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Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri

Rabbi Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (Hebrew: אלעזר בן משה אזכרי‎‎) (1533–1600) was a Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer

Hillel the Elder

Hillel (Hebrew: הלל; variously called Hillel HaGadol, or Hillel HaZaken, Hillel HaBavli or HaBavli,

Shammai the Elder

Shammai (50 BCE – 30 CE, Hebrew: שמאי) was a Jewish scholar of the 1st century, and an important figure in Judaism's cor…

Ezekiel the Prophet

Ezekiel, (c. 622 – c. 570 BCE), was a Hebrew prophet of the Old Testament

Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai

Yohanan ben Zakkai,( 1st century CE), was one of the Tannaim, an important Jewish sage in the era of the Second Temple

Joshua ben Hananiah

Joshua ben Hananiah (Hebrew: יהושע בן חנניה d. 131 CE), also known as Rabbi Yehoshua, was a leading tanna of the first h…

Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati

Rabbi Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati (1223–1290) (Hebrew: מנחם בן בנימין ריקנטי‎) was an Italian rabbi who flourished dur…

Rabbi Joseph ben Solomon Ṭaiṭazaḳ

Rabbi Joseph ben Solomon Ṭaiṭazaḳ (Hebrew: יוסף בן שלמה טאיטאצק), also referred to by the acronym MahaRITaTS, was a talm…

Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

Rabbi Shlomo ha-Levi Alkabetz, also spelt Alqabitz, Alqabes; (Hebrew: שלמה אלקבץ) (c. 1500 – 1576) was a rabbi, kabbalis…

Rabbi Moses Hagiz

Rabbi Moses Hagiz (1671 – c. 1750) (Hebrew: משה חגיז) was a Talmudic scholar,  kabbalist, and writer

Rabbi Israel Meshullam Solomon

Rabbi Israel Meshullam Solomon (1723 – 1794) (born as Israel Meshullam Zalman Emden ) was one of two rival Chief Rabbis …

Rabbi Eleazar Chisma

Rabbi Eleazar Chisma (Ḥisma; Hebrew: אלעזר חסמא‎, "Eleazar Chasma", or אלעזר בן חסמא, "Eleazar ben Chasma") was a tanna …

Rabbi Eleazar bar Zadok

Rabbi Eleazar bar Zadok, or Elazar Berabi Zadok, was a rabbi from the period of the Tannaim, who is mentioned many times…

Rabbi Zadok

Rabbi Zadok (Hebrew: רבי צדוק) was a Tanna of the second generation of the Tannaic era, a contemporary of Joshua ben Han…

Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus

Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus (Hebrew: אליעזר בן הורקנוס), variant spelling, Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, was a kohen, and one of …

Rabbi Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai

Rabbi Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai (Hebrew: מאיר בן יחזקאל אבן גבאי) was a Kabbalist born in Spain toward the end of 1480

Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor

Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor was a famous writer on Kabbalah

Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar

Yaakov ben Yakar (990–1064) was a German Talmudist. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil …

Rabbi Ḥananel ben Ḥushiel

Rabbi  Ḥananel ben Ḥushiel , an 11th-century Kairouanan rabbi and Talmudist, was a student of one of the last Geonim. He…

Rabbi Eliezer ben Nathan

Rabbi Eliezer ben Nathan (Hebrew: אליעזר בן נתן) of Mainz (1090–1170), or Ra'aven (ראב"ן), was a halakist and liturgical…