Rabbi Chaim Noach Levin also wrote in his notes on Megillas Yuchsin that he heard directly from Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi, the head of the Rabbinical court of Lemberg, that when he wanted to go see the remains of the Golem, the sexton of the Alt-Neu Shul said that Rabbi Yechezkel Landau had advised against going up to the attic after he himself had gone up.

The Ben Ish Chai by Yosef Chaim ( Baghdad, 1832 – 1909 ) is a corresponding Sephardi work.

However the non-Hasidic Haredi community of Jerusalem follows the custom that machine-made matzah may be used, with preference to the use of shmurah flour, in accordance with the ruling of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, who actually ruled that machine-made matzah may be preferable to hand made in some cases.

As a result, Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of the Code of Jewish Law, ( Orach Chaim 462: 4.

These rabbis include: Shlomo Goren ( former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ); Chaim David Halevi ( former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Yaffo ); Dov Lior ( Rabbi of Kiryat Arba ); Yosef Elboim ; Yisrael Ariel ; She ' ar Yashuv Cohen ( Chief Rabbi of Haifa ); Yuval Sherlo ( rosh yeshiva of the hesder yeshiva of Petah Tikva ); Meir Kahane.

A prominent 19th and early 20th century rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, claimed upon Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to Palestine in 1898, three decades before Hitler's rise to power, he had a tradition from his teachers that the Germans are descended from the ancient Amalekites.

* Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem

A wealth of later works include commentary and exposition by such halachic authorities as the Ketzoth ha-Choshen and Avnei Millu ' im, Netivoth ha-Mishpat, the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau ( Dagul Mervavah ), Rabbis Akiva Eger, Moses Sofer, and Chaim Joseph David Azulai ( Birkei Yosef ) whose works are widely recognized and cited extensively in later halachic literature.

The Ben Ish Chai, Kaf Ha ' Chaim, and much more recently, the Yalkut Yosef are similar works by Sephardic Rabbis for their communities.

His empathy towards the non-religious elements aroused the suspicions of his more traditionalist haredi opponents, particularly that of the traditional rabbinical establishment that had functioned from the time of Turkey's control of greater Palestine, whose paramount leader was Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

He came from a rabbinical dynasty dating back some 200 years: his paternal grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, and his great-grandfather and namesake was Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beis HaLevi.

The original Agudath Israel movement was established in Europe in 1912 by some of the most famous Orthodox rabbis of the time, including the Chafetz Chaim, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski of Vilna, the Radziner Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Elazar Leiner, the Gerrer Rebbe ( Imrei Emes ) and the Chortkover Rebbe.

The work is broadly considered an authoritative halachic text, and its rulings are frequently cited by later authorities such as Yisrael Meir Kagan in his Mishnah Berurah and the Ben Ish Chai of Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, as well as in many contemporary responsa by leading halachic authorities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Prominent recent authorities who have written commentaries on the work include Rabbis Meir Simcha of Dvinsk ( Ohr Somayach ), Chaim Soloveitchik ( Chiddushei Rabbeinu Chaim ), Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov ( Tevunah ), Isser Zalman Meltzer ( Even HaEzel ) and, more recently, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( Hadran al HaRambam ), Elazar Shach ( Avi Ezri ) and Rabbi Yosef Kapach.

After his 1823 marriage to Esther Fega Eisenstein ( died August 1871, Vilnius ), Rabbi Lipkin settled in Salant, where he continued his studies under Rabbi Hirsch Broda and Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, himself a disciple of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin.

Notable senior faculty include Rabbis Pinchas Kahn, Chaim Kitevits, Yosef Fruchthandler, Shlomo Chai David Yitzchak Halioua, Avigdor Kitevits, Reuven Neirenberg, Eliyahu Yormark, Yitzchok Meir Sendrovitz, Chaim Lazer Kahn, Binyomin Fruchthandler, and Shmaryahu Yitzchok Efraim Kirzner.

In contrast with the position of Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai, who wrote that " None may reply after the Ari " ( that is, none may dispute the rulings of the Ari ), Yosef argues that no special weight should be attached to the rulings of the Ari and the ordinary principles of Halakhic ruling should continue to apply.

