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.

The Litvish Haredi newspaper Yated Ne ' eman, which is controlled by leading Litvish Haredi rabbis including Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv and Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, accused the rabbis of transgressing a decree punishable by ' death through the hands of heaven.

Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet, of Barcelona, studied under Hasdai Crescas and Rabbi Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi.

Influenced by the teaching of Rabbi Nissim of Gerona, via Ephraim Vidal's Yeshiva in Majorca, Duran's commentary Magen Avot (" The Shield of the Fathers "), which influenced Joseph Albo, is important.

Notable rabbis who reside in Bnei Brak today are Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, Rabbi Shmuel Wosner and Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky.

Rabbi Nissim Karelitz, chief Rabbi ( av beis din ) of the Lithuanian Haredi community, heads a beth din of Lithuanian and Hasidic dayanim, called She ' aris Yisroel.

" According to Katz, Rabbi Nissim of Gerona ( the Ran ) visited the Cochini Jews, and they preserve in their song books the poem he wrote about them.

The Medieval Rabbi Nissim of Gerona ( commonly called Ran ) traces it back to the Aramaic word for " calm " ( cf.

In 1973 Yosef was elected the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel by a majority of 81 to 68 votes, replacing Yitzhak Nissim.

* Nissim of Gerona, Rabbi Nissim ben Reuven

Rabbi Nissim of Gerona ( the RaN ) compiled a detailed and explicit commentary on this work ; In yeshivot " the Rif and the RaN " are regularly studied as part of the daily Talmudic schedule.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev served as a Rabbi, Shochet, Mohel and Chazzan in Israel and abroad.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev began his Torah activities in his youth when in 1968 he established Torah youth clubs named " Irgun Yeladim Lomdei Torah " ( Eilat ) ( Association of Children Who Study Torah ) in memory of the IDF soldiers who perished in the Eilat submarine.

In 1971 Rabbi Nissim Zeev served as a Rabbi and Shochet in the " Ein Haeemkek " Moshav.

In 1978 – Rabbi Nissim zeev served as Rabbi and Chazzan of the " Sephardic Jewish Center " in Brooklyn, New York.

Chief Rabbi of Cyprus, Arie Zeev Raskin meets the Cyprus President, Demetris Christofias.

* Rabbi Shmuel Brazil, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Zeev Hatorah

In 1979 – Rabbi Nissim Zeev established the grand spiritual and physical enterprise for Sephardic Jewish girls in Jerusalem, the " Nevat Israel " Institutes – ranging from kindergarten, to elementary schools to high schools and to a teaching seminary to train teachers and kindergarten teachers.

As a result, the Shas party ran for the first time for the local municipality elections in Jerusalem with Rabbi Nissim Zeev at its head.

Between the years 1983 – 1998 Rabbi Nissim Zeev served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in charge of the Welfare Department, as well as Chairman of the Allotments of Land for Public Institutes, Chairman of the Exemption Committee for Arnona discounts.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev left the chair of the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem upon being elected as Member of Knesset of the Shas Party.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev serves as a dominant Knesset Member who acts through the educational and value oriented views which serve to defend and battle without compromise for the indigenous Jewish identity of the State of Israel and for the welfare of each individual and the entire population.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev are: the Law to Increase Child Allotments, Law to Punish Terrorists, Abortion Law, Incitement Law, Law to Recognize the Rights of Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands ( Upon the Establishment of the State of Israel ), as well as dozens of laws for the benefit of the public.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev served as Chairman of the Knesset Committee on the War Against Drugs and Alcohol.

Rabbi Nissim Zeev is currently serving his fourth term as Knesset Member in the 18th Knesset.

* An M. A on his works by Rabbi Binyamin Zeev Benedict

In 1981-1982, Zeev Yeivin and Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun dug out from the bedrock area of the presumed site of the Tabernacle.

In the 19th century, Rabbi Israel Salanter initiated the Mussar movement in non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jewry, which sought to encourage yeshiva students and the wider community to spend regular times devoted to the study of Jewish ethical works.

There was, however, a gradual movement towards prohibition, mainly initiated by the Medieval Ashkenazi Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg ( the Maharam ).

He was also active in Israel as president of Kollel Vohlin, raising and distributing the money to support the Hasidic community in the Land of Israel, and initiated the construction of Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, which was completed by his son, Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, in 1872.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

In 1947, with the participation of Rabbi Simon Greenberg his efforts toward that end culminated in the establishment of the American Jewish University, then known as the University of Judaism.

