Kaf Hachayim lang he translation the hand palm of life is the title of two widely cited codes of Jewish law . It may refer to a work by Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Sofer a work by Rabbi Hayim Palaggi disambiguation Category Rabbinic legal texts and responsa Judaism stub ... more details
Wiktionary megillah Megillah may refer to Bible The Scroll of Esther Megillat Esther , read on the Jewish holiday of Purim The Five Megillot Megillat Antiochus Rabbinic literature Megillah Talmud Tractate Megillah in the Talmud. Megillat Taanit , a tannaitic document listing Jewish days of celebration. Ottoman civil codex Mecelle disambig de Megilla nl Megilla ... more details
Padwa is a surname it may refer to the following individuals Chanoch Dov Padwa 1908 2000 , an Orthodox Jewish posek and rabbinic leader Imanuel Permenas Padwa born 1984 , an Indonesian footballer Vladimir Padwa 1900 1981 , an American pianist, composer, and educator Other meanings Gudi Padwa , a Hindu holy day disambiguation Surname ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Sefer Zadok is the name of a Sadducean text, containing the doctrines of the Sadducees, allegedly written by their founder, Zadok. No copies of this text are extant today, except for quotes in the polemics of Rabbinic and Karaite Jew ish scholars of that time period. The Sefer Zadok is also referred to in texts by Josephus and in the Talmud as a text containing the doctrines and beliefs of Sadduccee Judaism . There are many stories, anecdotes, and religious and political ideas attributed to the Sadduccees in these texts. These works were, however, produced by those who stood in opposition to the Sadduccees primarily the Pharisees and are thus suspect. Little else is known about this text and those who followed its teachings. See also Sadducee Category Non rabbinic Jewish texts ... more details
Reb lang yi is a Yiddish honorific traditionally used for Orthodox Judaism Orthodox Jewish men. It is not a rabbinic title it is the equivalent of the English mister . In writing it is abbreviated as . History The title was adopted by Orthodox Jews at the time of the schism with the Karaite Judaism Karaites , as a sign of loyalty to Rabbinic Judaism . ref Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach , Halikhot Shlomo 1 370 373 br Salo Wittmayer Baron , A Social and Religious History of the Jews , vol. 5 p. 283 ref Usage When addressing someone directly, Reb is usually used with the first name only May I help you, Reb Chaim? . In other circumstances, it can be used with either the first name or the full name This is Reb Chaim Jacobs. Would you please help Reb Chaim? . In formal written address, it is usually used along with the full name. It is never used with the surname alone. ref The Chosen Chaim Potok gets this wrong, constantly referring to Danny s father as Reb Saunders instead of Reb Yitzchok or in English Rabbi Saunders . ref When a man s name is unknown, he is often addressed as Reb Yid Mr Jew . Notes reflist Category Titles Category Yiddish words and phrases Category Orthodox rabbinic roles and titles Yiddish stub pl Reb ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2007 Sefer in simple Hebrew language Hebrew is a word that means any kind of book plural s farim . It is derived from the same Hebrew root word as sofer scribe , sifriyah library and safrut literature . Among Orthodox Judaism Orthodox Jews it is used for books both of the Tanakh , the oral law Mishnah and Talmud or any work of Rabbinic literature . Works unrelated to Torah study are rarely called sefer by English speaking Orthodox Jews. Category Hebrew words and phrases Judaism stub it Sefer ... more details
Ramban, RaMBaN can refer to Nahmanides 1194 c. 1270 , Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, Kabbalist and biblical commentator Ramban Synagogue in East Jerusalem Cave of the Ramban in East Jerusalem Ramban Jammu and Kashmir , town in Jammu Ramban district , Jammu and Kashmir of India Ranban disambig geo surname Category Hebrew language surnames Category Rabbinic surnames ... more details
Magid may refer to Maggid or Magid, traditional Eastern European Jewish religious itinerant preacher in Judaism Larry Magid born 1947 , American journalist, technology columnist and commentator Lee Magid 1926 2007 , American record producer See also Majed , a common Arabic name and given name alternatives Majid , Maged , Magid Maggid disambiguation disambig surname Category Hebrew words and phrases Category Hebrew language surnames Category Jewish surnames Category Rabbinic surnames ar ru ... more details
Pachad Yitzchok or Pachad Yitschak may refer to Hebrew of Fear of Isaac , a Biblical reference in Genesis 31 42 an allusion to Names of God in Judaism God The writings or person of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner 1906 1980 The writings or person of Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman 1850 1917 , First Rebbe of Boyan Hasidic dynasty Boyan Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok A rabbinic encyclopedia authored by Isaac Lampronti 1679 1756 disambig Category Hebrew words and phrases ... more details
