it meant going against the divine command: while it was God who ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, it was an angel, a lesser being in the celestial hierarchy, that commanded him to stop.

Later he won over great and universally recognized rabbinic authorities who became his disciples and attested to both his scholarship and saintliness.

The debate was initiated by an apostate rabbinic Jew, Pablo Christiani, who had been sent by the Dominican Master General, Raymond de Penyafort, to King James I of Aragon, with the request that the king order Ramban to respond to charges against Judaism.

Within the rabbinic tradition, the Kabbalah, chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch, and the Life of Adam and Eve, the usual number of archangels given is at least seven, who are the focal angels.

) Most are " graduates of the ALEPH rabbinic program, created in the late 1990s to bring greater consistency to the course of study and relieve the pressure on Schachter-Shalomi, who had been personally overseeing each student's progress.

His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost those of a son ( Yer.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

The CJLS has also held that the Talmudic concept of Kavod HaBriyot permits lifting rabbinic decrees ( as distinct from carving narrow exceptions ) on grounds of human dignity, and used this principle in a December 2006 opinion lifting all rabbinic prohibitions on homosexual conduct ( the opinion held that only male-male anal sex was forbidden by the Bible and that this remained prohibited ).

The Talmud was a compilation of both the Mishnah and the Gemara, rabbinic commentaries redacted over the next three centuries.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Neusner was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( where he received rabbinic ordination ), the University of Oxford, and Columbia University.

All classical rabbinic views hold that the Torah was entirely or almost entirely Mosaic and of divine origin.

According to classical rabbinic texts this parallel set of material was originally transmitted to Moses at Sinai, and then from Moses to Israel.

According to rabbinic tradition, the Tosefta was redacted by Rabbis Ḥiya and Oshaiah ( a student of Ḥiya ).

Some Orthodox Jews accept the earlier rabbinic position that the Zohar was a work written in the middle medieval period by Moses de Leon, but argue that since it is obviously based on earlier materials, it can still be held to be authentic, but not as authoritative or without error as others within Orthodoxy might hold.

Its mystic mode of explaining some commandments was applied by its commentators to all religious observances, and produced a strong tendency to substitute mystic Judaism in the place of traditional rabbinic Judaism.

The commentary was also thoroughly rabbinic, quoting mainly from medieval exegetes but also from Talmud-era midrashim.

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.

He came to believe that the rabbinic leadership was too consumed by ritualism and legalistic posturing.

Costa was called before the rabbinic leadership of Amsterdam for uttering blasphemous views against Judaism and Christianity.