Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

One of the main proponents of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was Chaim Weizmann, the leading spokesperson for organized Zionism in Britain.

The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.

Chaim Weizmann was the leader of both the Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency until 1929.

In collaboration with the late Chaim Potok, Kushner co-edited Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, the new official Torah commentary of the Conservative movement, which was jointly published in 2001 by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Publication Society.

The Orthodox Jewish community was led by Rabbi Chaim Pinchos Lubinsky.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner ( Masorti UK ), the first rabbi to provide long-distance communal supervision, was succeeded in 2009 by rabbi David Soetendorp.

* Chaim Perelman was a philosopher of law, who studied, taught, and lived most of his life in Brussels.

This method was first recorded, though without explicit reference to Aristotle, by Isaac Campanton ( d. Spain, 1463 ) in his Darkhei ha-Talmud (" The Ways of the Talmud "), and is also found in the works of Moses Chaim Luzzatto.

These hopes were expressed in the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was signed by soon-to-be Iraqi ruler Faisal I and the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, which called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

" At the age of four, Peres was taken by his father to Radun ' to receive a blessing from Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ( The Chofetz Chaim ).

In 1982 his major work, Mekor Chaim, was finally published posthumously by Mechon Yerushalayim.

Acetone for the cordite industry during late World War I was eventually produced through the efforts of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, considered to be the father of industrial fermentation.

:" The view that God does not have foreknowledge of moral decisions which was advanced by ibn Daud and Gersonides ( Levi ben Gershom ) is not quite as isolated as Rabbi Bleich indicates, and it enjoys the support of two highly respected Achronim, Rabbi Yeshayahu Horowitz ( Shelah haKadosh ) and Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar ( Or haHayim haKadosh ).

In May 2009, a unique and unusual settlement regarding Chaim Soutine's iconic painting entitled Piece de Boeuf ( Piece of Beef c. 1923 ) was approved by Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York.

He was found guilty but pardoned by President Chaim Weizmann.

His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Léopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) in her painting " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ).< ref >

Organised Torah study was revolutionised by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon ( an influential 18th century leader of Judaism ).

The Polish Jews were divided into many Kollelim ; Kollel Polen headed by Rabbi Chaim Elozor Wax ; Kollel Vilna Zamutch was under different leadership ; and the Galicians were incorporated under Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim.

Zundel Salant was a student of Rabbis Chaim Volozhin and Akiva Eiger whose profoundly good-hearted and humble behavior and simple lifestyle attracted Yisrael Salanter's interest, and Zundel Salant allegedly urged Salanter to focus himself on Musar.

* Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, in 1939, stated that the Nazi persecution of the Jews was the fault of non-Orthodox Jews ( Achiezer, volume III, Vilna 1939 ), in the introduction.

The psychiatric diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) was coined in the mid 1970s, in part through the efforts of anti-Vietnam War activists and the anti war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Chaim F. Shatan.

Eban's brother-in-law was the late Chaim Herzog, the sixth president of Israel.

* Chaim Herzog, 6th President of Israel, born in Belfast.

* August 9 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter ( born 1893 )

* Chaim Topol ( born 1935 ), Israeli actor ( often billed simply as " Topol ")

Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, in a Jewish family, son of a building contractor in Druskininkai, Lithuania, then within the Russian Empire.

* Isaac ( Buzi ) Herzog ( born 1960 ), Israeli politician, son of Chaim Herzog

* Chaim Weizmann ( 1874 – 1952 ), first president of Israel, born in Motal, near Pinsk and educated in Pinsk

Rabbi Epstein was born in the town of Bakst, in the Vilna district of Lithuania, on the 20th of Adar, 5626 ( 1866 ), to Rabbi Tzvi Chaim and Baila Chana Epstein.

* Chaim Sheba – Israeli physician ( born in Frasin )

Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the United States, studied in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner.

* Home page of the painter Chaim Goldberg, who was born in the village and who made its depiction during the period of 1930-1939 his life's mission.

Yosef Chaim was born in Baghdad where his father, Hakham Eliyahu Chaim, was the active leader of the Jewish community.

Popularly known as " Reb Chaim Volozhiner " or simply as " Reb Chaim ", he was born in Volozhin ( aka Vałožyn or Valozhyn ) when it was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Chaim Yehuda ( Yudel ) Krinsky ( born 1933, Boston, Massachusetts ) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi.

* Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Rav of Vilnius, born in Iwye

Victor Vancier ( born December 25, 1956 ), commonly referred to by his Hebrew name, Chaim Ben Pesach () is an American political activist and the founder and director of the United States-based Kahanist organization, Jewish Task Force ( JTF ) and the former National Chairman of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in the United

In the mid-19th century the Krymchaks became followers of Rabbi Chaim Hezekiah Medini, a Sephardi rabbi born in Jerusalem who had come to Crimea from Constantinople.

Some famous badchonim include Chaim Menachem ( Mendel ) Mermelstien ( born March 2, 1920 in Munkacz, died November 7, 1985 in New York ), considered the father of modern day badchonus, and the present-day performers Yankel Miller and Yoel Lebowits.

Chaim Sheba (; born 1908, died 10 July 1971 ) was an Israeli physician.

Sheba was born as Chaim Scheiber in 1908 in Frasin, near Gurahumora, Bukovina, then in Austria-Hungary ( now in Suceava County, Romania ), to the well known Scheiber Hasidic family, a descendant of the Hasidic house of Roujin.

Flaganan was born Chaim Reuben Weintrop in Whitechapel, in the East End of London.

Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the " Weizmann Organism ", after Jewish-Russian born Chaim Weizmann, then senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time, jointly, acetone, ethanol, and butanol from starch.

Todd was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim Goldbogen ( an Orthodox rabbi ) and Sophia Hellerman, both Polish Jewish immigrants.