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Steven Blane, American Jewish Universalist rabbi; Shlomo Carlebach (1925–1994), composer, singer and pioneer in the Baal Teshuvah movement; Capers C. Funnye Jr. (1952–), first African-American member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis [5] Shlomo Helbrans (1962–2017), rebbe of the Lev Tahor community; Tamara Kolton (1970–), first rabbi in ...
The first collaborative book was 5,000 Years of Jewish Wisdom: Secrets of the Talmud Scriptures, created over a three-day period in 1968 and published in 1971. The book contains actual stories from the Talmud, proverbs, ethics, Jewish legal material, biographies of Talmudic rabbis, and personal stories about Tokayer and his family.
See Johanan (name) for more rabbis by this name. Johanan bar Nappaha (Hebrew: יוחנן בר נפחא Yoḥanan bar Nafḥa; alt. sp. Napaḥa) (also known simply as Rabbi Yochanan, or as Johanan bar Nafcha) (lived 180-279 CE) [1] was a leading rabbi in the early era of the Talmud. He belonged to the second generation of amoraim.
The Talmud has two components: the Mishnah (c. 200 CE), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), a discussion of the Mishnah and related Tannaitic writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Tanakh. The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim (sing. Tanna תנא).
A rabbi (/ ˈ r æ b aɪ /; Hebrew: רַבִּי , romanized: rabbī) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. [1] [2] One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as semikha—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud.
This addition to Jewish texts was seen as causing a "major cultural product" [66] which became an important part of Torah study. [66] [67] In the standard printed Talmud, the Tosafot's commentaries can be found in the Talmud opposite Rashi's commentary. The Tosafot also added comments and criticism in places where Rashi had not added comments.
Abba ben Joseph bar Ḥama (c. 280 – 352 CE), who is exclusively referred to in the Talmud by the name Rava (רבא ), was a Babylonian rabbi who belonged to the fourth generation of amoraim. He is known for his debates with Abaye, and is one of the most often cited rabbis in the Talmud.
In the Talmud, the title Rav generally precedes the names of Babylonian Amoraim; Rabbi generally precedes the names of ordained scholars in the Land of Israel whether Tannaim or Amoraim. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the Talmud, Rav or Rab (used alone) is a common name for the first Amora, Abba Arika , who established the Sura Academy and, using the Mishnah ...