Scholars place Antoninus Pius as the leading candidate for fulfilling the role as a friend of Rabbi Judah the Prince.

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Rabbi Judah was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

He had a close friendship with " Antoninus ", possibly Antoninus Pius, who would consult Rabbi Judah on various worldly and spiritual matters.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

In Jewish lore, blood libels were the impetus for the creation of the Golem of Prague by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel in the 16th century.

* The Mishnah, composed by Rabbi Judah the Prince, in 200 CE, as a basic outline of the state of the Oral Law in his time.

By the time of Rabbi Judah haNasi ( 200 CE ), after the destruction of Jerusalem, much of this material was edited together into the Mishnah.

However, as the persecutions of the Jews increased and the details were in danger of being forgotten, these oral laws were recorded by Rabbi Judah haNasi ( Judah the Prince ) in the Mishnah, redacted circa 200 CE.

Judah the Prince, (, Yehudah HaNasi ) or Judah I, also known as Rabbi or Rabbenu HaQadosh (, " our Master, the holy one "), was a 2nd-century CE rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah.

While teaching Torah, Rabbi Judah would often interrupt the lesson to recite the Shema prayer.

Rabbi Judah said: " Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students.

Abendana responded with a Spanish translation of Rabbi Judah Halevi's Kuzari in 1663.

Rabbi Nissim Gaon in his Hakdamah Le ' mafteach Hatalmud writes that many of these laws were so well known that it was unnecessary for Rabbi Judah to discuss them.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, Rabbi Judah could not have included discussion of Hanukkah which commemorates the Jewish revolt against the Syrian-Greeks ( the Romans would not have tolerated this overt nationalism ).

Similarly, there were then several decrees in place aimed at suppressing outward signs of national identity, including decrees against wearing tefillin and tzitzit ; as Conversion to Judaism was against Roman law, Rabbi Judah would not have discussed this.

This usually indicates that many sages taught so, or that Judah haNasi ( often called " Rabbi ") who redacted the Mishnah together with his academy / court ruled so.

But an alternative form, organized by subject matter instead of by biblical verse, became dominant by about the year 220 CE, when Rabbi Judah haNasi redacted the Mishnah.

By 220 CE, much of the Oral Law was edited together into the Mishnah, and published by Rabbi Judah haNasi.

Then he moved to Mainz, where he studied under another of his relatives, Rabbi Isaac ben Judah, the rabbinic head of Mainz and one of the leading sages of the Lorraine region straddling France and Germany.

This is true of the tractate Makkot, the concluding portions of which were composed by his son-in-law, Rabbi Judah ben Nathan, and of the tractate Bava Batra, finished ( in a more detailed style ) by his grandson, the Rashbam.

Voluminous supercommentaries have been published on Rashi's commentaries on the Bible and Talmud, including Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Judah Loew ( the Maharal ), Sefer ha-Mizrachi by Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi ( the Re ' em ), and Yeri ' ot Shlomo by Rabbi Solomon Luria ( the Maharshal ).

15 Kislev-( 188 CE )- Passing of Rabbi Judah HaNasi.

Whilst Rebbe is a term that refers to many leaders of Jewry, ' Rebbe ' or ' Rebbi ' when mentioned in the Talmud is a reference to the redactor of the Mishna, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi.

* Rabbi Judah HaNasi ( known simply as Rabbi or Rebbi ); compiled the Mishnah

Many smaller programs, such as Rabbi Benay Lappe's SVARA yeshiva, are also led by Conservative rabbis.

Rabbi Chaim Noach Levin also wrote in his notes on Megillas Yuchsin that he heard directly from Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi, the head of the Rabbinical court of Lemberg, that when he wanted to go see the remains of the Golem, the sexton of the Alt-Neu Shul said that Rabbi Yechezkel Landau had advised against going up to the attic after he himself had gone up.

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 their addresses, they also supported the communal Rabbi in helping to teach those who could not learn the spiritual and practical life of Jewish learning, and offered personal examples of Jewish conduct.

Thus, while Rabbi strengthened his ties with the wealthy, he also broadened his power base by becoming a more popular figurehead.

The Medieval rabbinic figure Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ), also known as the Rambam, wrote a commentary to tractate Sanhedrin stressing a relatively naturalistic interpretation of the Messiah and de-emphasizing miraculous elements.

Rabbi Weiss is also notable for his ordination of Sara Hurwitz, which was strongly condemned by the Haredi Agudath Yisrael ( which called it non-Orthodox ), and also firmly rejected by the Modern Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America.

He also has collaborated with other scholars to produce comparisons of Judaism and Christianity, as in The Bible and Us: A Priest and A Rabbi Read Scripture Together ( New York 1990 ; translated into Spanish and Portuguese ).

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.

One must also note that in addition to redacting the Mishnah, Rabbi and his court also ruled on which opinions should be followed, though the rulings do not always appear in the text.

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

" Moses our Teacher / Rabbi "), he is the most important prophet in Judaism, and is also considered an important prophet in Christianity and Islam, as well as a number of other faiths.

Commenting on Rabbi Yosef Karo's permission to use egg matzah, the Rema responded "… in our communities, we do not knead ( matzah ) dough with fruit juice .… And one should not change from this unless in a time of emergency for the sake of a sick or old person who needs this " Those who follow this prohibition of eating egg matzah on Passover also include chocolate covered matzah, grape flavoured matzah and the many other varieties available.

" Rabbi Rothenberg also ruled that a battered wife could petition a rabbinical court to compel a husband to grant a divorce, with a monetary fine owed her on top of the regular ketubah money.

The acronym is sometimes also fancifully expanded as Rabban Shel YIsrael ( Teacher of Israel ), or as Rabbenu SheYichyeh ( Our Rabbi, may he live ).

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.

Rashi's students, Rabbi Shemaya and Rabbi Yosef, edited the final commentary on the Torah ; some of their own notes and additions also made their way into the version we have today.