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Moses ha-Levi ha-Nazir was a rabbi of the 17th-century. He was the father of Joseph ha-Levi and son-in-law of the Talmudist Abraham ibn Hananiah, rabbi of Hebron and pupil of Joseph di Trani. He is also mentioned as a messenger from the Holy Land. This accounts for the fact that he is met with in many places, including Constantinople, Greece, and Morea.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gotthard Deutsch and Lazarus Grünhut (1901–1906). "Moses ha-Levi ha-Nazir". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography: Chaim Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, p. 136.
The Tosafot,Tosafos or Tosfot are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed, in almost all Talmud editions, on the outer margin and opposite Rashi's notes.
Jacob Berab, also spelled Berav or Bei-Rav,, was an influential rabbi and talmudist best known for his attempt to reintroduce classical semikhah (ordination).
Isaiah or Yeshayahu ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz, , also known as the Shelah HaKaddosh after the title of his best-known work, was a prominent rabbi and mystic.
Rabbi Aharon ben Joseph ha-Levi, known by his Hebrew acronym Ra'aH, was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and Halakhist.
Halevi may refer to:
Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi Minz was a German rabbi, a disciple of R. Yaakov Weil and contemporary of Israel Isserlein, whom he frequently consulted. He was successively rabbi at Mainz, Landau, Bamberg, and Posen. He is one of the first known Jewish Scholars to have officiated as Rav of a city in Poland.
Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi flourished about the mid-12th or 13th century and was a prominent Provençal rabbi, Philosopher, and Talmudist.
Isaac ben Merwan ha-Levi was a Provençal rabbi and Talmudist; he was the elder son of Merwan of Narbonne.
Jacob ben Abraham Faitusi was a Tunisian Jewish scholar. He settled in the later part of his life at Jerusalem, whence he was sent as a collector of alms to Italy and Algeria.
Hachmei Provence refers to the rabbis of Provence, now known as Occitania, France that was a great Torah center in the times of the Tosafists. The phrase literally means the wise ones of Provence; hakham "wise one, sage" is a Sephardic and Hachmei Provençal term for a rabbi.
Abraham ben Yitzchak of Montpellier, also known as Avraham min haHar is known as a commentator on the greater part of the Talmud. He lived in mountain city of Montpellier, in the Provence section of France. Towards the end of his life he moved to Carpentras and became a member of the Beth Din of Rabbi Mordechai ben Josepha,.
Judah ben Nathan, also referred to by the Hebrew acronym RIBaN, was a gifted French rabbi and commentator on the Talmud in the eleventh to twelfth century, best known for being the son-in-law and pupil of the great commentator Rashi, and to a great extent his continuator.
Nikolsburg is the name of a Hasidic dynasty descending from R. Samuel Shmelke Horowitz (1726–1778), who held a rabbinic post in Nikolsburg, Margraviate of Moravia, from where the dynasty gets in name. R. Shmelke was a disciple of R. Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.
Aaron HaLevi ben Moses (Hurwitz) of Staroselye was a Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist of note who lived in Poland during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth.
Moses Uri ben Yoseph HaLevi, also Moses Uri Levi or Moses Uri Halewi was originally a German rabbi who become an instrumental figure and a key founder of the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam. Born likely in the German city of Wittmund, Germany or Braunschweig, in the year 1602 he became the first chief rabbi of the Jewish Community of Amsterdam. He is considered to be the founder of the first Jewish community in Amsterdam and the first rabbi of a Sephardic community in Northern Europe.
Israel ben Moses ha-Levi Zamosz was an eighteenth-century Talmudist, mathematician and poet.
Rabbi Sar Shalom ben Moses HaLevi also called Zuta was the last of the Egyptian geonim, he controversially held office in Fustat as the Nagid of the Egyptian community from 1170 - 1171 and again from around 1173 to 1195, during which he was excommunicated several times by Maimonides for tax farming.
The Jaffe family is an Ashkenazi Jewish Rabbinic family originally from Dampierre, France. The family descends from the 12th century Tosafist, Elhanan Jaffe of Dampierre. Members of the family have produced numerous famous Rabbis, Court Jews, Talmudic scholars, Scientists, businessmen, academics and politicians, with members in Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, Israel and the United States.
Moses ben Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz was a rabbi from Krozh, Kovno Governorate.