Beit Yosef lang he also Hebrew transliteration transliterated Beth Yosef is a book by Rabbi Joseph Caro . It is a long, detailed commentary on the Arba ah Turim . It served as a precursor to the Shulchan Aruch , which Rabbi Caro wrote later in his life. For more information on this book, see the section Shulchan Aruch Beth Yosef Beth Yosef in the article Shulchan Aruch . Category Rabbinic legal texts and responsa judaism stub he ... more details
Schulberg means synagogue mountain is a surname, and may refer to B. P. Schulberg 1892 1957 , pioneer film producer and movie studio executive Budd Schulberg 1914 2009 , American screenwriter and novelist Jay Schulberg Jay William Schulberg 1939 2005 , American advertising executive Richard Shulberg surname Schulberg, Schulberger Category Jewish surnames Category Rabbinic surnames Category German language surnames ... more details
Rabbi Nathan may mean Nathan the Babylonian , 2nd century rabbinic sage from the Land of Israel , son of a Babylonian exilarch . Nathan ben Isaac ha Babli , 10th century Babylonian Jewish historian. Nathan ben Jehiel , 11th century Italian lexicographer. Nathan of Cento , 13th century Italian translator. Nathan of Gaza , 17th century theologian. Nathan of Breslov , 19th century hasidic rabbi. disambig ... more details
Shlomo HaKohen of Lissa 18th century was a rabbi and biblical commentator. He authored the supercommentary Avi Ezer on the commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Pentateuch , which is included in some versions of the Mikraot Gedolot . ref Mikraot Gedolot w 19 commentaries, Z. Berman ref References reflist rabbi stub category Kohanim authors of Rabbinic literature Category 18th century rabbis ... more details
Aaron of Pesaro was an Italian Talmudist who flourished in the sixteenth century at Pesaro , Italy. He wrote Toledot Aharon The Generations of Aaron , an index to Scriptural quotations in the Talmud, arranged in the order of the Bible. This was first printed at Freiburg in 1583, and, in an abbreviated form, is found in rabbinic Bibles. References Jewish Encyclopedia Category 16th century Italian people Category Talmudists Category Italian Jews Category People from Pesaro ... more details
Choshen Mishpat is the Hebrew for Breastplate of Judgement . The term is associated with one of the four sections of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher s compilation of halakha Jewish law , Arba ah Turim . This section treats aspects of Jewish law pertinent to finance , tort s, legal procedure and loans and interest in Judaism . Later, Rabbi Yosef Karo modeled the framework of his own compilation of practical Jewish law, the Shulkhan Arukh after the Arba ah Turim. Many later commentators used this framework, as well. Thus, Choshen Mishpat in common usage may refer to an area of halakha, non specific to Rabbi Jacob ben Asher s compilation. See Also Orach Chayim Yoreh De ah Even Ha ezer Further reading Quint, Emanuel, 1990 2007, A Restatement of Rabbinic Civil Law 11 Vol. Set , Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 978 0876687659 External references http learnchoshenmishpat.com Category Rabbinic legal texts and responsa Category Hebrew words and phrases Judaism stub reli book stub fr Hoshen Mishpat it Choshen Mishpat he ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Sefer ha Qabbalah Hebrew language Hebrew for Book of Tradition was a book authored by Abraham ibn Daud around 1161. A chronicle of the Jewish people , it contains valuable historical and philosophical information. The book is a response to Karaitic attacks against the historical legitimacy of rabbinic judaism, and contains, among other items, the controversial tale of the kidnapping by pirates of four great rabbinic scholars from Babylonian academies, whose subsequent ransoming by Jewish communities around the Mediterranean accounts for the transmission of scholarly legitimacy to the Rabbis of Jewish centers in North Africa and Spain. At the time, the term Kabbalah did not yet assume the mythical and esoteric connotations by which it is now known. DEFAULTSORT Sefer Ha Qabbalah Category Jewish philosophical and ethical texts Category Jewish history Hist book stub Jewish hist stub Philo book stub Reli book stub ... more details
Soloveitchik lang he lang yi also Soloveichik is a surname. The source of the name is from the Russian language Russian word for songbird, since the Soloveitchiks are a family of Levite Levites , who are commanded by the Torah to sing in the Beit Hamikdash . It is notably the name of a rabbinic family descended from Yosef Dov Soloveitchik Beis Halevi 1820 1892 . Members include Ahron Soloveichik 1917 2001 Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik Berel Soloveitchik 1915 1981 Chaim Soloveitchik 1853 1918 Eliyahu Soloveichik Eliyahu Soloveitchik 19th century Haym Soloveitchik 1937 Joseph B. Soloveitchik 1903 1993 Meir Soloveichik Moshe Soloveichik 1879 1941 Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik Refoel Soloveitchik 1926 1996 Samuel Soloveichik 1909 1967 Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik 1886 1959 Family tree Brisker Family Tree LEV soloveichik from Ashqelon See also Brisk tradition and Soloveitchik dynasty Category Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty Category Jewish families Category Jewish surnames Category Slavic language surnames surname stub Jewish hist stub fr Soloveitchik he ru ... more details
