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Rosh Yeshivas
Rosh yeshiva or Rosh Hayeshiva (, plural, pl. , '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and ''halakha'' (Jewish law). The general role of the rosh yeshiva is to oversee the Talmudic studies and halakha, practical matters. The rosh yeshiva will often give the highest ''Shiur (Torah), shiur'' (class) and is also the one to decide whether to grant permission for students to undertake classes for rabbinical ordination, known as ''semicha''. The term is a compound word, compound of the Hebrew words ''rosh'' ("head") and ''yeshiva'' (a school of religious Jewish education). The rosh yeshiva is required to have a comprehensive knowledge of the Talmud and the ability to analyse and present new perspectives, called ''chidushim'' (wikt:novellae, novellae) verbally and often in print. In some institutions, such as YU's Rabbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plural
In many languages, a plural (sometimes list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated as pl., pl, , or ), is one of the values of the grammatical number, grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the default quantity represented by that noun. This default quantity is most commonly one (a form that represents this default quantity of one is said to be of ''singular'' number). Therefore, plurals most typically denote two or more of something, although they may also denote fractional, zero or negative amounts. An example of a plural is the English word ''boys'', which corresponds to the singular ''boy''. Words of other types, such as verbs, adjectives and pronouns, also frequently have distinct plural forms, which are used in agreement (linguistics), agreement with the number of their associated nouns. Some languages also have a dual (grammatical number), dual (denoting exactly two of something) or other systems of number categories. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talmudic Academies In Babylonia
The Talmudic academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Halakha during the Geonic era (from c. 589 to 1038 CE; Hebrew dates: 4349 AM to 4798 AM) in what is called "Babylonia" in Jewish sources. This term is neither geopolitically, nor geographically identical with the ancient empires of Babylonia, since the Jewish focus of interest has to do with the Jewish religious academies, which were mainly situated in an area between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and primarily between Pumbedita (modern Fallujah, a town west of Baghdad), and Sura, a town farther south down the Euphrates. At the time this area was part of the region known as Asōristān (under the Sasanian Empire) or Iraq (under the Muslim caliphate until the 11th century). The key work of these academies was the compilation of the Babylonian Talmud, started by Rav Ashi and Ravina, two leaders of the Babylonian Jewish community, around t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Ades
Yaakov Hai Zion Ades (; February 24, 1898 – July 19, 1963), also spelled Adas or Adess, was a Sephardi Hakham, Rosh Yeshiva, and Rabbinical High Court judge. As rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, he raised thousands of students, including Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel; Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef; and Rabbi Yehuda Hakohen Rabin, Chief Rabbi of Bukharan Jewry in Israel. Family and early life Ades' parents were Rabbi Avraham Haim Ades (1848–1925) and Tzalha, daughter of Rabbi Moshe Swed, Rav of Aleppo. In Aleppo, his father was regarded as a great Hakham, kabbalist, author, and teacher of future Sephardic Torah leaders such as Rabbi Yosef Yedid Halevi, Rabbi Ezra Chamawi, Rabbi Yaakov Katzin, Rabbi Shlomo Laniado, and Rabbi Ezra Attiya. Upon his parents' aliyah to Israel in 1896, his father helped found Rechovot Hanahar, a yeshiva for kabbalists in the Bukharim quarter, and served on the beit din of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the Europe, European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic connotations. Its eastern boundary is marked by the Ural Mountains, and its western boundary is defined in various ways. Narrow definitions, in which Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe are counted as separate regions, include Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. In contrast, broader definitions include Moldova and Romania, but also some or all of the Balkans, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, and the Visegrád Group, Visegrád group. The region represents a significant part of Culture of Europe, European culture; the main socio-cultural characteristics of Eastern Europe have historically largely been defined by the traditions of the Slavs, as well as by the influence of Eastern Christianity as it developed through the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Another definition was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holocaust
