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

Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a leading rabbi at Yeshiva University, stated " It is very sad that an individual who attended our yeshiva sunk to the depths of what we consider a depraved society ,"

Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center stated that " People who support letters like this are people who do not support a two-state solution.

" Jakobovits wrote that " The whole incident had been fabricated in true Protocols style ", and cited a lengthy responsum by Isser Yehuda Unterman, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel at the time, who stated that, " the Sabbath must be violated to save non-Jewish life no less than Jewish lives.

* 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 American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) released a report by Rabbi A. James Rudin in 1976 which stated that the Divine Principle contained " pejorative language, stereotyped imagery, and accusations of collective sin and guilt.

Rabbi David Rosen, the AJC ’ s international director of Interreligious Affairs stated: " We acknowledge that the Church ’ s liturgy is an internal Catholic matter and this motu proprio from Pope Benedict XVI is based on the permission given by John Paul II in 1988 and thus, on principle, is nothing new ".

In this same chapter 11 of the Seder Olam, Rabbi Jose stated ( for unknown reasons ) that Israel's time in its land must have lasted an integral number of Jubilee periods.

After Rabbi Bogomilsky and other Jewish leaders stated that they had no intention of suing the Port of Seattle, the port reinstalled the trees on the night of December 11, 2006.

" Rabbi Mikhailashvili stated, " The Jewish community mourns the sudden loss of Zurab Zhvania.

" In the same newspaper article on this book, Conservative Rabbi Jerome Epstein, vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and Orthodox Rabbi Lawrence Shiffman, professor of Judaic Studies at New York University also stated that Harris-Shapiro was egregiously incorrect.

Although some of Feiglin's opponents have described him as a latter-day version of Rabbi Meir Kahane, he has stated on several occasions that he disagrees with many of Kahane's policies.

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

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) stated in the Mishneh Torah Sefer Shofetím, Hilekhót Mumarím 3: 3

Rabbi Moshe Sherer, Chairman of Agudath Israel World Organization, stated that " Yes we played a role in putting an end to that farce, and I'm proud we did.

In August 2004, the Chief Rabbi of Kazakhstan, addressing an international religious conference in Brussels, stated that in 10 years in the country he had never faced anti-Semitism.

In 2002, Rabbi Avi Weiss of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, stated that " As an Orthodox institution, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah requires its students to daven in synagogues with mechitzot.

In April 1971, she was the subject of an article in the New York Times, titled “ Her Ambition Is to Become a Rabbi – And a Housewife ”, in which she stated:

Gateways was founded in 1998 by Rabbi Mordechai Suchard with the stated goal of " providing opportunities for Jews to unlock the treasure of their heritage through dynamic educational and social programs.

According to Rabbi Aaron Wertheim, Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz ( 1726 – 1791 ) stated, " The acronym for Shabbos is: Shtreimel Bimkom Tefillin -- the shtreimel takes the place of tefillin.

At Goldstein's eulogy Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba stated: " Goldstein could not continue to bear all the cases he was seeing as a doctor ; he might have gone insane from all he went through.

In the United Kingdom, Chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks stated,

He is called Rabbi Abba only in the tannaitic literature ( for instance, Tosefta, Beitzah 1: 7 ), where a number of his sayings are preserved.

As far as we know, the Vilna Gaon is the only Rabbi who has actually claimed that he tried to create a Golem ; all such stories about other rabbis were told after their time.

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.

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:

The only reason given for the centuries old tradition that he was a vintner, being not true is that the soil in all of Troyes, is not optimal for wine growing grapes, claimed by the research of Rabbi Haym Solevetchik.

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.

Indeed, Rabbi Joseph Albo maintains that renunciation of the consumption of meat for reasons of concern for animal welfare is not only morally erroneous but even repugnant.

Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon wrote that " God as conceived by Judaism is not only the First Cause, the Creative Power, and the World Reason, but also the living and loving Father of Men.

Commentator Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the book is written as if Jeremiah not only heard as words but personally felt in his body and emotions the experience of what he prophesied:

In contrast to Kach and the ideas of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Moledet only advocates voluntary transfer.

Rabbi Yechiel Steinmetz's Eruv was functional only for that summer.

Rabbi Yisrael Yaaqob Alghazi and Rabbi Yomtob ben Yisrael Alghazi held that the observance of this mitzvah by women was not only permitted but actually commendable, since such diligence amongst the non-obligated would inspire these women's male relatives to be even more diligent in their own observance.

The teachings of the maggid are recorded in his published work titled Maggid Meisharim, although Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai notes that only about one fiftieth of the manuscript was ever published, ( see Works ).

Rabbi Yona Ibn Janach ( Spain, 11th century ) wrote that God demanded only a symbolic sacrifice.

According to Soloveitchik's son Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik, Rabbi Soloveitchik only saw Rabbi Schneerson pass by in Berlin and they did not meet while there.

The second will gave the bulk of control to three senior Chabad rabbis, Rabbis Mindel, Pikarski and Hodakov ( contemporary of Rabbi Schneerson ) and gave Krinsky only a minor role.

* Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn ( 1880 – 1950 ), only son of Sholom Dovber, known as the " Rebbe Rayatz " or the " Frierdiker Rebbe " ( Yiddish: Previous Rebbe ).

He would only allude in the most general ways to other great mystics, in Hebrew mekubalim, such as the Baal Shem Tov ( founder of Hasidism ), the great mystic known as the Ari who lived in the late Middle Ages, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, the Baal HaTanya Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters as well as to the great works of Kabbalah such as the Zohar.

Rabbi Yisroel Noach ( 1815 – 1883 ) of Nizhyn, although officially a Rebbe, had only a small following.

Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn was born in Lyubavichi, Russia, the only son of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn ( the Rebbe Rashab ), the fifth Rebbe of Chabad.

Dov Ber later became an admirer of Rabbi Isaac Luria's system of Kabbalah, which was becoming popular at that time and was aware of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, whose writings, then only in manuscript, were well known among the Polish mystics of the period.