Tumah and taharah In the realm of tumah and taharah terminology, the term Av HaTumah father of tumah, or simply Av is a rabbinic term used to define a person or object that is in a state of tumah ritual impurity to the second degree. A person or object that is a Av HaTumah has the ability to transfer its tumah to another person or object usually at a downgraded level of tumah . There are two types of Av HaTumah , the first being one textually listed in the Torah D Oraita and D Rabbanan D Oraita , the second being one of rabbinic origin D Oraita and D Rabbanan D Rabbanan . Torah source Empty section date June 2011 Examples An Av HaTumah is generally a person or object that is listed in the Torah . Common examples of an Av HaTumah include a zav , zavah , niddah , tzaraath metzorah leper , and midras . Purification A person or object that is under Av HaTumah status can usually be purified by immersion in a mikveh and the elapse of sunset. An exception to purification eligibility are Terracotta vessels that cannot be purified until broken . DEFAULTSORT Av Hatumah Category Jewish ritual purity law Judaism stub he ... more details
Hasa of Eshtemoa lang he Hebrew was a amora active in Eshtemoa in the Land of Israel during the end of the 3rd century or beginning of the 4th century CE. ref name Rosenfeld2009pg81 cite book author Ben Zion Rosenfeld title Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine 70 400 C.e History and Geographic Distribution url http books.google.com books?id dD dGmWh73QC&pg PA81 accessdate 12 June 2011 year 2009 publisher BRILL isbn 9789004178380 page 81 ref He is mentioned once in the Jerusalem Talmud as being visited by Rav Yasa of Tiberias . ref name Rosenfeld2009pg105 cite book author Ben Zion Rosenfeld title Torah Centers and Rabbinic Activity in Palestine 70 400 C.e History and Geographic Distribution url http books.google.com books?id dD dGmWh73QC&pg PA106 accessdate 12 June 2011 year 2009 publisher BRILL isbn 9789004178380 page 105 ref References Reflist Amoraim Category Talmud rabbis of the Land of Israel rabbi stub he ... more details
Rabbinic mitzvah Rabbinic decrees under certain circumstances. This concept has been used in a number ... The Rabbis of the Talmud, when they enacted rabbinic decrees, sometimes limited the scope of those ... across a private property line is prohibitted by a rabbinic prohibition See eruv , but the Talmud ... this rabbinic prohibition in order to greet a king, again appealing to the principle of kevod habriyot ... created an exception of the rabbinic prohibition on creating even temporary structures on Shabbat ... rabbinic restrictions. The reference to annulling a negative commandment of the Bible refers only to the commandment lo tasur , in other words the command to observe rabbinic restrictions, so the Talmud ... activities such as carrying stones and hence the principle of kevod habriyot overrides the rabbinic ... other rabbinic prohibitions. R. Sperber s view has been a controversial one within Orthodox Judaism ... shel Halakha . In Rabbi Frimer s view, the concept of kevod habriyot can override rabbinic prohibitions ..., but cannot override a rabbinic prohibition in its entirety. He argued that a rabbinic decree cannot itself be regarded shameful or embarrassing, and that to permit a rabbinic decree to be characterized as an embarrassment would give anyone carte blanche to abrogate any Rabbinic prohibition simply by saying ..., then kevod ha beriyyot cannot set aside the Rabbinic prohibition. One should be proud to be fulfilling ... which supported liberalizing Conservative Judaism s view of homosexual behavior . They held that rabbinic ... general society s evolving understanding of human dignity and that the rabbinic prohibitions involved were inconsistent with human dignity thus understood. Citing R. Daniel Sperber s view that rabbinic prohibitions can be negated by the kevod habriyot principle, the responsum declared all rabbinic ... could only override rabbinic and not Biblically mandated restrictions, the responsum left in place ... of kevod habriyot and held that the rule only permits overriding rabbinic injunctions out of honor ... more details
by following rabbinic interpretation of the destruction of Jerusalem, systematically demonstrating ... of Lamentations 1MB pdf , Doctoral Thesis, Oxford, 2000. Brady, Christian M.M. The Rabbinic Targum ... more details
