Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Modern Hebrew: מנחם מענדל שניאורסון; Medieval Hebrew spelling: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to many as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire-born American Orthodox rabbi, the most recent Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic …

Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism.Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development …

A Míxena judaica, uma coleção de ensinos e de tradições rabínicos, é um tanto mais explícita. Credita-se sua compilação ao rabino Judá, o Príncipe, que viveu no segundo e no terceiro séculos EC. Parte da matéria da Míxena relaciona-se claramente às circunstâncias anteriores à destruição de Jerusalém e do seu templo, em 70 EC.

Life. Born to a non-Hasidic family in Goraj near Lublin, Poland, he became attracted to Hasidic philosophy in his youth.He was known for having acquired impressive Talmudic and Kabbalistic knowledge at an early age. He was a student of Reb Bunim of Peshischa, and upon the latter's death attracted many of his followers.Morgensztern was well known for his incisive and down …

Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Hebrew: ישעיהו ליבוביץ ‎; 29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath.He was a professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a prolific writer on Jewish thought and western philosophy.He was known for his outspoken views on ethics ...

Breslov (also Bratslav, also spelled Breslev) is a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism.Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with God, and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman.. The movement has had no …

Entre estos figuran el Hilchot HaRif, del rabino Isaac Alfasi (1013-1103), y el comentario del rabino Asher ben Jehiel (1259-1321). El libro Séfer Mitzvot Gadol, del rabino Moisés ben Jacob de Coucy, nacido en el Reino de Francia, así como el Sefer Ha-Chinuch, que contiene los 613 mandamientos (mitzvot) en el orden en el que aparecen en la ...

Menasseh ben Israel was the author of many works. His major work Nishmat Hayim is a treatise in Hebrew on the Jewish concept of reincarnation of souls, published by his son Samuel six years before they both died. Some scholars think that he studied kabbalah with Abraham Cohen de Herrera, a disciple of Israel Saruk.This would explain his familiarity with the method of Isaac …

En el judaísmo, un rabino (en hebreo רַבִּי rabī (en yidis se acuñó el término רבה Rebeh)) es equivalente a maestro o "su excelencia". La palabra rabino deriva de la raíz hebrea רַב rav, la cual significa, en hebreo bíblico, "abundante" o, en arameo, "distinguido".. Era una figura netamente farisaica en sus orígenes, hacia el siglo III a. C., perseguía desplazar a los ...

Early life. Shlomo Amar was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to Eliyahu and Mima (Miriam) Amar.His family immigrated to Israel in 1962 when Shlomo was 14. Shlomo studied in the Ponovezh Yeshiva. He transfered to a small Yeshiva in the northern town of Shlomi, where at age 19, was appointed as the rabbi of the town.At age 20 he also served as the head of kashrut for …