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

* Short biography of Rabbi Obadiah Sforno

Rabbi Ovadiah Yare of Bertinoro wrote in letter from Jerusalem in 1488:

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.

In writing the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Karo based his rulings on three authorities — Maimonides ( Rambam ), Asher ben Jehiel ( Rosh ), and Isaac Alfasi ( Rif ); he considered the Mordechai in inconclusive cases.

Authorities are divided on whether Rabbi recorded the Mishnah in writing or established it as an oral text for memorisation.

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:

* Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi finishes writing the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

Rabbi Joseph Schwarz writing in the mid-19th century records:

One major rabbinic contemporary who praised Luzzatto's writing was Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon ( 1720 – 1797 ), who was considered to be the most authoritative Torah sage of the modern era as well as a great kabbalist himself.

Seven hundred rabbis were contacted either in person or in writing and Rabbi Moshe Halberstam of the Edah Charedis was the first to receive semikhah after Rabbis Ovadiah Yosef and Yosef Shalom Eliashiv found him fit for this honour, although he was too old to actually serve as a judge.

Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations called her conclusions absurd, writing that " there's no such thing as a ' messianic Jew.

The Rishonim were the leading rabbis between approximately 1250 to 1550, that is in the era before the writing of the Shulkhan Arukh by Rabbi Yosef Karo, which is considered the most authoritative compilation of Jewish law since the Talmud.

The two recensions appear to differ on the question of whether the Mishnah was recorded in writing by Rabbi Judah haNasi.

It is a matter of controversy if the Zohar is his own work, or that he committed traditions going back to Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai in writing.

In fact, Rabbi Judah the Pious stipulates in the introduction to the book that one of his primary goals in writing Sefer Hasidim was to make this hidden will of God accessible to those who wish to find it.

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, writing in the Jewish Encyclopedia ( 1901 – 1906 ), says that " it is almost impossible to derive from rabbinical sources a clear picture of his personality, and modern historians have differed greatly in their estimate of him.

He is known to scholars of Judaism for his Magen Avraham commentary on the Orach Chayim section of Rabbi Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch, which he began writing in 1665 and finished in 1671.

In a letter to the Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar criticized Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam, writing: " our way is to honour every religion and every nation according to their paths, as it is written in the book of prophets: ' because every nation will go in the name of its Lord.

I am writing on behalf of a most unusual individual, Rabbi Yisroel Dov Odesser, shlita, from Israel.

Chorin answered by writing Iggeret Elasaf, or Letter of an African Rabbi to His Colleagues in Europe, which was published by M. I. Landau ( Prague, 1826 ).

* The Beit Yosef, and the Shulchan Aruch of Rabbi Yosef Karo ( 1488 – 1575 ).

; 1488 – 1575: Rabbi Yosef Karo spends 20 years compiling the Beit Yosef, an enormous guide to Jewish law.

Rabbi Trugman states that in the last five centuries the concept of reincarnation, which until then had been a much hidden tradition within Judaism, was given open exposure.

In To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks states that social justice has a central place in Judaism.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:

A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.

One account, by Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela dating from 1163 CE, states that after passing through an iron door, and descending, the caves would be encountered.

Chayey Moharan # 266 states Rabbi Nachman said " All the benefits Messiah can do for Israel, I can do ; the only difference is Messiah will decree and it will happen, but I -- ( and he stopped and did not say more ) version: I cannot finish yet "

Rabbi, states " Whatever you hate to have done unto you, do not do to your neighbor ; wherefore do not hurt him ; do not speak ill of him ; do not reveal his secrets to others ; let his honor and his property be as dear to thee as thine own " ( Midrash Avot deRabbi Natan.

As the Mishna in Tractate Peah ( 1: 1 ) states: " The study of Torah is equal to all of the mitzvos ", the Gaon encouraged his chief pupil, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, to found a yeshiva ( college ) in which rabbinic literature should be taught.

Therefore, Rabbi Bigman states, " There is no prohibition whatsoever of innocent singing ; rather, only singing intended for sexual stimulation, or flirtatious singing, is forbidden.

The organisation also states the following have been released as a result of their campaigning: Mallam Turi, Zeenah Ibrahim from Nigeria ; Sheikh Al-Jamri, Bahrain ; Huda Kaya, Bekir Yildiz, Recep Tayyep Erdogan, Nurilhak Saatcioglu, Nurcihan Saatioglu, Turkey ; Sheikh Ahmed Yassine, Abdul Aziz Rantissi, Rabbi Biton, Sheikh Abdulkareem Obeid, Mustafa Dirani from Israeli detention ; Mohammed Mahdi Akef, Egypt ; Dr. Muhammad Osman Elamin, Sudan ; Cehl Meeah, Mauritius ; Abbasi Madani and Ali Behadj, Algeria.

However, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn states that the status of ger toshav will continue to exist, even in the Messianic era.

The film is mentioned when Rabbi Krustofski states, " Oh, if you were a musician or a jazz singer, this I could forgive!

( Above it states that he left commerce and became a Rabbi in 1830.

While the date of the first settlement of Jews in the regions the Romans called Germania Superior, Germania Inferior, and Germania Magna is not known, the first authentic document relating to a large and well-organized Jewish community in these regions dates from 321 and refers to Cologne on the Rhine .— have been renovated and opened, and Berlin's annual week of Jewish culture and the Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin, held for the 21st time, featuring concerts, exhibitions, public readings and discussions can only partially explain why Rabbi Yitzhak Ehrenberg of the orthodox Jewish community in Berlin states: " Orthodox Jewish life is alive in Berlin again.

The Midrash Rabbah states that Rabbi Bar Kappera was of the opinion that mourning should peak on the third day.

In Aruch HaShulchan, Rabbi Epstein cites the source of each law as found in the Talmud and Maimonides, and states the halakhic decision as found in the Shulchan Aruch with the glosses of Rema.

The Talmud states that during the time of Rabbi Akiva, 24, 000 of his students died from a divinely sent plague during the counting of the Omer.

Rabbi David Feldman states that the Talmud discusses the time of ensoulment, but considers the question unanswerable and irrelevant to the abortion question.

In the Midrash on Psalms 118 it states that Bruriah taught her husband, Rabbi Meir, to pray for the repentance of the wicked, rather than for their destruction.