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.

" 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.

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

Rav Ashi not only elevated Sura until it became the intellectual center of the Babylonian Jews, but contributed to its material grandeur also.

In 1904, Rav Kook moved to Ottoman Palestine to assume the rabbinical post in Jaffa, which also included responsibility for the new mostly secular Zionist agricultural settlements nearby.

He is also known as the Baal HaTanya, " Master of the Tanya ", and by a variety of other names including Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch, Baruchovitch being the Russian patronymic from his father Baruch, by the acronym RaZaSh, " Rabbi Za-Sh -", by the title Baal HaTanya ve-haShulchan Aruch, " Master of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch, as the Alter Rebbe (" Old Rebbe " in Yiddish ), Admor HaZaken (" Old Rebbe " in Hebrew ), Rabbeinu HaZokein, Rabbeinu HaGodol, " our great rabbi ", the GRaZ, and Rav.

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

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

A proof that the Mordvins have long been settled in the vicinity of the Volga is also found in the fact that they still call the river Rav, reflecting the Rha of Ptolemy.

The congregation's acting Rav, Joe Pessah, was also among those who were arrested by the Egyptian government.

According to Rav Sherira Gaon, Sura ( Hebrew: סורא ) was identical to the town of Mata Mehasia ( מתא מחסיא ), which is also mentioned in the Talmud, however, Matha-Mehasia is cited in the Talmud, many times, either as a nearby town or a suburb of Sura, and the Talmudist academy in Matha-Mehasia was sometimes moved or served as an additional branch to the Talmudist academy of Sura.

Nissim ben Jacob ( Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב, also known as Rav Nissim Gaon or in Hebrew: רבנו נסים, lit.

As the former was in Bavel ( Babylonia ) and the latter was in Sferad (" Spain "), Rav Nissim is also credited with having maintained through his letters the lines of Rabbinic discourse between these easternmost and westernmost Jewish communities.

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.

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

Joseph Jacobs, in the Jewish Encyclopedia article mentioned, notes that the transition from the triennial to the annual reading of the Law and the transference of the beginning of the cycle to the month of Tishri are attributed by Sándor Büchler to the influence of Abba Arika, also known as " Rab ," or " Rav ," ( 175 – 247 CE ), a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, and who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud:

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

He also was a colleague of Rav Chisda, and was a pupil under Rabbi Judah and Ulla ( Yev.

: The mold for this figure is also used for Rav in the Transformers: Dark of the Moon toy line.

During this time, Scheinberg also became the Rav of Congregation Bakash Shalom Anshei Ostrov on the Lower East Side, where he gave Torah lectures to working men.

She was also a descendant of the Divrei Chaim: her grandfather, Rabbi Sholom Eliezer Halberstam, was one of the seven sons of the Sanzer Rav.

The Sheiltot, also known as Sheiltot d ’ Rav Achai or Sheiltos, is a collection of homilies ( at once learned and popular ) on Jewish law and ethics.

Nachman Goldstein of Tcherin ( died 1894 ), also known as the Tcheriner Rav ( rabbi of Tcherin, a town in eastern Ukraine ), was a leading disciple of Nathan of Breslov ( known as " Reb Noson "), who in turn was the chief disciple of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty.

He was considered, however, the greatest rabbi in the Land of Israel, and was even esteemed in the other center of Torah Jewry, Babylonia — so much so that after the deaths of Rav and Shmuel in Babylonia, Rabbi Yochanan was considered by Babylonian Jews as the greatest rabbi of the generation.

Rav was a descendant of a distinguished Babylonian family which claimed to trace its origin to Shimei, brother of King David ( Sanhedrin 5a ; Ketubot 62b ).

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

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 ).

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.

This is one reason that Haredim will often prefer using Hebrew names for rabbinic titles based on older traditions, such as: Rav ( denoting " rabbi "), HaRav (" the rabbi "), Moreinu HaRav (" our teacher the rabbi "), Moreinu (" our teacher "), Moreinu VeRabeinu HaRav (" our teacher and our rabbi / master the rabbi "), Moreinu VeRabeinu (" our teacher and our rabbi / master "), Rosh yeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), Rosh HaYeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), " Mashgiach " ( for Mashgiach ruchani ) (" spiritual supervsor / guide "), Mora DeAsra (" teacher / decisor " the / this place "), HaGaon (" the genius "), Rebbe (" rabbi "), HaTzadik (" the righteous / saintly "), " ADMOR " (" Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabeinu ") (" our master, our teacher and our rabbi / master ") or often just plain Reb which is a shortened form of rebbe that can be used by, or applied to, any married Jewish male as the situation applies.

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.

" Indeed, Rav Ashi was the man destined to undertake a task similar to that which fell to the lot of Judah I.

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.

Rav Kook's writings and philosophy eventually gave birth to the Hardal Religious Zionist movement which is today led by rabbis who studied under Rav Kook's son at Mercaz HaRav.

The event, which was attended by the Pontiff, Rav Elio Toaff, Imam Abdulawahab Hussein Gomaa, and 7, 000 invited guests, was telecast on RAI, on PBS, and throughout the world, and released on DVD by WQED Multimedia Pittsburgh.

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 ".

Bernard Rosensweig ( former President of the RCA ) writes " The RCA remained loyal to the guidelines which the Rav had set down interfaith dialogue and distinguished between theological discussions and ethical-secular concerns, which have universal validity.

Every program involving either Catholic or Protestant churches in which we participated was carefully scrutinized .... Every topic which had possible theological nuances or implications was vetoed, and only when the Rav pronounced it to be satisfactory did we proceed to the dialogue.

The term " dayyane di baba " (" judges of the gate "), which was applied in the post-Talmudic time to the members of the court of the exilarch, is derived from the phrase just quoted Harkavy, l. c .. Two details of Nahman ben Jacob's life cast light on his position at the court of the exilarch: he received the two scholars Rav Chisda and Rabba b. Huna, who had come to pay their respects to the exilarch ( Sukkah 10b ); and when the exilarch was building a new house he asked Nahman to take charge of the placing of the mezuzah according to the Law 33a.

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.

There is a dispute, however, to which Rav Nachman, the Talmud was referring: According to some commentators, this was Rav Nachman bar Yaakov ( circa 280 CE ), while others maintain this was Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak ( 360 CE ).

As a sign of great respect, some great rabbis are simply called " The Rav ".

As a Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav ( variantly spelled The Rov, yet pronounced The Ruv, similar to his illustrious uncle Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik who was called " The Rov "), as he came to be known, ordained close to 2, 000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century.

In modern times most students are educated by a number of different rabbis so the term Rav Muvhak is now anachronistic.

As he rose to become an important leader of Modern Orthodox Jewry, he ordained close to 2, 000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century thereby strengthening his status as " The Rav " -- as he was ' the rabbis's rabbi '.