Talmudic sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva commented that this is a major element of the Jewish religion.

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

The Talmud suggests that this was a result of Divine Providence: God had granted the Jewish people another leader of great stature to succeed Rabbi Akiva.

There are also references to the " Mishnah of Rabbi Akiva ", though this may simply mean his teachings in general.

It is possible that Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir established the divisions and order of subjects in the Mishnah, but this would make them the authors of a school curriculum rather than of a book.

** Rabbi Akiva Eiger ( glosses, rather than a commentary )

Although Rabbi Lipschutz has faced some controversy in certain Hasidic circles, he was greatly respected by such sages as Rabbi Akiva Eiger, whom he frequently cites, and is widely accepted in the Yeshiva world.

This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd or 4th century ; its contents indicate that its sources are some of the oldest midrashim, dating back possibly to the time of Rabbi Akiva.

The Sifra work follows the tradition of Rabbi Akiva with additions from the School of Rabbi Ishmael.

Jewish theologians, who choose to emphasize the more evolutionary nature of the Halacha point to a famous story in the Talmud, where Moses is miraculously transported to the House of Study of Rabbi Akiva and is clearly unable to follow the ensuing discussion.

Examples are Bruriah, the wife of the Tanna Rabbi Meir ; Rachel, the wife of Rabbi Akiva ; and Yalta, the wife of Rabbi Nachman.

He was given the surname Bar Kokhba ( Aramaic for " Son of a Star ", referring to the Star Prophecy of, " there shall step forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab ") by his contemporary, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva.

In a similar vein, Rabbi Akiva ( ca. 50 – ca. 135CE ), is said to have learned a new law from every et ( את ) in the Torah ( Talmud, tractate Pesachim 22b ); the word et is meaningless by itself, and serves only to mark the direct object.

* Rabbi Akiva Head of all the Jewish Sages

Rabbi Akiva is supportive of the rebellion.

* 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 Akiva, Jewish sage, executed by the Romans ( probable date )

* Rabbi Akiva

A few instances of gematria in Arabic, Spanish and Greek, spelled with the Hebrew letters, are mentioned in the works of Rabbi Abraham Abulafia ; some Hasidic Rabbis also used it, though rarely, for Yiddish.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

This is not limited to the traditional thirteen textual tools attributed to the Tanna Rabbi Ishmael, which are used in the interpretation of halakha ( Jewish law ).

Among many Hasidic Jews, only hand-made shmurah matzah may be used, in accord with the opinion of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, who ruled that machine-made matzoth were chametz.

However the non-Hasidic Haredi community of Jerusalem follows the custom that machine-made matzah may be used, with preference to the use of shmurah flour, in accordance with the ruling of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, who actually ruled that machine-made matzah may be preferable to hand made in some cases.

Instead, Jews used Hebrew / Aramaic Targum manuscripts later compiled by the Masoretes ; and authoritative Aramaic translations, such as those of Onkelos and Rabbi Yonathan ben Uziel.

In 1803, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi compiled an authoritative siddur from the sixty siddurim that he checked for compliance with Hebrew grammar, Jewish law, and Kabbalah: this is what is known today as the " Nusach Ari ", and is used by Lubavitch Hasidim.

The traditional Rabbinic view is that most of the Zohar and the parts included in it ( i. e. those parts mentioned above ) were written and compiled by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, but some parts preceded Rashbi and he used them ( such as Sifra deTzni ` uta ; see above ), and some parts were written or arranged in generations after Rashbi's passing ( for example, Tannaim after Rashbi's time are occasionally mentioned ).

An emphasis on minute details of words and spellings, already used among the Pharisees as bases for argumentation, reached its height with the example of Rabbi Akiva ( d. 135 CE ).

In common parlance of modern times, the term ' The Rebbe ' is often used by Hasidim to refer to the leader of a Hasidic movement, for example, by Lubavitcher Hasidim referring to their Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Outside of Hasidic circles the term " Grand Rabbi " has been used to refer to a rebbe.

In analyzing, there are five different Hebrew names used to describe five different groups of people involved in the transaction of selling Joseph, according to Rabbi Judah and Rav Huna.

In the past, the local people were scared whenever they passed this grave during the night, while others used to kiss its walls and ask the dead Rabbi to heal them and their relatives because it was believed that the Rabbi used to heal people from certain diseases.

This mantra was not used by Rebbe Nachman himself, but was taught in the 20th century by Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser.

Under the editorship of Rabbi Hadas, they succeeded in printing the widely used Weekday Prayer Book in 1961.

Hasidim did not follow the traditional Ashkenazi prayer rite, and instead used a rite which is a combination of Ashkenazi and Sephardi rites ( Nusach Sefard ), based upon Kabbalistic concepts from Rabbi Isaac Luria of Safed.

El-Hage's prosecutors say that Abouhalima told el-Hage to buy a. 38 caliber revolver, that he did so, and that El Sayyid Nosair used that revolver to kill Rabbi Meir Kahane.

He used the code of Rabbi Isaac Alfasi as his starting point ; these views are then compared to those of Maimonides, as well as to the Ashkenazi traditions contained in the Tosafist literature.

About 70 are cited with the name of the Rabbi with whom they originated or whose explanation of the verse in question was used as an introduction to the section of Genesis Rabba.

For this reason, the few passages that actually say " this is the view of Rabbi Meir " represent cases where the author intended to present Rabbi Meir's view as a " minority opinion " not representing the accepted law.

The Jews resort thither to say their prayers, as Rabbi Benjamin has already related.

Chayey Moharan # 266 states Rabbi Nachman said " All the benefits Messiah can do for Israel, I can do ; the only difference is Messiah will decree and it will happen, but I -- ( and he stopped and did not say more ) version: I cannot finish yet "

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz the Nasi of the Sanhedrin said < cite > I'd be happy if in another few years these chairs are filled by scholars who are greater than us and we can say: ` I kept the chairs warm for you.

In one such case, a man named Agimet was ... coerced to say that Rabbi Peyret of Chambéry ( near Geneva ) had ordered him to poison the wells in Venice, Toulouse, and elsewhere.

" This is line with the talmudic dictum: Rabban Gamliel the son of Rabbi Judah haNasi used to say: " Make His Will your own will, that He make your will as His Will.

Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Tarfon say: Had we been in the Sanhedrin none would ever have been put to death.

* This warning had to be delivered within seconds of the performance of the sin ( in the time it took to say, " Peace unto you, my Rabbi and my Master ");

In Matthew's account of the Last Supper ( Matthew 26: 22-25 ) when Jesus says that he will be betrayed by one of his Apostles, one after another the Apostles say " Surely it is not I, Lord " but Judas Iscariot says " Surely it is not I, Rabbi ", using the term Rabbi instead of Lord.

A witty anecdote serves to illustrate how the three of them differed in their approaches and relation to their teacher: it is said that had Reb Chaim said, " This table is a cow ," Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik would say that the table had the same Talmudic laws as a cow, Rabbi Shimon Shkop would say the molecules in a table could be rearranged into a cow, but Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz would attempt to milk the table.

Rabbi Hanina ben Gamaliel said that each tablet contained five commandments, " but the Sages say ten on one tablet and ten on the other ".

Some sources say that Rabbi Alexander Ziskind, author of Yesod VeShoresh HaAvodah, stood near Potocki and said " Amen " to the blessing he said before he died.

As with most honorifics, this title precedes the name: for example, one might say " Maran Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ".

They say that all Rabbi Feinstein wrote was that the petek was wondrous, but he didn't verify its authenticity.