His empathy towards the non-religious elements aroused the suspicions of his more traditionalist haredi opponents, particularly that of the traditional rabbinical establishment that had functioned from the time of Turkey's control of greater Palestine, whose paramount leader was Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

Detailed records of the communities were collected by Rabbi Dr. Aron Tänzer, who served the community from 1907-1937, and who was also a driving force behind the establishment of the secular city library in Göppingen.

Before the formation of UTJ and the establishment of Degel HaTorah, the two factions were united under one united Agudat Yisrael party, but the late mentor and supreme guide of the non-Hasidic group, Rabbi Elazar Shach ( 1898-2001 ) broke away from the Hasidic wing when it was clear that the party was not living up to its mandate to represent all Torah Jewry.

The university was named for Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan ( originally Meir Berlin ), a Religious Zionist leader who served as the inspiration for its establishment.

The Jewish Institute of Religion was an educational establishment created by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise in 1922 in New York City.

Rabbi Nahum was also active in international affairs, assisting in the establishment of contacts between Jews throughout the world.

His call for the establishment of a synagogue on the Temple Mount has subsequently been reiterated by his brother-in-law the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, She ' ar Yashuv Cohen.

Rabbi Rosen, who felt always a proud Jew and had a good acquaintance with the Romanian culture, found a place in the frame of the new Romanian diplomacy and became one of Romania's important non official " ambassadors " on the international scene.

The Rabbi gives Lucilla sanctuary, but to save his organization he must deliver her to the Matres.

In a practical sense, what distinguishes Hasidic Judaism from other forms of Haredi Judaism is the close-knit organization of Hasidic communities centered around a Rebbe ( sometimes translated as " Grand Rabbi "), and various customs and modes of dress particular to each community.

In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel of Illinois established an organization on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to provide both Reform and Orthodox Sabbath services, classes in Judaism and social events for Jewish college students.

The organization preceding ZAKA started when a group of volunteers under the leadership of Rabbi Elazar Gelbstein gathered to assist in the recovery of human remains from a terrorist attack on bus line 405 in Israel in 1989.

The Jerusalem ZAKA organization was founded in the 1990s by Yehuda Meshi Zahav and Rabbi Moshe Aizenbach and Rabbi Zvika Rosental, the Director of ZAKA Tel Aviv, as a non-profit organization in addition to its police status.

This arrangement succeeded the ZAKA organization founded by Rabbi Gelbstein in 1989.

Jews for Judaism, established by Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz in 1985, is an international organization designed to counter Christian missionaries whose evangelistic efforts are directed toward Jews.

* 2003: Rabbi Janet Marder was named the first female president of the Reform Movement's Central Conference of American Rabbis ( CCAR ) on March 26, 2003, making her the first woman to lead a major rabbinical organization and the first woman to lead any major Jewish co-ed religious organization in the United States.

Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz ( 1886, Világ, Austria-Hungary ( now Svetlice, Slovakia )-7 September 1948 ) was an early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath, a Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and Torah U ' Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization.

Rabbi Moshe Cohen, of Yad L ’ Achim, an Israel-based Counter-Missionary organization, has identified Al Dawaa, an Israeli-based Muslim group headed by Sheikh Abu Yassin of Kfar Manda.

Religious centre ) is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines.

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was the American head of Mizrachi, the organization of religious Zionists.

Rabbi Haskel Lookstein of the Orthodox Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun served as the organization's final president lamented the lack of " people who are really interested in maintaining the organization.

The organization would be a parent body for boards of rabbis in individual communities, with its first president being Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier, who was then serving as president of the New York Board of Rabbis.

Israel Army Radio interviewed Rabbi Shmuel Papenheim who announced, “ The Rabbinical Court has held a special session and discussed placing a ‘ pulsa denura ’ on those who have had a hand in organizing the march .” Papenheim, editor of the haredi religious umbrella organization ’ s weekly magazine, added that the rabbis were also considering placing the curse “ against the policemen who beat hareidi Jews .”

Rabbi Samuel Mohilever was elected the president and Leon Pinsker the chairman of the organization they named Hovevei Zion.

The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation ( established in 1989 ) is a non-profit Orthodox Jewish organization based in Monsey, New York, United States, dedicated to spreading the teachings of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan who was known as the Chofetz Chaim ( " Seeker Life " in Hebrew ) based on his work of Jewish ethics of the same name dealing with the prohibitions of gossip, slander and defamation known as Lashon Hara in Jewish law ( Halakha ).

The Central Conference of American Rabbis ( CCAR ), founded in 1889 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the principal organization of Reform rabbis in the United States and Canada, the CCAR is the largest and oldest rabbinical organization in the world.

The student organization was informally started and managed by Rabbi Daniel & Ziva Glanz and functions under the Office of Student Life.