The Mishnah Berurah of Rabbi Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen, ( the " Chofetz Chaim ", Poland, 1838 – 1933 ) is a commentary on the " Orach Chayim " section of the Shulchan Aruch, discussing the application of each Halakha in light of all subsequent Acharonic decisions.

At this time, following attempts by the Lithuanian government to draft yeshiva students into the army, the Lithuanian Knesses Yisroel relocated to Hebron, after consultations between Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Yechezkel Sarna and Moshe Mordechai Epstein.

* Rabbi Avrohom Mordechai Alter, Third Gerrer Rebbe, driving force behind Agudas Yisroel in Poland

* Rabbi Yisroel Pinchos Bodner, author on various aspects of halakha.

* Satmar Shtibel of Woodridge was founded in 2002 by Rabbi Yisroel Aron Goldenberg, a spinoff from Satmar.

Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.

The appellation “ Baal Shem ” was not unique to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ; however, it is Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer who is most closely identified as a “ Baal Shem ”, as he was the founder of the spiritual movement of Hasidic Judaism.

There have been rabbinical attempts to renew Semicha and re-establish a Sanhedrin by Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538, Rabbi Yisroel Shklover in 1830, Rabbi Aharon Mendel haCohen in 1901, Rabbi Zvi Kovsker in 1940 and Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon in 1949.

Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism is regarded by Hasidim, as the first Hasidic rebbe.

* Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, Maryland

Rabbi Yisroel Noach ( 1815 – 1883 ) of Nizhyn, although officially a Rebbe, had only a small following.

He was compelled to assume this position by his father-in-law, Rabbi Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkas ( son of Rabbi Mordechai of Chernobyl and son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe ) against his father ’ s wishes.

He was a prominent and the youngest disciple of Rabbi Dovber of Mezeritch, the " Great Maggid ", who was in turn the successor of the founder of Hasidism, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer known as the Baal Shem Tov.

It should be noted that Rabbi Yisroel Hopsztajn of Kozienice, another Hasidic leader, also considered Napoleon a menace to the Jewish people.

On 13 Elul 5657 ( 1897 ) at the age of seventeen he married a distant cousin, Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneersohn, daughter of Rabbi Avraham Schneerson of Chişinău, son of Rabbi Yisroel Noach of Nizhyn, son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.

The movement's founding is attributed to Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter ( 1810 – 1883 ), although the roots of the movements drew on ideas previously expressed in classical Musar literature.

Yisrael Lipkin Salanter, a promising young rabbi with exceptional knowledge of Jewish law living in Salantai, Lithuania, was initially inspired to dedicate his life to the cause of spreading Musar by his teacher Rabbi Yosef Zundel Salant ( 1786 – 1866 ).

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

This town is known for two famed rabbis: Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter and his teacher Rabbi Zundel Salant, who spent most of his life in Salantai.

Rabbi Lipkin was born in Zagare, Lithuania on November 3, 1810, the son of Rabbi Zev Wolf, the rabbi of that town and later Av Beth Din of Goldingen and Telz, and his wife Leah.

After his 1823 marriage to Esther Fega Eisenstein ( died August 1871, Vilnius ), Rabbi Lipkin settled in Salant, where he continued his studies under Rabbi Hirsch Broda and Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, himself a disciple of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin.

Rabbi Zundel exerted a deep influence on the development of Rabbi Lipkin's character ; he had stressed religious self-improvement ( musar ), which Rabbi Lipkin developed into a complete method and popularized.

Around 1842, Rabbi Lipkin was appointed rosh yeshiva of the Rabbi Meile yeshiva ( Tomchai Torah ) in Vilna.

Rabbi Lipkin was identified as a candidate to teach at or run the school.

Rabbi Lipkin lived for periods in Memel, Königsberg and Berlin.

Toward the end of his life Rabbi Lipkin was called to Paris to organize a community among the many Russian Jewish immigrants, and he remained there for two years.

Rabbi Lipkin is also known as one of the first people to try to translate the Talmud into another language.

However, he died before he could finish this immense project, Rabbi Lipkin died on Friday, February 2 ( 25 Shevat ), 1883, in Königsberg, then part of Germany.

Rabbi Lipkin was unique and his views were not always in the mainstream.

According to Rabbi Lipkin, adhering to the ritual aspects of Judaism without developing one's relationships with others and oneself was an unpardonable parody.

It was founded in 1877 by Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin Salanter when he was 67.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or " The Rambam " ( 1135-1204 CE ), lived at a time when both Christianity and Islam were developing active theologies.

On the other end of the philosophical spectrum is the view of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides.

Back at school, Rabbi Binder interprets Ozzie's question about the virgin birth as insubordinate, though Ozzie sincerely wishes to better understand God and his faith.

Yitzhak Sarfati, born in Germany, became the Chief Rabbi of Edirne and wrote a letter inviting European Jews to settle in the Ottoman Empire, in which he asked :: " Is it not better for you to live under Muslims than under Christians ?".

Moreh Nevukhim ; Arabic:, dalālatul ḥā ’ irīn, ) is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or " the Rambam ".

His grandfather and namesake was Rabbi Hyam ( or " Chaim ") Maccoby ( 1858 – 1916 ), better known as the " Kamenitzer Maggid ," a passionate religious Zionist and advocate of vegetarianism and animal welfare.

A dispute which he had with Rabbi Isaac of Shavel concerning the formula of a document relating to divorce ended when Isaac, who was much older and better known than Spektor, acknowledged the latter to be in the right.

The persecution and increasing apostasy led one of Yemen's most respected Jewish scholars, Jacob ben Nathanael, to write for counsel to Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides.

Located in Manhattan, the school seeks to follow the example of its namesake, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who sought to make the world a better place for members of the community, Jews, and everyone throughout the world.

Rabbi Shalom left a will specifying that anyone who can come to his grave and ask for his help, as long as they better themselves in at least one way in exchange.

Among these new Ashkenazi immigrants was Rabbi Yitzhak Sarfati, a German-born Jew of French descent ( Hebrew: צרפתי – Sarfati, meaning: " French "), who became the Chief Rabbi of Edirne and wrote a letter inviting the European Jewry to settle in the Ottoman Empire, in which he stated that: " Turkey is a land wherein nothing is lacking " and asking: " Is it not better for you to live under Muslims than under Christians?