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Feivel Meltzer
Feivel or Fievel () is a Yiddish-language masculine given name, often paired with Shraga. It is a diminutive form of the name Feivush. Notable people with the name include: *Yechezkel Feivel (1755–1833), rabbi and writer *Feivel Gruberger (1927–2013), American rabbi *Shraga Feivel Cohen (died 2022), American rabbi *Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), rabbi *Shraga Feivel Paretzky (1917–1992), rabbi *Feivel Schiffer (1809–1871), Polish poet and writer *Shraga Feivel Zimmerman (living), rabbi {{given name Yiddish masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiddish
Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.Aram Yardumian"A Tale of Two Hypotheses: Genetics and the Ethnogenesis of Ashkenazi Jewry".University of Pennsylvania. 2013. Yiddish is primarily written in the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Eighty-five percent of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, Solomon Birnbaum, ''Grammatik der jiddischen Sprache'' (4., erg. Aufl., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shraga
Shraga (Talmudic Aramaic: ) is a Jewish given name (meaning "candle" in Talmudic Aramaic) and may refer to: *Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the 17th century *Shraga Bar (born 1948), former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between 1968 and 1972 *Shraga Feivish Hager the ''rebbe'' of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, ''dayan'' ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator *Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath *Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, the ABD (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead *Shraga Goren (1898–1972), Israeli politician *Shraga Simmons (born 1961), influential rabbi involved in kiruv (Jewish outreach) *Shraga Weil (1918–2009), Israeli painter *Shraga Weinberg (born 1966), Israeli wheelchair tennis player *Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, (1813–1898), the eldest son of the Divrei Chaim, Rabbi Chaim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yechezkel Feivel
Yechezkel Feivel ben Ze'ev Wolf (; 1755–1833) was the Maggid in Vilnius in the early 19th century and the author of several books, including ''Toldos Adam'', a hagiography of Rabbi Zalman of Vilna, the famed brother of Chaim of Volozhin and student of the Vilna Gaon. Biography Ezekiel Feivel was born in Polangen in 1755. Early in life he filled the position of rabbi in his native town, and later at Deretschin. He then traveled as a ''maggid'' through Germany and Hungary, and, after residing for some time at Breslau, returned to Polangen and devoted himself to literary work. In 1811 he was appointed rabbi to the community of Vilna, which position he filled until his death. Reception and Analysis of ''Toldos Adam'' Feivel's ''magnum opus'', the biography ''Toldos Adam'', achieved singular success in the rabbinic world. It is one of the few biographies which is cited in halachic works, including those of such leading scholars as Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margoliot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feivel Gruberger
Philip S. Berg (original name Feivel Gruberger, he, שרגא פייבל; August 20, 1927 – September 16, 2013) was an American rabbi and dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre organization. Berg was a great populariser of Ashlagian Kabbalah. Having written a number of books on the subject of Kabbalah, Berg expanded its access to a greater audience than traditionally permitted, one which included secular Jews, non-Jews and women. Berg initially aimed at returning alienated Jews to their heritage through the teachings of Yehuda Ashlag, however he later adopted a more universalistic approach. There is disagreement about whether Berg's teachings, as relayed through the Kabbalah Centre, have sufficient grounds and/or genuine authority according to ''halakha'' (Jewish law), as they include some dogmas and translations differing markedly from those of more-traditional Kabbalists. Some Jewish scholars emphatically reject such teachings, deeming them as foreign to both the Kabbalah in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shraga Feivel Cohen