Shamir states that he translated various works of Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( Nobel Prize for Literature, 1966 ) from Hebrew into Russian ( 1981 – 2004 ), as well as Chaim Herzog's The Arab-Israeli Wars ( 1986 ).

With regards to feminism, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik was proud to point out that on his parents ' wedding invitation, his grandparents are listed as " Chaim & Lifsha " on one line, with " Soloveitchik " on the next line, centered between their names.

* Ben Ish Chai by Yosef Chaim ( Baghdad, 1832 – 1909 ), a Sephardi work with a similar purpose.

Yosef Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Hai

Hakham Yosef Chaim authored over thirty other works, and there are many published Iraqi rite siddurim ( prayer books ) based on his rulings, which are widely used by Sephardi Jews.

* Yosef ( disambiguation ), a variation of the name in Hebrew

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

* Bet Yosef ve-Ohel Abraham: Jerusalem, Manṣur ( Hebrew only, based on Baghdadi text )

The Hebrew Ashuri script must be and there are three main styles of lettering used: Beis Yosef – generally used by Ashkenazim ; Arizal – generally used by Hasidim ; Velish – used by Sefardim.

He would only allude in the most general ways to other great mystics, in Hebrew mekubalim, such as the Baal Shem Tov ( founder of Hasidism ), the great mystic known as the Ari who lived in the late Middle Ages, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, the Baal HaTanya Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters as well as to the great works of Kabbalah such as the Zohar.

Joseph (, Yosef ; " May Yahweh add ";, ) is an important person in the Hebrew Bible and in the Quran, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

Yosef Haim Brenner ( 1881 – 1921 ) and Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( 1888 – 1970 ), are considered by many to be the fathers of modern Hebrew literature.

* Bet Yosef ve-Ohel Abraham: Jerusalem, Manṣur ( Hebrew only, based on Baghdadi text )

The Od Yosef Chai ( Hebrew: עוד יוסף חי Joseph still lives ) Yeshiva was based there, with Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg of Kfar Chabad serving as its Rosh Yeshiva ( Dean ).

Luis de Torres ( died 1493 ), perhaps born as יוסף בן הלוי העברי, Yosef Ben Ha Levy Haivri, (" Joseph the Son of Levy the Hebrew ") was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage and the first person of Jewish origin to settle in America.

Joseph, son of Caiaphas, Hebrew יוסף ב ַּ ר ק ַ י ָּ פ ָ א or Yosef Bar Kayafa, commonly known simply as Caiaphas () in the New Testament, was the Roman-appointed Jewish high priest who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus.

At the time of the riots, Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew literature was living at the site.

The name Betar בית " ר refers to both the last Jewish fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba revolt ( 136 AD ) and to the altered Hebrew name of " Brit Yosef Trumpeldor " ( ברית יוסף תרומפלדור ).

Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia ( 1724 – 1 March 1806 ) ( Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי ), commonly known as the Hida ( by the acronym of his name, חיד " א ), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.

The works on the Mishneh Torah and first five books of the Hebrew Bible which Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik authored were titled Beis HaLevi ( Hebrew for " House of the Levites ").

Yet, according to other scholars as well as Yemenite Rabbis such as Rabbi Yosef Qafih, and Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Temani Hebrew was not influenced by Yemenite Arabic, as this type of Arabic was also spoken by Yemenite Jews and is distinct from the liturgical Hebrew and the conversational Hebrew of the communities.

Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name Yose, which is etymologically linked to Yosef or Joseph.

These include Rabbi Meir Margolius, chief rabbi of Lemberg and later Ostroha, and author of Meir Netivim ( a work of halachic responsa ) and other works ; Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hakohen, rabbi of Polnoy ; Rabbi Dovid Halperin, rabbi of Ostroha ; Rabbi Israel of Satinov, author of Tiferet Yisrael ; Rabbi Yoseph Heilperin of Slosowitz ; and Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezrich ( AKA the Maggid of Mezritch ) to whose great authority as a Talmudist it was chiefly due that Besht ’ s doctrines ( though in an essentially altered form ) were introduced into learned circles.

Yacov Yoseph would later become the author of the first Hasidic book published (" Toldos Yaacov Yosef " in 1780 ), one of the most direct records of the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov.