Other well-known rabbis who are reincarnationists include Rabbi Yonassan Gershom, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Talmud scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi DovBer Pinson, Rabbi David M. Wexelman, Rabbi Zalman Schachter, and many others.

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel ( Steinsaltz ) ( 2010 )

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ( Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ ) or Adin Even Yisrael ( Hebrew: עדין אבן ישראל ) ( born 1937 ) is a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a " once-in-a-millennium scholar ".

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

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

His son, Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel, is the Director of Educational Programs at the Steinsaltz Center in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Rabbi Steinsaltz accepted the position as Nasi ( President ) of the 2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.

* Steinsaltz. org – The website of The Aleph Society and Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

* Rabbi Steinsaltz talks about the Torah to BBC ( sound file )

* Some articles written by Rabbi Adin Even-Yisrael Steinsaltz

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:

* Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Adin Steinsaltz

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz the Nasi of the Sanhedrin said < cite > I'd be happy if in another few years these chairs are filled by scholars who are greater than us and we can say: ` I kept the chairs warm for you.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz translates " Yeshu " as " Jesus " in his translation of the Talmud.

Much more recently, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has taken the title nasi, in an attempt to re-establish the Sanhedrin in its judicial capacity as the Supreme Court of Judaism.

Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that " By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought " and asserted in his book Basic Judaism ( 1947 ) that " Judaism has never arrived at a creed.

It has been said that Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg ( 1859 – 1935 ) originated the idea that the narrative dates from the time of the Maharal.

As far as we know, the Vilna Gaon is the only Rabbi who has actually claimed that he tried to create a Golem ; all such stories about other rabbis were told after their time.

The Mishnah has many sayings about the World to Come, for example, " Rabbi Yaakov said: This world is like a lobby before the World to Come ; prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall.

Rabbi Yosef then found reason to doubt that the new husband was ever the father, finding that because the ex-husband occasionally delivered alimony personally, an ancient presumption ( one of many ) that any time a husband and wife are alone together the law presumes intercourse has taken place governed the case.

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

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

It has earned the praise of Pope Benedict XVI and the nickname " The Pope's Favorite Rabbi ".

He also has collaborated with other scholars to produce comparisons of Judaism and Christianity, as in The Bible and Us: A Priest and A Rabbi Read Scripture Together ( New York 1990 ; translated into Spanish and Portuguese ).

Today ’ s leading Conservative posek in Israel, Rabbi David Golinkin, has written profusely on Louis Ginzberg.

Although Rabbi Lipschutz has faced some controversy in certain Hasidic circles, he was greatly respected by such sages as Rabbi Akiva Eiger, whom he frequently cites, and is widely accepted in the Yeshiva world.

* The commentary by Rabbi Pinhas Kehati, which is written in Modern Israeli Hebrew and based on classical and contemporary works, has become popular in the late Twentieth Century.

No female rabbi has served in a British Masorti synagogue, but in 2010 the Assembly of Masorti Synagogues appointed Rabbi Daniella Kolodny as its Community Development Coordinator.

Rabbi Peretz ben Elijah ruled, " The cry of the daughters of our people has been heard concerning the sons of Israel who raise their hands to strike their wives.

22b, 23a, 49b ), the book of Jewish mysticism and collection of writings on the Torah written by first century tannaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ( Rashbi ), tells of a celestial manifestation, which causes the crowing of the roosters ; known also in the Talmud, is " blessed be He who has given the cock intelligence ,"( Ber.

For example, Rabbi David Bar-Hayim of the Makhon Shilo institute has issued a siddur reflecting Eretz Yisrael practice as found in the Jerusalem Talmud and other sources.

The Tosefta has been translated into English by Rabbi Jacob Neusner and his students in the commentary cited above, also published separately as The Tosefta: translated from the Hebrew ( 6 vols, 1977-86 )

If, as has been suggested, the reference in the Talmud to " a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err " ( see above ) refers to Halley's Comet, it may be a reference to the 66 CE appearance, because this passage is attributed to the Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananiah.

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

Consequently, within the world of Haredi Judaism, the English word and title of " Rabbi " for anyone is often scorned and derided, because in their view the once-lofty title of " Rabbi " has been debased in modern times.

" Rabbi Marc D. Angel writes that " There has been a general reluctance in Jewish tradition to speculate on the metaphysical aspects of creation ," and that " the general Jewish attitude throughout the ages has been that God created the world ex nihilo and further notes:

In it, Gans writes of an audience between the Maharal and Rudolph II: " Our lord the emperor … Rudolph … sent for and called upon our master Rabbi Low ben Bezalel and received him with a welcome and merry expression, and spoke to him face to face, as one would to a friend.

The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.

Although nearing ordination at the Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, he transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ), where he was ordained in 1934 and received the advanced Jewish legal degree of Hattarat Hora ’ ah under the great talmudic scholar Rabbi Professor Louis Ginzberg.

He received semikhah from Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines while on his honeymoon.

That same day he received a blessing by Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Morais was soon joined by Alexander Kohut and Bernard Drachman, both of whom had received semicha ( rabbinic ordination ) at Rabbi Frankel's Breslau seminary.

Most Jewish ministers of religion have the title Rabbi, which denotes that they have received rabbinical ordination ( semicha ).

He received his early education from his father Aaron, who was Klausrabbiner ( Rabbi of a small synagogue ) in Karlsruhe, continuing his studies under Abraham Bing at Würzburg, where he also attended the university.

Kaplan received semicha from some of Israel's foremost rabbinic authorities, including Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel.

During his youth, Rabbi Schneerson received mostly private Jewish education.

He received separate rabbinical ordinations from both the Rogatchover Gaon, Yosef Rosen, and from Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg ( also known as the Sridei Aish ).

In this effort he also received the help of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz who headed Brooklyn's largest and more established Yeshiva Torah Vodaas.

Capital punishment was prescribed for any Rabbi who received ordination and complete destruction of the town where the ordination occurred.

This approach received a boost in the 19th century from the physical culture campaign of Max Nordau, and in the early 20th century when the Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Abraham Isaac Kook, declared that the body serves the soul, and only a healthy body can ensure a healthy soul.

Rabbi Jose assumed that everyone else received their inheritance when Caleb did, or had already received it, so that the allotment of the land to the tribes was finished at this time.

from Yeshiva University, and received his rabbinic ordination from its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, studying under Rabbis Aharon Lichtenstein and Joseph Soloveitchik.

Business ethics received special emphasis in the teaching of Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter ( 19th century ), founder of the Musar movement in Eastern Europe.

( Roman law prescribed capital punishment for any Rabbi who received ordination and complete destruction of the town where the ordination occurred ).

He then received his semikhah by telegraph from Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski of Wilna, an unusual arrangement-especially in the early 20th century.

Typical usage is to state that a particular Rabbi's Rav Muvhak is Rabbi Aleph but he also studied / received Semikhah from Rabbi Gimmel.

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