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

The Talmud cites Rav Sheshet who said that by neglecting the precept, one transgresses eight positive commandments.

That said, Rav Kook's willingness to engage in joint-projects ( for instance, his participation in the Chief Rabbinate ) with the secular Zionist leadership must be seen as differentiating him from many of his traditionalist peers.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein once said that the decisions of the Aruch HaShulchan — who was a full-time Rav — take precedence over many poskim who were not active rabbanim.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

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.

As the scene of his activity, Rav first chose Nehardea, where the exilarch appointed him agoranomos, or market-master, and Rabbi Shela made him lecturer ( amora ) of his college ( Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra v. 15a ; Yoma, 20b ).

Rav Zeira spoke to him, but he did not answer.

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:

When Rav Kook died in 1935, Risikoff — with " a presentiment of the catastrophe " yet to come -- published a eulogy in which he put forth his belief that Kook might have been taken early to spare him from even worse times to come.

Also, one could see from the published letters, that the " Chareidi " leadership was firm in its support of Rav Kook, and in fact had an apparent fond relationship with him.

The vast majority of the " Chareidi " leaders publicized handwritten letters in support of Rav Kook, when a few individuals were publicly disrespectful towards him.

Rav Kook embraced the support, but made clear that any insults were accepted by him without anger, for he viewed himself " as a servant of G-d ," without interest in his personal honor.

At his Bar Mitzvah celebration he delivered a discourse concerning the complicated laws of Kiddush Hachodesh, to which the people of the town granted him the title " Rav ".

Rav Huna adds one more sale by concluding that after the Medanites sold him to the Egyptians, a fifth sale occurred when the Egyptians sold him to Potiphar.

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch cites a story from the Talmud ( Shabbat 156b ) about Rav Nachman bar Yitzchok who might have become a thief had his mother not saved him from this fate by insisting that he cover his head, which instilled in him the fear of God.

He was a pupil of Johanan ( d. 279 ); in a question regarding the time of the new moon, which he sent to Rav Ammi, he introduces a sentence taught to him by Johanan with the words: " Know that R. Johanan has taught us thus all his life long " ( R. H. 20a ).

Through the mediation of his son-in-law, the rabbi dr Wolf ( Zeev ) Gottlieb from Glasgow, his responsa and other religious law works of him were edited and printed in Rav Kook Publishing House in Jerusalem ( Shaagat Arié, Eitan Arie, 1912 ; Pirkei Shoshana, 1920 ).

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.

After his death in 1941, his son Rav Moshe succeeded him.

In 1971 Rav Amital asked Rav Aharon Lichtenstein to join him as Rosh Yeshiva.

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 ).

Once an adam gadol, a very learned man, discussed the Halachic implications of the Rebbe's zmanim with the late Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach.

" Furthermore, Rav Strikovsky granted ordination to Haviva Ner-David ( who is American ) in 2006, although she has not been able to find a job as a rabbi.

Although he stayed at the yeshiva for only a year and a half, the Netziv has been quoted as saying that if the Volozhin Yeshiva had been founded just to educate Rav Kook, it would have been worthwhile.

A Chasid has a Rebbe as a spiritual guide and to go and sometimes an additional Rav for a ruling on an issue of Halachah, Jewish law.

Material assigned to this genus has also been reported from Rav W-1 in Saskatchewan, Canada.

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.

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky has also suggested that there may be room to be lenient in this situation.

Since January 2008, he has co-presented the programme Crimewatch with Kirsty Young and Rav Wilding, specializing in the solved cases.

As described in the Idra Rabba, before the Idra disjourned, three of the students died: Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov, Rabbi Chezkiyah bar Rav, and Rabbi Yisa.

Rav Ashlag's closest student Rav Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein later finished the work by adding this three volumes called Tikkunei HaZohar " Maalot Hasulam ".

The three sons of the late Bostoner Rebbe, Rav Levi Yitzchok Horowitz zt ” l, succeeding their venerated father in leading the Bostoner chassidus.

On one occasion he ordered some Samaritan wine, but subsequently learning that there were no longer any strict observers of the dietary laws among the Samaritans, with the assistance of his colleagues, Ḥiyya b. Abba, Rav Ammi, and Rav Assi, he investigated the report, and, ascertaining it to be well founded, did not hesitate to declare the Samaritans, for all ritualistic purposes, Gentiles ( Yer.

Since there is no purpose for the homosexual drive, Rav Moshe contends, it must not be a true drive.

Also there is now a musical project that presents Rav Kook's poetry with musical accompaniment.

In analyzing, there are five different Hebrew names used to describe five different groups of people involved in the transaction of selling Joseph, according to Rabbi Judah and Rav Huna.

Prominent there were Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor ( the " Kovner Rav "; officiated 1864-96 ); Abraham Mapu, one of the first modern Hebrew writers ; and Israel Isidor Elyashev, the " Ba ' al Makhshoves ", the first Yiddish literary critic.

Chazon Ish appears there as " Rav Yeshayahu Kossover.

* For Rav Sadya, there is also a concept of a higher Kavod.

Then he returned to Bodniv, where he accepted the position of Rav and av beit din of the Jewish community there.