There are those who attribute Sifra diTzni ` uta to the patriach Yaakov ; however, Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi of Kamarno in his book Zohar Chai wrote, " Sifra diTzni ` uta was composed by Rashbi ... and he arranged from baraitas which were transmitted to Tannaim from mount Sinai from the days of Moshe, similar to the way Rabeinu HaKadosh arranged the six orders of Mishnah from that which was repeated from before.

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Ziditchov wrote a commentary on the Zohar entitled Ateres Tzvi.

** Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Ziditshov ( 1763-1831 ), author of Ateres Tzvi on the Zohar, son of Rabbi Isaac of Safrin

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh was very passionate about studying Kabbalah, Zohar, and the Kitvei Ari (" writings of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria ") in particular.

His book Ateret Tzvi includes his commentary on the Zohar.

In the following generation, leaders of the Musar movement included Simcha Zissel's student Nosson Tzvi Finkel of Slobodka, and Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horwitz of Novaradok.

After returning to Israel, Yosef studied at midrash " Bnei Zion ", then headed by Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank.

* Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky ( I ), first leader of the Hasidic group Dushinsky

* the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Western countries, who adopted a certain number of Kabbalistic usages piecemeal in the 17th century but later abandoned them because it was felt that the Lurianic Kabbalah had contributed to the Shabbetai Tzvi disaster.

Born Tzvi Hirsh Graetz to a butcher family in Xions ( Książ Wielkopolski ), Poznan, in Prussia ( now in Poland ), he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena though he had attended Breslau University because Jews at the time were barred from receiving Ph. D. s at that institution.

After his mysterious death somewhere in the area of Turkish Albania, groups of Jews continued to be clandestine followers of Shabtai Tzvi even though they had outwardly converted to Islam, these Jews being known as the Donmeh.

The two returned with a present for Segal from Shabbetai Tzvi — a white silk robe, along with a letter in which the latter promised to avenge the wrongs of the Jews of Poland.

The rabbi of Liskova's Jews before World War II was Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Weinstein ( later of London ).

Cedarhurst is home to a number of shuls, including the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center, Congregation Tifereth Zvi, Kehilas Bais Yehuda Tzvi ( otherwise known as The Red Shul ), Agudath Israel of the Five Towns, Chabad of the Five Towns, and the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst.

Gush Emunim's beliefs were based heavily on the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and his son, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, who taught that secular Zionists, through their conquests of Eretz Israel, had unwittingly brought about the beginning of the Messianic age, which would culminate in the coming of the messiah, which Gush Emunim supporters believe can be hastened through Jewish settlement on land they believe God has allotted to the Jewish people as set forth in the Hebrew Bible.

When Israel declared independence, Givati consisted of 5 battalions, with notable commanders such as Jehuda Wallach ( 51st Battalion ), Ya ' akov Pri ( 52nd Battalion ), Yitzhak Pundak ( 53rd Battalion ), Tzvi Tzur ( 54th Battalion ) and Eitan Livni ( 55th Battalion ).

* Nosson Tzvi Finkel ( Mir ) ( 1943-2011 ), of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel

Naphtali Herz Imber (,, also known as Naphtali Tzvi Imber, Naphtali Zvi Imber, Naphtali Hertz Imber or Naphtali Hirsch Imber, 1856 – 8 October 1909 ) was a Jewish poet and Zionist who wrote the lyrics of Hatikvah, the national anthem of the State of Israel.

* Rabinowicz, Tzvi M. Hasidism in Israel: A History of the Hasidic Movement and Its Masters in the Holy Land.

Sabbatai Zevi ( ש ַׁ ב ְּ ת ַ אי צ ְ ב ִ י Shabbetai Tzvi, other spellings include Sabbatai Ẓevi, Shabbetai Ẓevi, Sabbatai Sevi, and Sabetay Sevi in Turkish ) ( August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676 in Dulcigno ( present day Ulcinj, Montenegro ) was a Sephardic Rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah.

Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi ( 1656 – 1718 ) known as the Chacham Tzvi, for some time rabbi of Amsterdam, was a resolute opponent of the followers of Sabbatai Zevi.

It was in 1713, while Cohen was staying at Breslau ( where he acted as a rabbi until 1716 ), that Haham Tzvi Ashkenazi of Amsterdam informed him of its tenets.

Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi was a student of his father, but most notably also a student of his grandfather Rabbi Elijah Ba ' al Shem of Chelm.

Rabbi Jacob Emden was a student of his father Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch ben Yaakov Ashkenazi a Rabbi in Amsterdam.

Until seventeen, Emden studied Talmud under his father Tzvi Ashkenazi, a foremost rabbinic authority, first at Altona, then at Amsterdam ( 1710 – 1714 ).

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Abraham Zevi Idelsohn ( Avrohom Tzvi Idelsohn in Ashkenazi Hebrew ; middle name also rendered Tzvi, Zvi, Zwi, or Zebi ; July 14, 1882 – August 14, 1938 ) was a prominent Jewish ethnologist and musicologist, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world.

* A World's Revival ( Hebrew: תבל בתחיתה Tevel Be-Thiatah ) ( 1955 ) by Tzvi Livneh.

Although some rabbis since the Shabbetai Tzvi debacle still maintain that one should be married and forty years old in order to study Kabbalah, since the time of Baal Shem Tov there has been relaxation of such stringency, and many maintain that it is sufficient to be married and knowledgeable in halakhah and hence permitted to study Kabbalah and by inclusion, Tikunei haZohar ; and some rabbis will advise learning Kabbalah without restrictions of marriage or age.

At this time, following attempts by the Lithuanian government to draft yeshiva students into the army, the Lithuanian Knesses Yisroel relocated to Hebron, after consultations between Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, Yechezkel Sarna and Moshe Mordechai Epstein.

This collection was published by Saul Berlin, Tzvi Hirsch Levin's son.

At the time of the 1977 Mogadishu mission, the Commander of the Israeli Border Police Tzvi War described GSG 9 as " The best anti-terrorist group in the world.

* Langermann, Tzvi, " Abraham Ibn Ezra ", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006.

* Commemorative remarks upon the occasion of the 10th Yahrzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb of the Orthodox Union

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.

He launched a ban against the author and his book, and became one of the most zealous supporters of Haham Tzvi in his campaign against Hayyun.

Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, tended by his yeshiva students, in the British Mandate of Palestine in his last years.

Gush Emunim was founded by students of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook in February 1974 in the living room of Haim Drukman, who is also credited with coining the term.

In Eros and Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Professor of Jewish Mysticism, Hebrew University in Jerusalem ) argues that the fundamental distinction between the rational-philosophic strain of Judaism and mystical Judaism, as exemplified by the Zohar, is the mystical belief that the Godhead is complex, rather than simple, and that divinity is dynamic and incorporates gender, having both male and female dimensions.

The biblical text states that Moses asked Hashem to rule on the issue ; the Zohar argues that Moses had presented the case to Hashem, rather than deciding it himself, because Moses was modest.

A baraita offers, as justification for the ritual of hand-washing after waking, the belief that a spirit of impurity rests upon each person during the night, and will not leave until the person's hands are washed, and the Zohar argues that body is open to demonic possession during sleep because the soul temporarily leaves the body during it ; the kabbalah argues that death awaits anyone who walks more than four yards from their bed without ablution.