" Reacting against the blurring of theological distinctions, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits wrote that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

The 20th-century Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler is frequently quoted as defining love from the Jewish point of view as " giving without expecting to take " ( from his Michtav me-Eliyahu, Vol.

Eliezer Zamenhof street in Tel Aviv: the street sign in Hebrew and Esperanto states he is the creator of the international language Esperanto.

In some Israeli cities, street signs identify Esperanto's creator and give his birth and death dates, but refer to him solely by his Jewish name Eliezer ( a variant of which, El ' azar, is the origin of Lazarus ).

" ( The captain's family name is " Ben Yehuda "— the name of the noted Zionist linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda who had a major share in transforming Hebrew, a purely liturgical language for many centuries, into a spoken language again.

This passage from Pirqei R. Eliezer, a writing which was composed in Israel after the Islamic conquest, is paralleled in an Arabic text of approximately the same period but gives some noticeably different information.

Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky ( born September 11, 1979 ) is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for the development of friendly artificial intelligence and the understanding of a possible future singularity.

This group gradually evolved into Kehilat Orach Eliezer, which means " Congregation of the Way of Eliezer " ( Eliezer was Louis Finkelstein's given name in Hebrew — and the congregation is popularly abbreviated as " KOE ").

In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the fish which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which eats one whale each day.

Eliezer is also supposed to be the author of a history of the terrible events of 1096, the year of the German Crusade, part of the First Crusade.

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.

Besht ’ s parents died soon after his birth ; bequeathing to him only the deathbed exhortation of Eliezer, “ Always believe that God is with you, and fear nothing .” Besht ever remained true to this injunction.

His own son, Eliezer Yehudah ( Lazer Yudel ) Finkel eventually became the head of the far older Mir yeshiva, eventually leading it all the way to Jerusalem where it is today the largest post-high school yeshiva in the world with thousands of students.

In Sotah 10b, Samael is Esau's guardian angel, and in the Sayings of Rabbi Eliezer, he is charged with being the one who tempted Eve, then seduced and impregnated her with Cain.

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits writes that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.

The fact that Eliezer was his first teacher, and the only one whom Akiva later designates as " rabbi ," is of importance in settling the date of Akiva's birth.

Israel ben Eliezer left no books ; for the Kabbalistic commentary on Ps.

Nahmanides, in his commentary on the Torah, sides with Samuel and Rabbi Eliezer.

Pellikan wrote the Chronikon and also translated Hebrew works into Latin, such as Bechji Ben Asher's commentary on the Torah and the work of Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer ( Eliezer filius Hircani ), the Liber sententiarum Judiacarum, in 1546.

* " Kotnot Or ", homiletic commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Scrolls, ( published, with the " Or Chadash " of his grandson, Eliezer Kalir, under the title " Meore Esh " the latter word being an abbreviation of " Eisenstadt ").

The Shem HaGedolim by Chaim Joseph David Azulai, ( entry on Rebbe Eliezer bar Nosson

Zamenhof's parents gave him the Hebrew name Eliezer, which appeared on his birth certificate in its Yiddish form Leyzer.

However, in the 11th century, the Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, drawing on ancient legends of the fallen angel or angels, brought back to the mainstream of rabbinic thought the personification of evil and the corresponding myth.

His main sources were the Babylonian Talmud, the complete Midrash Rabbah, the Midrash Tanhuma, and the two Pesiktot ( Pesikta De-Rav Kahana or Pesikta Rabbati ), the Midrash on Psalms, the Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, and the Targum Onkelos.

The attacks on the Jews were witnessed by Ekkehard of Aura and Albert of Aix ; among the Jewish communities, the main contemporary witnesses were the Mainz Anonymous, Eliezer ben Nathan, and Solomon bar Simson.

Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Joseph Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, Emanuel Rackman, Eliezer Berkovits and others have written on this issue ; many of their works have been collected in a volume published by the Rabbinical Council of America: Theological and Halakhic Reflections on the Holocaust ( edited by Bernhard H. Rosenberg and Fred Heuman, Ktav / RCA, 1992 ).

Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits ( 1908 – 1992 ) holds that man's free will depends on God's decision to remain hidden.

Rabbi Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi Ha-rofeh Ashkenazi of Nicosia (" the physician ") the author of Yosif Lekah on the Book of Esther.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who founded the Hebrew Language Committee, coined thousands of new words and concepts based on Biblical, Talmudic and other sources, to cope with the needs and demands of life in the 20th century.

It was also at this time that the Givat Olga neighborhood was constructed on the coast, and Beit Eliezer in the east of the city.

Hasidism's founder was Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov (" master of a good name " usually applied to a saintly Jew who was also a wonder-worker ), or simply " the Besht "; he taught that man's relationship with God depended on immediate religious experience, in addition to knowledge and observance of the details of the Torah and Talmud.

His father, Eliezer Feiler, worked on a kibbutz and was a leftist activist.

In 1968, a group of Jews led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger and Rabbi Eliezer Waldman founded Kiryat Arba on the eastern outskirts of Hebron.

In December 1976, the book Sherbet on Tour, by Christie Eliezer, sold 30, 000 copies in its first week.

Until recently, Halivni was the spiritual leader of Kehilat Orach Eliezer, a congregation on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a position he had held since the congregation's foundation in 1992.

Samuel and Rabbi Eliezer Hakappar, focusing on the sin-offering of the nazirite, regarded nazirites, as well as anyone who fasted when not obligated to or took any vow whatsoever, as a sinner.

Once this permission was granted, Rebekah joined Eliezer on the road home to Isaac.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the " father of modern Hebrew ", had instead used Yeshua for Jesus ( the name used in Maimonides and the expanded Josippon ) but, Kjaer-Hansen argues, this choice lost out to Yeshu as a result of Klausner's influential Hebrew work on Jesus titled Yeshu HaNotzri published in 1922.

Eliezer ; for the AI researcher and writer on rationality see Eliezer Yudkowsky ; for the Levite priest of the Hebrew Bible, see Eleazar.

There is an interpretation in Bereshit Rabbah ( 43: 2 ), cited by Rashi, that Eliezer went alone with Abraham to rescue Lot, with the reference to " his initiates " stated to be 318 in number ( Lech-Lecha 14: 14 ) being the numerical value of Eliezer's name in Hebrew, interpreted in tractate Nedarim ( 32a ) as Abraham not wishing to rely on a miracle by taking only one individual.

* Chiddushei ha-Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer al ha-Shas ( novellae on the Talmud, published posthumously, 1986 ).