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Rabbi and Eliyahu
The earliest known written account of the creation of a golem by a historical figure reported a tradition connected to Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm ( 1550 – 1583 ).
A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.
Rabbi Yaakov Emden ( d. 1776 ) elaborated on the story in a book published in 1748: " As an aside, I ’ ll mention here what I heard from my father ’ s holy mouth regarding the Golem created by his ancestor, the Gaon R. Eliyahu Ba ’ al Shem of blessed memory.
The 20th-century Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler is frequently quoted as defining love from the Jewish point of view as " giving without expecting to take " ( from his Michtav me-Eliyahu, Vol.
* Mikhtav me-Eliyahu, the works of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler.
* Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler had similar views, also discussed in Landau's book.
During his time in the yeshiva, he studied of Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim, ( also known as the Aderet ), the rabbi of Ponevezh ( today's Panevėžys, Lithuania ) and later Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Jerusalem.
On his maternal line, Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein and his wife Guta Feinstein née Davidovitch, who in turn was a descendant of a long line of Kapulyan rabbis, and of the Tosafot Yom Tov, the Shelah, the Maharshal, and Rashi.
* Rabbi Avrohom Eliyahu Kaplan of Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, Germany
Rabbi Moses Cordovero, Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz, Rabbi Jacob Berab, Rabbi Moses di Trani, Rabbi Joseph Caro, Rabbi Hayyim Vital, Joseph ibn Tabul, Rabbi Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Rabbi Israel Najara, Rabbi Eleazar Azikri, Rabbi Eliyahu de Vidas, and Rabbi Moses Alshech ;" including some lesser known figures such as Rabbi Joseph Hagiz, Rabbi Elisha Galadoa, and Rabbi Moses Bassola.

Rabbi and Baal
It was founded in 18th-century Eastern Europe by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov as a reaction against overly legalistic Judaism.
Tradition records the young Israel ben Eliezer joining their ranks under Rabbi Adam Baal Shem and guiding their outreach.
A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.
In the Ashkenazi community of Eastern Europe, later religious authorities including the Vilna Gaon ( d. 1797 ) and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( d. 1812 ) ( The Baal HaTanya ) believed in the authenticity of the Zohar.
*< small > Rabbi Nachman was the grandson of the Baal Shem Tov and the founder of the Breslov School of Hassidism.
* Rabbi Meir Baal Haneis
He is a respected Talmudic scholar, mystic, and brother-in-law of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov ( founder of the Hasidic movement ).
Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.
The appellation “ Baal Shem ” was not unique to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ; however, it is Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer who is most closely identified as a “ Baal Shem ”, as he was the founder of the spiritual movement of Hasidic Judaism.
Noteworthy is that the renowned Sefardic Rabbi Chaim Dovid Azulai ( Chida ) cites the Baal Shem Tov in his works in great laudatory terms.
* Rabbi Avraham Gershon of Kitov, brother-in-law of The Baal Shem Tov ( 1701 – 1761 ); descendant ( possibly the grandson ) of Shabbatai ha-Kohen (“ the ShACh ”) ( 1625 – 1663 ).
He was a prominent as well as the youngest disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch — principal disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of general hasidism — and was appointed Rabbi in the town of Liozna, later Liadi.
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.
When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov ( 1698 – 1760 ), emerged and made his teachings and influence felt through his own disciples, many rabbinical opponents of Hasidism were suspicious that he and his Hasidim were a class of Sabbateans.
Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism is regarded by Hasidim, as the first Hasidic rebbe.
The first " rebbe " to be known as such was the Baal Shem Tov's grandson, Rabbi Boruch of Mezhbizh who was referred to as " The Rebbe " during his lifetime.
He is also known as the Baal HaTanya, " Master of the Tanya ", and by a variety of other names including Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch, Baruchovitch being the Russian patronymic from his father Baruch, by the acronym RaZaSh, " Rabbi Za-Sh -", by the title Baal HaTanya ve-haShulchan Aruch, " Master of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch, as the Alter Rebbe (" Old Rebbe " in Yiddish ), Admor HaZaken (" Old Rebbe " in Hebrew ), Rabbeinu HaZokein, Rabbeinu HaGodol, " our great rabbi ", the GRaZ, and Rav.

Rabbi and Shem
Rabbi Elijah Ba ' al Shem of Chelm was a student of Rabbi Solomon Luria who was, in turn a student of Rabbi Shalom Shachna-father-in-law and teacher of Moses Isserles.
From stories told by Rabbi Elijah Ba ' al Shem of Chelm, German-speaking Jews, descendants of Jews who migrated back to Jerusalem after Charlemagne's invitation was revoked in Germany many centuries earlier, who lived in Jerusalem during the 11th century were influenced by prevailing Mutazilite scholars of Jerusalem.
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi was a student of his father, but most notably also a student of his grandfather Rabbi Elijah Ba ' al Shem of Chelm.

