In the 1930s Ashlag, now in his fifties, gathered around him a group of disciples, including Rav Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein-His closest student and studied Kabbalah every night, often from shortly after midnight until dawn.

Simai, Ashi's father, was a rich and learned man, a student of the college of Naresh near Sura, which was directed by Rav Papa, Raba's disciple.

* Rabbi Dr. Shalom Carmy-professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Yeshiva University ; a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian and student of The Rav

The nine are: Rabbi Eliezer his son, Rabbi Abba, Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov, Rabbi Yitzchak, Rabbi Chezkiyah bar Rav, Rabbi Chiyya, Rabbi Yossi and Rabbi Yisa.

Roshei Yeshiva following Rav Kook's passing in 1935 included Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlap, Rav Shlomo Ra ' anan, and Rav Kook's son, Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Rav Avraham Shapiro and Rav Yaakov Shapiro.

They all died in his lifetime: Esther died during childhood ; Rachel died 6 months after she married her first cousin, Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum ( II ), the rabbi of Sighet ; and Roysele ( the only of his children to survive the holocaust ), who married Lipa Teitelbaum, the Semihaya Rav, and died in 1953 in the US.

Other religious Zionist institutions are Yeshivat Or Etzion ( founded by Rav Haim Druckman, a foremost disciple of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook ), Yeshivat HaKotel, Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maale Adumim, Yeshivat Har Hamor, Ein HaNatziv Women's Seminary and the Yaacov Herzog Institute for Jewish Studies.

The Kabbalah Centre was founded in the United States in 1965 as The National Research Institute of Kabbalah by Philip Berg ( born Feivel Gruberger ) and Rav Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein.

Some commentaries go so far as to say that none of the < i > Neviyim </ i >, Prophets of the Bible, came to the level of Rav Yehuda HeChasid.

Rabbi Judah the Pious ( Rav Yehuda Ha-Hassid ) of Regensburg was the foremost leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz.

* Hespedim ( eulogies ) given for Rav Yehuda Amital zt " l

* By Faith Alone, The Story of Rav Yehuda Amital, by Elyashiv Reichner

* Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, Rav of Koziegłowy

His father, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Halberstam, the Rav of Rudnik, instilled in the young Yekusiel Yehudah a love of Hasidut and Torah scholarship, sharing with him stories of how the Divrei Chaim learned, prayed and conducted his tish ( Shabbat and Jewish holiday celebratory table ).

******** Rabbi M. Rabinowicz, Biala-Prshiskhe Rav of Har Nof, son of Rabbi Yerachmiel Tzvi

From his associations in the house of his uncle, and later as his uncle's disciple and as a member of the academy at Sepphoris, Rav acquired such an extraordinary knowledge of traditional lore as to make him its foremost exponent in his native land.

The Babylonian Talmud was compiled from discussions in the houses of study by the scholars Ravina I, Ravina II, and Rav Ashi by 500 CE, although it continued to be edited later.

In later years it was Rav Ettlinger's students Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer of Berlin who deepened the awareness and strength of Orthodox Jewry.

Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

Ashi's teacher was Rav Kahana, a member of the same college, who later became president of the academy at Pumbedita.

The later Sephardic rite has been revised to bring it into closer conformity with the rulings of the halachic codes, which themselves often reflect the opinions of the Geonim, and is therefore of a more purely Babylonian character: thus, paradoxically, it has moved away from the current wording of the Seder Rav Amram and towards what was presumably its original wording.

***** Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Rosenbaum ( Jan. 18 1908-July 20 2000 ) of Zutshka ( near Chernivtsi ) and later Bnei Brak, son of Rabbi Issamar of Nadvorna and son-in-law of Rabbi Noson Dovid Hollander ( d. 1838 ), Amasna Rav

A few weeks later he came across a copy of Parparaot LeChochmah by the Tcheriner Rav, Rabbi Nachman Goldstein, which is a scholarly commentary on Likutey Moharan.

