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 devoted much attention to mystical and transcendental speculations which the rabbis connect with the Biblical account of creation ( Genesis 1, Ma ' aseh Bereshit ), the vision of the mysterious chariot of God ( Ezekiel 1, Ma ' aseh Merkabah ), and the Divine Name.

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.

In the Babylonian schools, Rav was rightly referred to as " our great master.

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

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

According to a tradition preserved in the academies, Rav Ashi was born in the same year that Rava, the great teacher of Mahuza, died, and he was the first teacher of any importance in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Raba's death.

While still young, Rav Ashi became the head of the Sura Academy, his great learning being acknowledged by the older teachers.

Rav Chatzkel Abramsky: " The honored man, beloved of Hashem and his nation, the rabbi, the gaon, great and well-known, with breadth of knowledge, the glory of the generation, etc., etc., our master Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, shlita, Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel and the head of the Beis Din in the holy city of Jerusalem "

Rav Yitzchak Hutner: " The glorious honor of our master, our teacher and rabbi, the great gaon, the crown and sanctity of Israel, Maran master Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, shlita!

Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer and Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein: " Our honored friend, the great gaon and glory of the generation, our master and teacher, Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen, shlita "

" Hence he was a contemporary of Rav Ashi, the great master of Sura, who died in 427.

Within his doctoral research on the subject tekhelet, Rav Herzog placed great hopes on demonstrating that the Murex trunculus was the genuine snail khillazon.

Like the Tcheriner Rav, the young Abraham was a child prodigy who applied himself to his Torah studies with great diligence.

His Prayer-Book ( Siddur Rab Amram or Seder Rav Amram ), which took the form of a long responsum to the Jews of Spain, is still extant and was an important influence on most of the current rites in use among the Jews.

On one occasion, when his senior colleagues, Ḥiyya b. Abba, Rav Ammi, and Assi, had punished a certain woman, and feared the wrath of the proconsul, Abbahu was deputed to intercede for them.

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.

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.

Sura maintained the prominence conferred on it by Rav Ashi for several centuries, and only during the last two centuries of the Gaonic period did Pumbedita again become its rival.

Rav Ashi's son Tabyomi, always spoken of as " Mar ( Master ), the son of Rab Ashi ," was a recognized scholar, but it was not until 455, 28 years after his father's death, that he was invested with the position that his father had so successfully filled for more than half a century.

* Jewish Encyclopedia article for Rav Ashi, by Marcus Jastrow and Wilhelm Bacher.

* Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik-Known as " The Rav ", he was effectively the spiritual and intellectual guide of Modern Orthodoxy in America for the mid-20th century.

* Revisionism and the Rav: The Struggle for the Soul of Modern Orthodoxy, Prof. Lawrence Kaplan

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.

The outbreak of the First World War caught Rav Kook in Europe, and he was forced to remain in London and Switzerland for the remainder of the war.

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.

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.

Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz: " The true gaon, the beauty and glory of the generation, the tzaddik, his holiness, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak, may his light shine, may he live for length of good days and years amen, the righteous cohen, head of the beis din in Jerusalem, the holy city, may it soon be built and established "

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.

:( Lawrence Kaplan, Revisionism and the Rav: The Struggle for the Soul of Modern Orthodoxy Judaism, Summer, 1999 )

* Lawrence Kaplan Revisionism and the Rav: The Struggle for the Soul of Modern Orthodoxy Judaism, Summer, 1999

In fact, Rav Henoch believed that one who enters this field for any other reason would be better off going into the workforce.

* Kaplan, Lawrence Revisionism and the Rav: The Struggle for the Soul of Modern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Summer, 1999

) According to some Talmudic authorities, women counted in the minyan for offering the Korban Pesach ( e. g. Rav, Rav Kahana, Pesachim 79b ).