Shraga (Talmudic Aramaic: ) is a Jewish given name (meaning "candle" in Talmudic Aramaic) and may refer to: *Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the 17th century *Shraga Bar (born 1948), former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between 1968 and 1972 *Shraga Feivish Hager the ''rebbe'' of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, ''dayan'' ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator *Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath *Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, the ABD (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead *Shraga Goren (1898–1972), Israeli politician *Shraga Simmons (born 1961), influential rabbi involved in kiruv (Jewish outreach) *Shraga Weil (1918–2009), Israeli painter *Shraga Weinberg (born 1966), Israeli wheelchair tennis player *Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, (1813–1898), the eldest son of the Divrei Chaim, Rabbi Chaim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886 – 7 September 1948) was a leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah U'Mesorah, an outreach and educational organization. He is also known for having taken the reins in 1921 and building Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, a major early day Brooklyn-based Yeshiva. His policies were often informed by Torah im Derech Eretz. In the words of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein: "Were it not for him, there would be no Torah study and no Fear of Heaven at all in America." Biography Mendlowitz was born in Világ (today Svetlice, Slovakia), in the Austria-Hungarian Empire, a small town near the border of Poland, to a Hasidic family: Moshe and Bas-Sheva Mendlowitz. Shraga Feivel pronounced his family name ''Mendelovich''. His mother died when he was ten. He was twelve when the family relocated to Mezőlaborc (now sk, Medzilaborce), where he studied "with Reb Aaron, ''dayyan'' of Mezo-Laboretz, who considered him his top pupil." Having received ''se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shraga Feivel Paretzky
Shraga Feivel Paretzky (1917–1992) (he: שרגא פייבל פארעצקי), also known as Rabbi Philip Paretzky, was a Rosh Yeshiva and Dean of Admissions at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in Manhattan, New York, a school of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Paretzky was born in Razanka, in the Lida District, in what is now Belarus, but was then Poland, in 1917. From the age of ten, he studied at the Yeshiva in Białystok and then advanced to the Yeshiva in Kobrin. There he developed a close relationship with Rabbi Shlomo Mattis, a principal student of Rabbi Shimon Shkop. While still of a relatively young age, Rabbi Paretzky went to learn in Raduń Yeshiva, where he became a very close student of its Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Mendel Zaks, son-in-law of the Chofetz Chaim. Before emigrating from Europe, Rabbi Paretzky briefly studied at the Novardok yeshiva of Bialystk, and was granted Semiha - ordination - by the noted Rabbi Shimon Shkop. In 1938, Rabbi Paretzky came to Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feivel Schiffer
Feivel Schiffer (; 1809–1871) was a Polish ''maskilic'' poet and writer. He was born in Lasezow and raised in the district of Zamość. He lived successively in Josefov, Brody, and Szebrszyn before settling in Warsaw in 1835, where he opened a private school for Jewish children. Schiffer's first major publication was ''Ḥatzerot ha-Shir'', an epic poem on the life of the patriarch Jacob (Warsaw, 1840). In 1843 he published ''Matta Leshem'', an idyll on agriculture and country life in poetic prose. Schiffer advocated for a transition to agriculture among Polish Jews, and helped settle Jews on land near Zamość with the financial backing of Prince Ivan Paskevich. As an expression of gratitude, Schiffer published ''Davar Gevorot'' (Warsaw, 1845), a biography of Paskevich in Hebrew. He later published ''Toledot Napoleon'', a biography of Napoléon Bonaparte from a pro-Russian point of view, in two parts (Warsaw, 1849 and 1857). The work was one of the first books in Hebrew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shraga Feivel Zimmerman
Shraga Feivel Halevy Zimmerman is the ''av beis din'' of the Federation of Synagogues in London. He accepted the position on the 30th of June 2019, but took office in January 2020. Rabbi Zimmerman succeeded Dayan Lichtenstein as head of the organisation's religious court. He took up this appointment following 11 and-a-half years serving as rabbi and ''av beis din'' of the Jewish community in Gateshead, United Kingdom, where he succeeded Bezalel Rakow, who died in 2003. Prior to that, he served as rabbi to Khal Adath Jeshurun, the Haredi German Ashkenazic community in Monsey, New York. Overview Zimmerman's induction in Gateshead was attended by several Haredi rabbis in England, including Rabbi Ephraim Padwa of UOHC and Menachem Mendel Schneebalg of Manchester's Machzikei Hadath community. One of the changes he made was to allow the opening of the community's "first kosher restaurant" with the proviso that "to avoid unsupervised interaction between the sexes" there are separa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