The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz concentration camp#Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka extermination camp, Treblinka, Belzec extermination camp, Belzec, Sobibor extermination camp, Sobibor, and Chełmno extermination camp, Chełmno in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term ''Holocaust'' is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of Victims of Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's Gush Dan, largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine (region), Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the History of ancient Israel and Judah, kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kook (other)
Kook or KOOK may refer to: People * Kook (surname) * Kook, a slave prominent in the 1811 German Coast Uprising * Kook (surfer), a term for a wanna-be surfer of limited skill Media * KYKK (FM), a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Junction, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KOOK from 1998 to 2018 * KOOK-TV, a television station now known as KTVQ * Kook TV, a Saraiki language Saraiki ( ', ; also spelt Siraiki, or Seraiki) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Lahnda group. "The existence of Lahnda as a separate language has long been recognised under various names such as Jatki, Multani, Hindki or Hindko and Western Pan ... TV Channel from Pakistan * ''Kooks'', a 1988–1991 magazine and a 1994 book by Donna Kossy Entertainment * ''KOOK'' (TV series), a hit music programme on BBC Persian TV * The Kooks, formed 2004, a British band * The Kooks (Sweden), a band formed in 1998 * ''K.O.O.K.'', an album by German rock band Tocotronic * "Kooks" (song), a 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotler
Kotler is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aharon Kotler (1892–1962), Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva * Malkiel Kotler (born 1951), Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva * Oded Kotler (born 1937), Israeli actor and theater director * Oshrat Kotler (born 1965), Israeli journalist, television news presenter, and author *Philip Kotler Philip Kotler (born May 27, 1931) is an American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus; the S. C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University ( ... (born 1931), American marketing author, consultant, and professor emeritus * Robert Kotler (born 1942), American plastic surgeon * Shlomo Nosson Kotler (1856–c. 1920), Orthodox posek and rosh yeshiva * Shneur Kotler (1918–1982), Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva See also * Kottler (other) * Cotler {{surname, Kotler Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feinstein
Feinstein, Finestein (, , , "Fajnsztajn", "Fajnsztejn" in Polish spelling) or anglicized as Finestone, meaning "fine stone", that is gemstone, is a compound surname of German and Yiddish origin, similar to names like Goldstein or Rubinstein which is relatively wide spread among Ashkenazi Jews. It may refer to: People with the name Feinstein * Aaron Feinstein (fl. 1903–1910), Estonian chess player * Alan Feinstein (philanthropist) (born 1931), American philanthropist * Alvan Feinstein (1925–2001), American epidemiologist * Andrew Feinstein (born 1964), South African politician * Aryeh Löb Feinstein (1821–1903), Russian Jewish scholar * Charles Feinstein (1932–2004), British economic historian * Daniel Isaac Feinstein (born 1930), birth name of Swiss artist and author Daniel Spoerri * Dianne Feinstein (1933–2023), American politician and US Senator from California * Dovid Feinstein (1929–2020), American Orthodox rabbi, son of Moshe Feinstein * Elaine Feinstei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finkel
Finkel, Finckel or Finkle is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alan Finkel (born 1953), Australia's Chief Scientist * Aryeh Finkel (1931–2016), rosh yeshiva of the Brachfeld branch of the Mir yeshiva * Benjamin Finkel (1865–1947), American mathematician and educator * Binyomin Beinush Finkel ( (1911–1990), rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1965–1990 * Caroline Finkel, British historian * Edwin Finckel (1917–2001), American jazz performer, arranger and song composer * Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1879) (1879–1965), rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Poland and in Jerusalem from 1917–1965 * Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (born 1965), current rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem * Eliyahu Boruch Finkel (1947–2008), a lecturer at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem * Frank Finkel (1854–1930), American who claimed to have been the only survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn * Frederick C. Finkle (1865–1949), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soloveitchik
Soloveitchik ( ) (also Soloveichik) is a surname. The name is a diminutive form of the Russian word соловей, "nightingale", since the Soloveitchiks are a family of 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 * Bar Soloveychik (born 2000), Israeli swimmer * Berel Soloveitchik (1915–1981) * Chaim Soloveitchik (1853–1918) * Eliyahu Soloveitchik (Elijah Zevi) (1805–1881) * Haym Soloveitchik (born 1937), American rabbi * Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993), American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. * Max Soloveichik (1883-1957), Lithuanian-Jewish Zionist activist, journalist, and a politician * Meir Soloveichik (born 1977), American * Moshe Soloveichik (1879–1941) * Moshe Soloveitchik (Zürich) (1914-1995) * Meshulam Dovid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
