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.

Rabbi Judah HaNasi also said, " One who is ignorant of the Torah should not eat meat.

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

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 ).

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.

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

The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.

Rabbi Eleazar Chisma said: the laws of mixed bird offerings and the key to the calculations of menstruation days — these, these are the body of the halakhah.

The Mishnah has many sayings about the World to Come, for example, " Rabbi Yaakov said: This world is like a lobby before the World to Come ; prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall.

" Rabbi Huna said in the name of Rabbi Joseph, ' The generation of the Flood was not wiped out until they wrote marriage documents for the union of a man to a male or to an animal.

Tendler said that Rabbi Greenberg's announcement is " the exact same as if he said, ' I'm an Orthodox Rabbi and I eat ham sandwiches on Yom Kippur.

" ( Genesis 1: 31 )— Midrash: Rabbi Nahman said in Rabbi Samuel's name: " Behold, it was good " refers to the Good Desire ; " And behold, it was very good " refers to the Evil Desire.

In 1957, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, then lecturer at the Jews ' College and best friend of Laurence Kogan, London ; published his book " We Have Reason to Believe " ( Edited by Laurence Kogan and Adam Albert ), in which he said:

Rabbi Hiyya the Great said Solomon first wrote Book of Proverbs, then Song of Songs, and afterward Ecclesiastes.

Rabbi Jonathan said Solomon first wrote Song of Songs, then Proverbs, then Ecclesiastes.

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 Shalom Buzaglo said, " Rashbi -- may his merit protect us -- said ( Zohar Vol.

Rabbi Shimon said some words and they were calmed.

" At that instant a heavenly voice emerged and said, " Fortunate are you Rabbi Shimon!

Much against his will, the Danish government, to which Altona then belonged, abolished this right of the Altona Rabbi in 1863.

Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor ר ַ ב ִּ י י ִ צ ְ ח ַ ק ס ַ ג ִּ י נ ְ הו ֹ ר, also known as Isaac the Blind, ( c. 1160-1235, Provence, France ) has the Aramaic epithet " Saggi Nehor " meaning " of Much Light " in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind.

Much more recently, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has taken the title nasi, in an attempt to re-establish the Sanhedrin in its judicial capacity as the Supreme Court of Judaism.

" Other notable writers who have explored regional and ethnic communities in their detective novels are Harry Kemelman, whose Rabbi Small series were set the Conservative Jewish community of Massachusetts ; Walter Mosley, whose Easy Rawlins books are set in the African American community of 1950s Los Angeles ; and Sara Paretsky, whose V. I. Warshawski books have explored the various subcultures of Chicago.

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 Louis Finkelstein, scholar of the JTSA, wrote: " There are those who would think that we have but two alternatives, to reject or to accept the law, but in either case to treat it as a dead letter.

Rabbi Bradley Artson, Dean of the Rabbinic School at American Jewish University claims to have studied every reference he could find to homosexual activity mentioned in ancient Greek and Latin writers.

Rabbi is credited with publishing the Mishnah, though there have been a few edits since his time ( for example, those passages that cite him or his grandson, Rabbi Yehuda Nesi ' ah ; in addition, the Mishnah at the end of Tractate Sotah refers to the period after Rabbi's death, which could not have been written by Rabbi himself ).

Originally she was believed to be either Rabbi Meir's wife mentioned above, or Rabbi Chaninyah's daughter mentioned above, however over the past 3-4 centuries Rabbinic scholars have realized that these generations do not correspond to Beruryah's law decisions, and life, therefore she today is just ' Beruryah ' and of heretofore unknown lineage.

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.

* Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally based most of their practices on the Rema, the gloss on the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moses Isserles, reflecting differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi custom.

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:

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.