A teacher of the 3rd century, Rabbi Simlai, traces the development of Jewish religious principles from Moses with his 613 mitzvot of prohibition and injunction, through David, who, according to this rabbi, enumerates eleven ; through Isaiah, with six ; Micah, with three ; to Habakkuk who simply but impressively sums up all religious faith in the single phrase, " The pious lives in his faith " ( Talmud, Mak., toward end ).

The numbering was first made by Rabbi Simlai in Talmud Makkot 23b.

According to Rabbi Simlai, as quoted in the Talmud, this enumeration of 613 commandments was representative of the following.

A statement by Rabbi Simlai in the Talmud claims that " The Torah begins with chesed and ends with chesed.

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.

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 Mordecai Kaplan, who developed Reconstructionist Judaism and taught at the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary of America, also rejected the idea of a personal God, Kaplan instead thought of God " as a force, like gravity, built into the very structure of the universe ," believing that " since the universe is constructed to enable us to gain personal happiness and communal solidarity when we act morally, it follows that there is a moral force in the universe ; this force is what the Constructionists mean by God ," although some Reconstructionists do believe in a personal God.

Intensive study of the Torah ( Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy with the commentary of Rashi ( Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi 1040-1105 ) is stressed and taught in all elementary grades, often with Yiddish translations and more notes in Haredi yeshivas.

Based on the Hasidic writings of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz, he taught that anything, even what others consider sin and heresy could be God's will.

Rabbi Dov Ber taught that only the tzadik is able to remove all his thoughts from earthly things and concentrate completely on God.

Gush Emunim's beliefs were based heavily on the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and his son, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, who taught that secular Zionists, through their conquests of Eretz Israel, had unwittingly brought about the beginning of the Messianic age, which would culminate in the coming of the messiah, which Gush Emunim supporters believe can be hastened through Jewish settlement on land they believe God has allotted to the Jewish people as set forth in the Hebrew Bible.

This mantra was not used by Rebbe Nachman himself, but was taught in the 20th century by Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser.

Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel taught: " The world rests on three things: justice, truth, and peace " ( Avot 1: 18 ).

Hasidism's founder was Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov (" master of a good name " usually applied to a saintly Jew who was also a wonder-worker ), or simply " the Besht "; he taught that man's relationship with God depended on immediate religious experience, in addition to knowledge and observance of the details of the Torah and Talmud.

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.

After the death of Rabbi Akiva's 24, 000 students, Rabbi Akiva taught five students, among them Rabbi Shimon.

According to the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon's house was filled with fire and light that entire day as he taught his students.

* Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik, appointed by Rabbi Hutner to give the highest daily lecture in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; also taught at Yeshiva University, Hebrew Theological College and Brisk Rabbinical College

As a teenager he studied at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva, where he advanced to the highest shiur taught by the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Ezra Attiya.

The distinguished deceased who was our Teacher and Rabbi at Porat Yosef Yeshiva in the Old City taught us to halakha for practical purposes and not engage in futile pilpulim which shall fade and be carried away by the wind.

The American Jewish Committee condemned Yosef's remarks, stating that " Rabbi Yosef ’ s remarks – suggesting outrageously that Jewish scripture asserts non-Jews exist to serve Jews – are abhorrent and an offense to human dignity and human equality [...] Judaism first taught the world that all individuals are created in the divine image, which helped form the basis of our moral code.

In the Talmud he is said to have taught Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha hygiene.

Based on the teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the Baal Shem Tov and the Ohr ha-Chaim, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi taught in the name of the Zohar that " He who breathed life into man, breathed from Himself.

After the Six Day War, Rabbi Shlomo Goren famously approached the Wall and sounded the shofar.

Following the Six Day War, Rabbi Amital founded and assumed leadership of Yeshivat Har Etzion.

In 1988 the American Reform movement published Six Days of Destruction ( Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Albert Friedlander ).

Rabbi Brandwein was one of the first Jewish settlers within the Old City of Jerusalem after the Six Day War.

More than two hundred years after Rabbi Nachman's passing, tens of thousands flock to his gravesite for Rosh HaShanah.

The principle of tikkun is also found throughout the teachings of ( Rabbi Isaac Luria ), who preceded Rebbe Nachman by several hundred years.

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.

This attempt was intended to be an improvement on Rabbi Jacob Berab's attempt by contacting seven hundred rabbis across Israel, as opposed to Jacob Berab's election by twenty five rabbis of Safed.

Rabbi Yochanan was known for being fat and beautiful and reportedly lived more than one hundred years.

Inauguration of Rabbi Samuel Belkin, PH. D., as president, Tuesday afternoon, May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and forty-four, at three o ' clock, in the Nathan Lamport auditorium.

This is not limited to the traditional thirteen textual tools attributed to the Tanna Rabbi Ishmael, which are used in the interpretation of halakha ( Jewish law ).

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Rabbi Joseph Albo, for instance, in Sefer Ha-Ikkarim counts three principles of faith, while Maimonides lists thirteen.

Summaries of the principles by which Torah can be interpreted date back at least to Hillel the Elder, although the thirteen principles set forth in the Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael are perhaps the best known.

* Cheshbon HaNefesh ( Accounting of the Soul ) by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lefin of Satanov ( based in part on Benjamin Franklin's idea of the thirteen virtues )

Ozzie Freedman, a Jewish-American boy about thirteen years old, confronts his Hebrew school teacher, Rabbi Binder, with challenging questions: especially, whether it is possible that God gave the Virgin Mary a child without having intercourse.

According to the Talmud, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai criticized the Roman government and was forced to go into hiding with his son for thirteen years.

* Rabbi Yishmael omer Rabbi Yishmael says: Through thirteen rules is the Torah elucidated.

When Rabbi Isaac Adler died on December 23, 1822, thirteen year old Samuel, his four young siblings, and their mother were left in straitened circumstances.

At the age of six Steinschneider was sent to the public school, which was unheard-of at that time for a Jewish child ; and at the age of thirteen he became the pupil of Rabbi Nahum Trebitsch, whom he followed to Mikulov, Moravia in 1832.