Neusner s scholarly activity is vast. Generally, his research centers around rabbinic Judaism ... to Rabbinic texts . Much of Neusner s work has been to de construct the prevailing approach viewing Rabbinic Judaism as a single religious movement within which the various Rabbinic texts were produced. In contrast, Neusner views each rabbinic document as an individual piece of evidence that can only ... documents of the rabbinic canon . Neusner s method of studying documents individually without contextualizing them with other Rabbinic documents of the same era or genre, led to a series of very ... to one another, even as they emerge diversely in discrete rabbinic documents. Neusner has translated into English nearly the entire Rabbinic canon. This work has opened up many Rabbinic documents ... a Harvard outline format which attempts to make the argument flow of Rabbinic texts easier to understand ... has aimed to make Rabbinic literature useful to specialists in a variety of fields within the academic ... of Rabbinic Sources in the Studies of the Pharisees and Pharisaim, Jewish Quarterly Review, 62, 1974, p. 122 135. ref ref name Zeusse Evan M. Zuesse, The Rabbinic Treatment of Others Criminals, Gentiles according to Jacob Neusner, Review of Rabbinic Judaism, Vol. VII, 2004, p. 191 229 ref ref ... of Rabbinic texts, finding that his account is forced and inaccurate e.g., Cohen ... scholars have questioned Neusner s grasp of Rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic. Probably the most famous ... of Rabbinic Hebrew, of Aramaic grammar, and above all of the subject matter with which he ... more details
The Living Torah is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan , published by Moznaim publishers. It was and remains a highly popular translation, and was reissued in a Hebrew English version with haftarot for synagogue use. Rabbi Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations Make it clear and readable Keep it close to the basic meaning peshat of the text in many places, but in other places translated it to be in accord with post biblical Rabbinical literature rabbinic commentary and Jewish codes of law. Keeping it faithful to Orthodox Judaism Orthodox Jewish tradition Provide useful notes, a table of contents, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. Rabbi Kaplan s translation has been criticised in some circles for mis translating the text. The dispute comes about because he consciously attempted not to present a straight translation of the text, but rather interspersed the translation with later rabbinic commentary and Jewish law. However, this work has be hailed as one of the best English translations of the Torah, next to Rabbi Hirsch s translation, because of his inclusion of the rabbinic elucidation of the text. Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Sheinberg , a prominent legal decider for the Orthodox community, is reported to have said that the translation is so good that one can fulfil the obligatory weekly reading of the Torah twice in Hebrew and once with translation usually Aramaic called Shnayim mikra ve echad targum Shnei Mikra vEchad Targum with this targum translation if one is not able to read the Aramaic translation of Onkelos usually printed next to the Torah s words in many modern printings. The Living Nach The Living Torah was later supplemented by The Living Nach on Nevi im two volumes The Early Prophets and The Latter Prophets and Ketuvim Sacred Writings in one volume . These were prepared posthumously following Rabbi Kaplan s format by others including Yaakov Elman. See also Jewi ... more details
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert born 1965 is a professor in the Religious Studies department of Stanford University . She specializes in Judaism , especially talmudic literature and culture. Her research interests include gender in Jewish culture, the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity , the discourses of orthodoxy versus heresy, and rabbinic conceptions of Judaism with respect to Greco Roman culture. She completed her graduate training at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. In 2009, she was named to the inaugural membership of the Shalom Hartman Institute North American Scholars Circle. Fonrobert is the author of Menstrual Purity Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender 2000 , which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of the year and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She is currently working on a project which examines the relationship between religious identity and space, ranging from urban neighborhoods to the wilderness, in Jewish and Christian Late Antiquity. As part of this project, she edited and introduced a collection of articles on the subject of Jewish Conceptions and Practices of Space together with Vered Shemtov Stanford University . She is also in the process of co editing the Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature, with Martin Jaffee University of Washington . External links http www.stanford.edu dept jewishstudies people fonrobert index.html A profile of Fonrobert at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies page which includes her Curriculum Vitae, Publications, and more. http www.sup.org book.cgi?book id 3725 204553 20 An overview of her book Menstrual Purity Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fonrobert, Charlotte ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1965 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fonrobert, Charlotte Category Judaic studies in academia Category Stanford University facul ... more details
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