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Elijah ben Mordecai (Hebrew: אליהו בן מרדכי, romanized: Eliyahu ben Mordekhai) was an 11th-century payyeṭan, possibly a native of Italy. Of his poetic...

Mordecai (/ˈmɔːrdɪkaɪ, mɔːrdɪˈkeɪaɪ/; also Mordechai; Hebrew: מָרְדֳּכַי, Modern: Mŏrdoḵay, Tiberian: Mārdoḵay, IPA: [moʁdeˈχaj]) is one of the main personalities...

Elijah (/ɪˈlaɪdʒə/ il-EYE-jə; Hebrew: אֵלִיָּהוּ, romanized: ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias /eːˈlias/) was a prophet and...

Mordecai ben Eliezer Comtino (Hebrew: מרדכי כומטיאנו; lived at Adrianople and Constantinople; died in the latter city between 1485 and 1490) was a Talmudist...

Mordecai ben Nissan the Elder (Heb. מרדכי בן ניסן הזקן, Mordechai ben Nissan ha-Zaken) was a Karaite Jewish scholar who lived at Krasny Ostrów, Poland...

principal teacher was Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg; he was also taught by Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil, Ephraim ben Nathan, Abraham ben Baruch (Meir of Rothenburg's...

Constantinople Solomon ben Jeroham, exegete and controversialist Yefet ben Ali, Babylonian commentator on the Bible Aaron ben Elijah of Nicomedia (1328/9–1369)...

the author of a number of ordinances (takanot) at Padua. According to Mordecai Ghirondi, Minz was professor of philosophy at the University of Padua....

Brest-Litovsk, where he married a daughter of Elijah Lipschütz and continued his studies under Rabbi Mordecai Guenzburg and Rabbi Ẓevi Hirsch. Abraham represented...

her. His grand vizier Haman is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian Mordecai because of his refusal to bow before him; bowing in front of another person...

Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil (died 1295) was a French tosafist, son of the Talmudist Elijah of Tours. In Talmudic literature he is designated by the abbreviations...

containing novellæ on six Talmudic tractates, was published by his grandson Elijah ben Wolf Spira (Fürth, 1768). His manuscript works, including commentaries...

Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein (Ba'al ha-Pardes) (1708 – June 26, 1775) was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno. At first he refused to become a rabbi...

Sherira Gaon, Hai Gaon, Nissim Gaon, Alfasi, Maimonides, Elijah ben Menahem, Gershom ben Judah, Jacob of Orleans, Jacob of Corbeil, Joseph Kara, Joseph...

Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...

charismatic figures, includes Moses, Elijah (see chapter 14), ... (the First Temple was destroyed), Menahem ben Hezekiah (who was born on the very day...

sea. Afterwards he was visited by either the Voice of God or the prophet Elijah, who told him that he would be rewarded with the birth of a noble son "who...

Eliezer (Lazer) ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512 – December 13, 1585) (Hebrew: אליעזר בן אליהו אשכנזי) was a Talmudist, rabbi, physician, and many-sided scholar...

Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא‎ ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע‎; Arabic: إبراهيم...

Elijah ben Moses Bashyazi of Adrianople or Elijah Bašyazi (in Hebrew: אליהו בן משה בן מנחם; c. 1420 in Adrianople – 1490 in Adrianople) was a Karaite...