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

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.

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.

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology ( subsequently dubbed Kahanism ), the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures.

The Talmud records a tradition that unattributed statements of the law represent the views of Rabbi Meir ( Sanhedrin 86a ), which supports the theory ( recorded by Rav Sherira Gaon in his famous Iggeret ) that he was the author of an earlier collection.

For this reason, the few passages that actually say " this is the view of Rabbi Meir " represent cases where the author intended to present Rabbi Meir's view as a " minority opinion " not representing the accepted law.

One theory is that the present Mishnah was based on an earlier collection by Rabbi Meir.

It is possible that Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir established the divisions and order of subjects in the Mishnah, but this would make them the authors of a school curriculum rather than of a book.

One of the most important Ashkenazic Rabbanim of the past century was Rabbi Meir Kagan or the Hafetz Haim.

* Robert Goldenberg The Sabbath-Law of Rabbi Meir ( Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1978 )

* The " Master Torah " Mishnah Ba ' al Peh Program by Rabbi Meir Pogrow.

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

Gush Emunim are the settlement wing of National Union ( Israel ) and support widespread kiruv as well, through such institutions as Machon Meir, Merkaz HaRav and Rabbi Shlomo Aviner.

Examples are Bruriah, the wife of the Tanna Rabbi Meir ; Rachel, the wife of Rabbi Akiva ; and Yalta, the wife of Rabbi Nachman.

94 ) relates about an encounter between Rabbi Meir and a Samaritan.

: Rabbi Meir: What tribe are you from?

: Rabbi Meir: No!

: Rabbi Meir: From Issachar.

: Rabbi Meir: For it is written ( Gen 46: 13 ): The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a " nebbish ," saying, " He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype.

* Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, author.

His eldest disciple, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, directed yeshivas in Kelm and Grobin.

In the following generation, leaders of the Musar movement included Simcha Zissel's student Nosson Tzvi Finkel of Slobodka, and Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz of Novaradok.

At a young age, he went to study at the Kelm Talmud Torah under Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, " the Alter of Kelm.

# Grand Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter ( April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992 ), also known as the Lev Simcha.

Only son of Rabbi Simcha Bunim.

His father Simcha was the son of Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka ( Gorodenka ), one of the Baal Shem Tov's disciples, after whom Rebbe Nachman was named.

Prominent recent authorities who have written commentaries on the work include Rabbis Meir Simcha of Dvinsk ( Ohr Somayach ), Chaim Soloveitchik ( Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim ), Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov ( Tevunah ), Isser Zalman Meltzer ( Even HaEzel ) and, more recently, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( Hadran al HaRambam ), Elazar Shach ( Avi Ezri ) and Rabbi Yosef Kapach.

* Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv

* Rabbi Simcha Krauss, retired Rabbi of the Young Israel of Hillcrest, Queens, and former leader of the Religious Zionists of America

Having received semicha at 17, he continued his studies under Rabbi Simcha Bunim Schreiber ( the Shevet Sofer, grandson of the Chatam Sofer ).

His father, Reuven Dov Dessler, was a disciple of one of the main leaders of the Mussar movement, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, best known as the Alter ( Elder ) of Kelm.

One of his most prominent students and a close friend, Rabbi Yisrael Avraham Abba Krieger, adopted his name since Rabbi Meir Simcha had no surviving children, carrying the full name Yisrael Avraham Abba Meir Simcha Krieger.

Rabbi Meir Simcha authored Ohr Somayach ( or Ohr Sameiach ) (" The delighted, or happy, light "), a play on his name, possibly derived from Proverbs 13: 9 ), a collection of novellae on Maimonides ' Mishneh Torah.

In the late 1970s several baal teshuva yeshivas under Haredi Judaism auspices were founded and chose to honor the memory of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk by calling themselves by his pen name for his work " Ohr Somayach ".

Both he and his elder brother Simcha ( d. 1812 ) studied under Rabbi Aryeh Leib Gunzberg the author of the Shaagas Aryeh, who was then rabbi of Volozhin, and afterward under Rabbi Raphael ha-Kohen ( the author of the Toras Yekusiel ), later of Hamburg.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

The dissenters, who included Rabbi Joel Roth as well as a partial concurrence by Rabbi Daniel Nevins, argued for reaffirming the classical halakhic framework in which human decrees inform and often limit but never wholly abrogate law believed to be of Divine origin, stating that " we should acknowledge that God's law is beyond our authority to eliminate ", but should continue the traditional approach of applying strict evidentiary rules and presumptions that tend to render enforcement unlikely.

* The Shulchan Aruch HaRav of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( c. 1800 ) was an attempt to recodify the law as it stood at that time — incorporating commentaries on the Shulchan Aruch, and subsequent responsa — and thus stating the decided halakha, as well as the underlying reasoning.

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.

" 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.

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.

Since one does not need to be an ordained Rabbi to be a Rebbe, some points in history there were female Rebbes as well, particularly the Maiden of Ludmir.

Sara is a manhigah Toranit, with the knowledge to teach Torah, the written as well as the oral law in every aspect of Jewish learning ," said Rabbi Avi Weiss, Rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in NY.

* 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.

Rabbi Akiva would also regard as heretical the readers of Sefarim Hetsonim – certain extraneous writings that were not canonized – as well such persons that would heal through whispered formulas of magic.

The Conservative movement, however, has clashed with Orthodoxy over its refusal to recognize the Conservative and Reform movements as legitimate, and in February 1997 Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, claimed that Orthodox organizations in Israel politically discriminate against non-Orthodox Jews, and called on Reform and Conservative Jews, as well as the Jewish Federations throughout the United States, to stop funding Orthodox organizations and institutions that disagree with the Conservative view of pluralism.

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.

" Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, said the use of the Nazi swastika by vandals was anti-Polish as well as anti-Semitic, and that " Non-Jewish Poles also suffered horribly under the Nazis ... the vast majority of Poles are appalled by what ’ s just happened.

Similar works are Ba ' er Heitev and Sha ' arei Teshuvah / Pitchei Teshuvah ( usually published as commentaries in most editions of the Shulchan Aruch as well as Kitzur Shulchan Aruch ( by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried of Hungary ).

* Rav Dr. Moshe David Tendler-Rav Tendler is the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics, and is a Professor of Biology, as well as being a Rosh Yeshiva in Yeshivat Rav Yitzchak Elchanan ( MYP / RIETS ).

Rabbi Schneerson's mother said her son never attended any Soviet school, though he took the exams as an external student and did well on them According to Avrum Ehrlich, he immersed himself in Jewish studies while simultaneously qualifying for Russian secondary school.

In 1933 he also met with Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapiro, as well as with famed talmudist Rabbi Shimon Shkop.

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.