Rabbi and Worms
Rabbi Eliezar of Worms, in his elegy for his wife Dulca, praised her for teaching the other women how to pray and embellishing the prayer with music.
At the age of 17 he married and soon after went to learn in the yeshiva of Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar in Worms, returning to his wife three times yearly, for the Days of Awe, Passover and Shavuot.
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.
Among those murdered in Worms were the three sons of Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, Rashi's teacher.
His primary teacher was the Tosafist Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, then in Worms.
Thereafter the Rosh assumed Rabbi Meir's position in Worms.
The Maharal was probably born in Poznań ( Poland, though Perels lists the birth town-mistakenly-as Worms, Germany ) to Rabbi Bezalel ( Loew ), whose family originated from the German town of Worms.
Other Baalei Shem include Rabbi Eliyahu of Worms ( the founder of the movement variously known as " Macheneh Yisrael ", the " Nistarim ", and the " Holy Brotherhood "), Rabbi Joel of Ropshitz ( a student of Rabbi Yoel Sirkis ), Rabbi Adam Baal Shem, and Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk ( known as the Baal Shem of London ).
Rabbi Eleazar of Worms was a leading Talmudist and Kabbalist in the 13th century and was the prime disciple of Judah the Pious.
He was a student of Rabbi Elazar Rokeiach ( 1165 – 1238 ) from Worms, Germany, who was one of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a group of German pietists.

Rabbi and founded
A beloved Rabbi, he influenced generations of congregants and visiting students and, together with his wife who was an educator, founded Jewish day schools in both Springfield and Buffalo.
Reconstructionist Judaism is the first major movement of Judaism to originate in North America ; the second is the Humanistic Judaism movement founded in 1963 by Rabbi Sherwin Wine.
In Israel, the Shalom Hartman Institute, founded by Orthodox Rabbi David Hartman, opened a program in 2009 that will grant semicha to women and men of all Jewish denominations, including Orthodox Judaism, although the students are meant to " assume the role of ' rabbi-educators ' – not pulpit rabbis-in North American community day schools.
* In 2009, Orthodox Rabbi Avi Weiss founded Yeshivat Maharat, a school which " is dedicated to giving Orthodox women proficiency in learning and teaching Talmud, understanding Jewish law and its application to everyday life as well as the other tools necessary to be Jewish communal leaders.
During the fighting that marked the creation of the state of Israel, Gollancz became concerned for the plight of the Arabs and in October 1948 he founded the Jewish Society for Human Service ( JSHS ), with Rabbi Leo Baeck as its president.
In 2003 Rabbi Elazar Green & Shira Green founded the Chabad Jewish Enrichment Center, a branch of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, that focuses on serving the Jewish students of Franklin and Marshall College as well serving the general community with specific religious services.
Moledet was founded in 1988 by Rehavam Ze ' evi, who headed it until his assassination by members of the PFLP in 2001, after which Rabbi Benny Elon was elected as chairman.
The United Synagogue was founded in 1913 by Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter on the principle that through cooperation they could both develop and perpetuate Conservative Judaism.
* Yeshiva Yashresh Yakov on Tuttle Avenue was founded in 1985 by Rabbi Yitzchok Lebowitz Shlita.
* Satmar Shtibel of Woodridge was founded in 2002 by Rabbi Yisroel Aron Goldenberg, a spinoff from Satmar.
Hebrew Union College ( HUC ), affiliated with Reform Judaism, was founded in 1875 under the leadership of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in Cincinnati, Ohio.
It was founded by Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, and directed by Rabbi Isaac Blaser.
* The Daf Yomi programme, founded in 1923 by Rabbi Meir Shapiro: one page of the Talmud is studied each day, on a rota to ensure that Jews round the world are studying the same passage at the same time ( more recently, there have been similar programmes for the Jerusalem Talmud and other works ).
Within the Orthodox community, the AishDas Society, founded by Rabbi Micha Berger, and the Salant Foundation, founded by Rabbi Zvi Miller, are organizations which organize Musar groups, classes and other teaching events.
The Musar Institute, founded by Alan Morinis, and the Mussar Leadership Program, founded by Rabbi Ira F. Stone, are among the institutions which have sought to spread the practice of Musar in a non-Orthodox framework.
While the Zionist movement was not founded during his lifetime, it is clear from his responses to Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, and in several places in his commentary to the Bible and Siddur, that although he had a deep love for the land of Israel, he opposed a movement to wrest political independence for the land of Israel before the Messianic Era.
Following the Six Day War, Rabbi Amital founded and assumed leadership of Yeshivat Har Etzion.
He also translated and annotated Until the Mashiach: The Life of Rabbi Nachman, a day-to-day account of Rebbe Nachman's life, for the newly established Breslov Research Institute founded by Rosenfeld's son-in-law, Chaim Kramer.

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