A classic articulation of the Golden Rule came from the first century Rabbi Hillel the Elder.

According to the classic midrash in Avot D ' Rabbi Nathan ( 4: 5 ):

Rabbi Shneur Zalman is well known for the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, his version of the classic Shulkhan Arukh, an authoritative code of Jewish law and custom commissioned by Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch and composed at the age of twenty.

Breslovers do not restrict themselves to Rabbi Nachman's commentaries on the Torah, but also study many of the classic texts, including the Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, and many others.

A classic articulation of the Golden Rule ( see above ) came from the first century Rabbi Hillel the Elder.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson explains these 49 levels in his classic book, The Spiritual Guide to Counting the Omer.

* Or li-Yesharim ( a commentary on the classic work Sefer ha-Yashar, attributed to the Tosafist Rabbi Yaakov ben Meir, Rabbeinu Tam );

* Kitzur Sefer Chareidim-an abridgement of the classic Sefer Chareidim by Rabbi Elazar Ezkari.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, who was also a physicist, was inclined toward the belief in extraterrestrial life, citing various classic Jewish authorities.

It was Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman (~ 1720-1797 ), known as the Vilna Gaon (" Genius Vilna "), and those who followed his classic stringent Talmudic and Halakhic scholasticism, who put up the fiercest resistance to the Hasidim (" Righteous ").

In Devarim Areivim ( another Hasidic classic ), the author, Rabbi Dov Ehrmann, wrote: " In the first edition of the sefer, there are in many places small stars which allude to some secret meaning ".

* Cosmetic Surgery -- A review of four classic Teshuvot ( Rabbi Waldenberg is # 2 )

Regarding the access that his work provides, Rabbi Steinsaltz says:

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.

* The work of the Rosh, Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel ( 1250 ?/ 1259 ?– 1328 ), an abstract of the Talmud, concisely stating the final halakhic decision and quoting later authorities, notably Alfasi, Maimonides, and the Tosafists.

This work superseded Rabbi Alfasi's and has been printed with almost every subsequent edition of the Talmud.

Yalkut Yosef, by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, is a voluminous, widely cited and contemporary work of Halakha, based on the rulings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Based on the same core material as Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, it followed a second route of commentary and editing, and eventually emerged as a distinct work.

The Sifra work follows the tradition of Rabbi Akiva with additions from the School of Rabbi Ishmael.

A third such work was that of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel ( d. 1327 ).

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

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.

This work resembles the Hilchot of the Rif ( Rabbi Isaac Alfasi )-also an adumbration-but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and Alfasi himself.

Maaseh Hoshev is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Sefer Hamispar ( The Book of Number ), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( 1090 – 1167 ).

Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848, making sure that necessary relief work on Shabbat for Jews was done by Jews ( despite the ordinary prohibition against doing work on Shabbat ), and ordering Jews whose lives were in danger to eat rather than fast on the fast day of Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is accredited with having composed the Kabalistic work The Zohar ( literally " The Shining "-hence the custom of lighting fire to commemorate him ).

; 1013 – 1073: Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi ( from Morocco, later Spain ) writes the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

The teachings of the maggid are recorded in his published work titled Maggid Meisharim, although Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai notes that only about one fiftieth of the manuscript was ever published, ( see Works ).

Isserles ' student, Rabbi Yehoshua Falk HaKohen published Sefer Me ' irath Enayim ( on Choshen Mishpat, abbreviated as Sema ) several decades after the main work.

The Mishna Berura, the main work of halakha by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ( the " Chafetz Chaim ") is a collation of the opinions of later authorities on the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch.

Aruch HaShulchan, by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, is a more analytical work attempting the same task from a different angle, and covering all sections of the Shulchan Aruch.

These include Rabbi Meir Margolius, chief rabbi of Lemberg and later Ostroha, and author of Meir Netivim ( a work of halachic responsa ) and other works ; Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hakohen, rabbi of Polnoy ; Rabbi Dovid Halperin, rabbi of Ostroha ; Rabbi Israel of Satinov, author of Tiferet Yisrael ; Rabbi Yoseph Heilperin of Slosowitz ; and Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezrich ( AKA the Maggid of Mezritch ) to whose great authority as a Talmudist it was chiefly due that Besht ’ s doctrines ( though in an essentially altered form ) were introduced into learned circles.

Modern Kabbalah developed by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, in his writings about the future generation, focuses on how society could achieve an altruistic social framework.

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.

In 1803, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi compiled an authoritative siddur from the sixty siddurim that he checked for compliance with Hebrew grammar, Jewish law, and Kabbalah: this is what is known today as the " Nusach Ari ", and is used by Lubavitch Hasidim.

Stiles struck up a close friendship with Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal during Carigal's six month residence in Newport in 1773, the two meeting 28 times ( according to Stiles ' records ) to discuss a wide variety of topics, ranging from Kabbalah to the politics of the Holy Land.

Rabbi Schneerson is known for his scholarship both in the Talmud and hidden parts of the Torah ( both Kabbalah and Chasidus ).

He would only allude in the most general ways to other great mystics, in Hebrew mekubalim, such as the Baal Shem Tov ( founder of Hasidism ), the great mystic known as the Ari who lived in the late Middle Ages, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, the Baal HaTanya Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters as well as to the great works of Kabbalah such as the Zohar.

Rabbi Leone di Modena wrote that if we were to accept the Kabbalah, then the Christian trinity would indeed be compatible with Judaism, as the Trinity closely resembles the Kabbalistic doctrine of the Sefirot.

He became an adept in Isaac Luria's system of Kabbalah, and in 1764 he became a disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch.

As a Talmudist, Rabbi Shneur Zalman endeavored to place Kabbalah and Hasidism on a rational basis.

Dov Ber later became an admirer of Rabbi Isaac Luria's system of Kabbalah, which was becoming popular at that time and was aware of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, whose writings, then only in manuscript, were well known among the Polish mystics of the period.

On the other hand, he was fascinated by mysticism and the Kabbalah, as influenced by Rabbi Isaac Luria.

In the Renaissance Period, in the 16th-century Land of Israel, the book Ets Khayim conveys the Kabbalah of Ha-Ari ( Rabbi Isaac Luria ) who arranges the traditional items on the seder plate for Passover into two triangles, where they explicitly correspond to Jewish mystical concepts.

Moore and Kutcher married on September 24, 2005, in a private ceremony conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center.

In October 2010, Kutcher and Moore met with co-director of the Kabbalah Center Rabbi Yehuda Berg in Israel.

Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus is the two-volume Likutei Moharan ( Collected of Our Teacher and Rabbi, Nachman ), a collection of 411 lessons displaying in-depth familiarity and understanding of the many overt and esoteric concepts embedded in Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar and Kabbalah.

He was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva, and is attributed with the authorship of the Zohar, the chief work of Kabbalah.

Most of the changes made by the Hasidim were the product of the Hasidic approach to Kabbalah, particularly as expressed by Rabbi Isaac Luria ( 1534 – 1572 ), known as " the ARI " and his disciples, particularly Rabbi Chaim Vital ( 1543 – 1620 ).

In his first treatises, Get ha-Shemot and Maftei ’ ach ha-Re ' ayon, Abulafia describes a linguistic type of Kabbalah similar to the early writings of Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla.

The most important among them are the anonymous Sefer ha-Tzeruf ( translated into Latin for Pico ), Sefer Ner Elohim, and Sefer Shaarei Tzedek by Rabbi Nathan ben Saadiah Harar, who influenced the Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac of Acre.