His numerous disciples — some of whom were very influential and who, for the most part, were also disciples of Samuel — amplified and, in their capacity as instructors and by their discussions, continued the work of Rav.

The work begun by Rav Ashi was completed by Ravina, who is traditionally regarded as the final Amoraic expounder.

Rav Ashi actually revised the work twice — a fact that is mentioned in the Talmud.

Even whether this editorial work was written down, and thus, whether the putting of the Babylonian Talmud into writing took place under Rav Ashi or not, cannot be answered from any statement in the Talmud.

The work begun by Rav Ashi was continued in the two succeeding generations and completed by Ravina II, another president of the college at Sura, who died in 499.

His primary work was Chidushei Rav Chaim HaLevi, a volume of insights on the Mishneh Torah which often would suggest novel understandings of the Talmud as well.

Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter ( 1847 – 1905 ), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes, was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the av beis din ( head of the rabbinical court ) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland ( known in Yiddish as the town of Ger ), and succeeded the Rebbe, Reb Heynekh of Alexander, as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim.

Yalkut Yosef ( ילקוט יוסף ; Hebrew: " Collation of works of Ovadia Yosef ") is an authoritative, contemporary work of Halakha, providing a detailed explanation of the Shulchan Aruch as based on the halachic rulings of the former Rishon LeTzion Rav Ovadia Yosef.

The Aleinu prayer first appeared in the manuscript of the Rosh Hashana liturgy by Rav.

The method of treatment of the traditional material to which the Talmud owes its origin was established in Babylonia by Rav.

" Rav also exercised a great influence for good upon the moral and religious conditions of his native land, not only indirectly through his disciples, but directly by reason of the strictness with which he repressed abuses in matters of marriage and divorce, and denounced ignorance and negligence in matters of ritual observance.

As a haggadist, Rav is surpassed by none of the Babylonian Amoraim.

Rav loved the Book of Ecclesiasticus ( Sirach ), and warned his disciple Hamnuna against unjustifiable asceticism by quoting advice contained therein — that, considering the transitoriness of human life ( Eruvin 54a ), one should not despise the good things of this world.

Rav died at an advanced age, deeply mourned by numerous disciples and the entire Babylonian Jewry, which he had raised from comparative insignificance to the leading position in Judaism ( Shabbat 110a, Mo ' ed Katan 24a ).

Rav Zeira said, " You were created by the magicians ; return to your dust.

It was co-authored by Rav Hershel Schachter, Rav Mordechai Willig, Rav Michael Rosensweig, and Rav Mayer Twersky.

The Talmud records a tradition that unattributed statements of the law represent the views of Rabbi Meir ( Sanhedrin 86a ), which supports the theory ( recorded by Rav Sherira Gaon in his famous Iggeret ) that he was the author of an earlier collection.

He among others fully institutionlized the teaching of Mishnah and Talmud to girls, from an autobiography on him by Rabbi Mayor Twersky called " A Glimpse of the Rav " in R. Menachem Genack ed., Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Man of Halacha, Man of Faith, page 113:

** The Ahavat Eitan by Rav Avrohom Abba Krenitz ( the great grandfather of Rav Malkiel Kotler )

* The encyclopedic editions put out by Mishnat Rav Aharon ( Beis Medrosho Govoah, Lakewood ) on Sheviit, Challah, and Yadayim.

The earliest existing codification of the prayerbook was drawn up by Rav Amram Gaon of Sura, Babylon, about 850 CE.

Traditionally, this Talmud was thought to have been redacted in about the year 350 CE by Rav Muna and Rav Yossi in the Land of Israel.

Midrash haNe ` elam is located within the body of the Zohar ( parashat Vayera, Chayei Sarah, Toldot ) and the Zohar Chadash ( pp. 2b-30b ; 46b-47b ( in the Zohar Chadash edition by Rav Reuven Margoliot ), and in parashat Balak, Ki Teitze, and the entire Zohar Chadash on Shir haShirim, Ruth, and Eikah.