* The Sefer Mitzvot Gadol ( The " SeMaG ") of Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy ( first half of the 13th century, Coucy, Northern France ).

* The Arba ' ah Turim ( The Tur, The Four Columns ) by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher ( 1270 – 1343, Toledo, Spain ).

# According to Rabbi Jose b. Hanina, each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening prayers.

In 1889, he emigrated to the United States with his mother and sisters to join his father in New York City who was working with the Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

He received semikhah from Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines while on his honeymoon.

As a group of Reform Rabbis convened in Braunschweig, Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger of Altona published a manifest in German and Hebrew " Shlomei Emunei Yisrael " having 177 Rabbis signing on.

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.

Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir ( known as Rabbeinu Tam ), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel.

The Tosefta has been translated into English by Rabbi Jacob Neusner and his students in the commentary cited above, also published separately as The Tosefta: translated from the Hebrew ( 6 vols, 1977-86 )

** Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero-Jewish kabbalist from Safed, Israel

“ Scholars and Friends: Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg and Professor Samuel Atlas ,” in The Torah u-Madda Journal v. 7 ( 1997 ): 105-21.

* Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schachter

* Jacob Saul Elyashar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Ottoman Palestine

* Jacob Meir, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine

Leon Kieres, the President of IPN, also met in New York with Rabbi Jacob Baker ( formerly Yaakov Eliezer Piekarz ) who had emigrated in 1938 from Jedwabne to the United States.

Other private schools in Edison include the Wardlaw-Hartridge School, Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, Yeshiva Shaarei Tzion, Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva, St. Helena School, St. Matthew School, Lakeview School and Our Lady Of Peace School.

* Tomer Devorah ( The Palm Tree of Deborah ) by Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

In furtherance of this plan he studied Talmud from 1828 to 1829 in Mannheim under Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger.

; 1270 – 1343: Rabbi Jacob ben Asher of Spain writes the Arba ' ah Turim ( Four Rows of Jewish Law ).

Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger

When Jacob Berab died, Karo was regarded as his successor, and together with Rabbi Moshe of Trani he headed the Rabbinical Court of Safed.

The Shulchan Aruch ( and its forerunner, the Beit Yosef ) follow the same structure as Arba ' ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher.

Most are found in the works of Rabbi Jacob Joseph of Polnoy.

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 Emden-Eybeschutz controversy was a serious rabbinical disputation with wider political ramifications in Europe that followed the accusations by Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) who was a fierce opponent of the Sabbateans, against Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz ( 1690 – 1764 ) whom he accused of being a secret Sabbatean.

Rabbi Jacob Emden was a student of his father Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi a Rabbi in Amsterdam.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on Gentile: Gentiles May Not Be Taught the Torah, Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) claimed:

In 1755, when the Gaon was thirty-five, Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz, then sixty-five years old, applied to him for an examination of and decision concerning his amulets, which were a subject of discord between himself and Rabbi Jacob Emden.

Rabbi Emden of the 18th century was of the opinion that Jesus ' original objective, and especially Paul's, was only to convert Gentiles to Noahide Law while allowing Jews to follow full Mosaic Law.

Additionally, according to Rabbi Jacob Emden, the Fast of the Firstborn, like the Fast of Esther ( which occurs approximately a month prior ), commemorates the salvation of the Jews from the plot of Haman.

Rabbi Jacob Emden accused him of heresy ; see The Emden-Eybeschutz Controversy.

* Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ), Rabbi, talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Shabbethaians

* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

* Steinsaltz. org – The website of The Aleph Society and Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

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.

It has been said that Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg ( 1859 – 1935 ) originated the idea that the narrative dates from the time of the Maharal.

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.

Rabbi Chaim Volozhin ( Lithuania 1749 – 1821 ) reports in an introduction to Siphra Dzeniouta ( 1818 ) that he once presented to his teacher, the Vilna Gaon, ten different versions of a certain passage in the Sefer Yetzira and asked the Gaon to determine the correct text.

* The Hilchot of the Rif, Rabbi Isaac Alfasi ( 1013 – 1103 ), summations of the legal material in the Talmud.

* The Beit Yosef, and the Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Yosef Karo ( 1488 – 1575 ).

The Mishnah Berurah of Rabbi Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen, ( the " Chofetz Chaim ", Poland, 1838 – 1933 ) is a commentary on the " Orach Chayim " section of the Shulchan Aruch, discussing the application of each Halakha in light of all subsequent Acharonic decisions.

Aruch HaShulchan by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein ( 1829 – 1888 ) is a scholarly analysis of Halakha through the perspective of the major Rishonim.

The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried ( Hungary 1804 – 1886 ), based on the very strict Hungarian customs of the 19th century, became immensely popular after its publication due to its simplicity.

Mosheh ben Maimon ( משה בן מימון )‎, called Moses Maimonides and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (), or RaMBaM ( רמב " ם – Hebrew acronym for " Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon "), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the most prolific and followed Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

Maimonides studied Torah under his father Maimon, who had in turn studied under Rabbi Joseph ibn Migash – a student of Isaac Alfasi.

It was redacted 220 CE by Rabbi Yehudah haNasi when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions dating from Pharisaic times ( 536 BCE – 70 CE ) would be forgotten.

* Mishna Audio – given by Rabbi Chaim Brown in English

* 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

* 1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.

* 1974 – Shmuel Herzfeld, American Rabbi

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.