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.

By Rabbi Isaiah di Trani.

Among the longer are “ A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem ” ( a rehabilitation of Judas Iscariot ), “ A Jewish Rabbi in Rome ,” “ The Tragedy of Nero ” and “ Ginevra di Siena .” The last named, with “ Cleopatra ,” was included in his Graffiti d ' Italia, a collection published in 1868.

Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman wrote that reincarnation is an " ancient, mainstream belief in Judaism.

" Rabbi Joseph Telushkin wrote, " Most of the great women in the Bible either are married to a great man or related to one.

Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that " By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought " and asserted in his book Basic Judaism ( 1947 ) that " Judaism has never arrived at a creed.

In his commentary on the Talmud, Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ) wrote:

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.

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.

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 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.

The head of the Israeli Masorti movement's Vaad Halakha ( equivalent to the CJLS ), Rabbi David Golinkin, wrote the CJLS protesting its reconsideration of the traditional ban on homosexual conduct.

" Reacting against the blurring of theological distinctions, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits wrote that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

* Rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro ( 15th century ) wrote one of the most popular Mishnah commentaries.

* Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ginsburg wrote a commentary looking for the ethical messages found within the text in his " Musar HaMishnah ".

Rabbi Philip R. Alstat, an early leader of Conservative Judaism, known for his fiery rhetoric and powerful oratory skills, wrote and spoke in 1939 about the power of the Passover story during the rise of Nazi persecution and terror:

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi wrote that " Rashi ’ s commentary on Torah is the ‘ wine of Torah ’.

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.

Some claim the tradition that Rabbi Shimon wrote that the concealment of the Zohar would last for exactly 1200 years from the time of destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

There are those who attribute Sifra diTzni ` uta to the patriach Yaakov ; however, Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi of Kamarno in his book Zohar Chai wrote, " Sifra diTzni ` uta was composed by Rashbi ... and he arranged from baraitas which were transmitted to Tannaim from mount Sinai from the days of Moshe, similar to the way Rabeinu HaKadosh arranged the six orders of Mishnah from that which was repeated from before.

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Ziditchov wrote a commentary on the Zohar entitled Ateres Tzvi.

Many visitors wrote about Hebron over the next two centuries, among them Nachmanides ( 1270 ), Ishtori HaParchi ( 1322 ) and Rabbi Meshulam from Volterra ( 1481 ).

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.

Central Conference of American Rabbis ( CCAR ) President Rabbi Simeon J. Maslin wrote a pamphlet about Reform Judaism, entitled " What We Believe ... What We Do ...".

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.

Rabbi Solevetchik taught all religious Ashkenazi Jews with the exception of hardline Hasidim, not should, or if they show motivation, but must teach their female children Gemarah like the boy school children.

Rabbi Lau pointed out that if the world had reacted to the massacre of Babi Yar, perhaps the Holocaust might never have happened.

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:

Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela reported a story reminiscent of the roc in which shipwrecked sailors had themselves carried off desert islands by wrapping ox-hides round them and letting griffins carry them off as if they were cattle.

* Rabbi, oral address Rabbi ( or, if holder of the appropriate degree, Doctor both in oral and written communication ) — rabbis

Soloveitchik's daughter Dr. Atarah Twersky recalls Soloveitchik saying that Rabbi Schneerson visited her father in his apartment and the former asked the latter why he was studying in Berlin if his father-in-law was opposed to it.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson issued a call to every Jew: " Even if you are not fully committed to a Torah life, do something.

"< ref Akiba-The Story of Rabbi Akiba and his times by Rabbi Dr M. Lehmann ) moved Akiva, and he told her that he could only dedicate himself to Torah if he had a wife like her by his side.

Yucef asked the doctor if he could see a Rabbi.

The Talmud also uses this spelling irregularity to suggest, according to the opinion of Rabbi Yehudah in the name of Rabbi Tarfon, that the lulav must be bound if its leaves spread away from the spine of the palm.

The tractate Sanhedrin 64a attributes to Rab through Rabbi Judah the story of a sick Gentile woman who vowed to worship every idol in the world if she recovered.

Rabbi Weissmandl pointed out that if you combine the three small letters together they form the word, which in the accepted Hebrew notation for year numbers ( using Gematria ) corresponds to the Jewish year 707 Anno Mundi, which is the Jewish year that the 10 Nazi leaders were executed ( October 16, 1946 corresponds to Tishrei 21, 5707, the day known as Hoshanna Rabba, the day of severe judgments for the nations of the world, according to the Jewish calendar ).

... Is it not a case of a fortiori, that regarding the School of Shammai — that the halakhah does not go according to them — they Talmudic Sages said ‘ if practices like the School of Shammai may do so, but according to their leniencies and their stringencies ’: The RaMBaM, is the greatest of all the Torah authorities, and all the communities of the Land of Israel and the Arab-controlled lands and the West Africa practice according to his word, and accepted him upon themselves as their Chief Rabbi.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz the Nasi of the Sanhedrin said < cite > I'd be happy if in another few years these chairs are filled by scholars who are greater than us and we can say: ` I kept the chairs warm for you.

Rabbi Shammah simply takes this logic further, and concludes that if a man judges himself sincerely and honestly, that in a particular case, he will not be enticed by a woman's voice, he may listen to her sing, even ordinary songs in concerts, and the like, depending on the case.

As is written in the book Iggrot HaTanya in the name of the Gaon of Vilna who does not believe in the Kabbalah of the Ari in its entirety that it is wholly from the mouth of Elijah z " l, only a small portion is from the mouth of Elijah z " l, and the rest is from his great knowledge and it is not required to believe it ... and thus wrote Rabbi Chaim Volozhin in the foreword to his book ... and if so, why all this awe that we should put aside the words of all the Poskim and all of the laws because of the opinion of the Ari z " l?

According to two majority opinions, by Rabbi Grossman and Rabbi Reisner, the " seven clean days " need not be observed today and women may immerse and resume sexual relations after seven days from the beginning of menstruation, or after its cessation, if it lasts longer than seven days.

" as if the word " rabbah " belonged originally to the name of the amora, and that the name of the work, " Genesis Rabba ," is an abbreviation of " Bereshit derabbi Hoshayah rabbah ," is untenable for the reason that in the best manuscripts — and in a very old quotation — the name " Rabbi Hoshayah " stands without the addition " rabbah " in the first preface at the beginning of the midrash.