Hillel the Elder

Born: Babylon (today is considered Babil province which is Iraq) Lived about 100 years prior to the destruction of the 2nd temple. Died: Jerusalem. It is told that he lived to be 120 years old.

Choni HaMe'agel

Choni HaMe'agel lived at the time of the Chashmonaim, at the time of Queen Shlomit Alexandra. Exact dates are undetermined, lived about 200 years before the destruction of 2nd temple.

Rabbi Israel Abuhatzeira known as Baba Sali

Rabbi Israel Abou-Hatzira was a Moroccan-born rabbi and kabbalist. The name Abou-Hatzira has become legendary in fact, story and song among wide circles of modern-day Jews. This is due in no small measure to the impact on the Jewish consciousness of the life of the Baba Sali, the "Praying Father" of the Moroccan Jewish community, who made Aliyah to the Land of Israel in the middle of the twentieth century.

Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar – Ohr Hachayim Hakadosh

Rabbi Chaim ben Attar was a Talmudist and kabbalist. He was one of the most prominent rabbis in Morocco.Was born to a well respected and wealthy family. Even as a child he developed extreme telants and it was clear to know he was meant to be a leader.

Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer, also known by the acronym the “Basht”, was the founder of the Chassidic movement. Rabbi Israel was born in Okop, a small village in the Ukraine on the Polish Russian border (Podolia) about 305 years ago.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson – Lubavitcher Rebbe

Menachem Mendel Schneerson known as The Rebbe, was a prominent Hasidic rabbi who was the seventh and last Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He was fifth in a direct paternal line to the third Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.

Rabbi Nachum Ish Gamzu

Nachum Ish Gamzu, was known for his saying Gam zu l'tovah. The Gmara explains that his nickname came from the fact that his reaction to anything that happened to him was always "gam zu l'tovah" )And that is also for the good(.

Rabbi Akiva – The Simple Shepherd

Akiva ben Yosef was one of the greatest Rabbis who ever lived. He was born about 17 years before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. His father Yosef was poor and uneducated, as his father had been before him and his grandfather before that. As a child Akiva received no education. Instead of attending school, the boy helped to support his family by taking care of their sheep.

Hanina Ben Dosa

Rabbi Hanina Ben Dosa was a scholar and miracle-worker, and the pupil of Yochanan ben Zakkai (Berakhot, 34b).

Rabbi Isaac Luria - The Holy Ari

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Jewish mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed. While his direct literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely minute (he only wrote a few poems), his fame led to the school and its entire works being named after him.

Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman (Nachmanides) – “Ramban”

Rabbi Moshe ben Miamon was born in Gerona, where he remained most of his life.Like the Rambam, he was equally distinguished in both Halacha and Hashkafa. Besides the Rambam (Rabbi Moshe ben Miamon), the Ramban was probably the greatest and most influential of the Rishonim.

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Nachman of Breslov, also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Nachman from Uman, or simply as Rebbe Nachman (in local Yiddish Reb Nokhmen Broslever) was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic dynasty.

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki – Rashi

One of the greatest Jewish scholars and commentators of all times, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki. More usually referred to by the acronym “Rashi”, was born in Troyes, France.

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi

Shneur Zalman of Liadi was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first "Rebbe" of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia.  He was the author of many works, and is best known for Shulchan Aruch HaRav.

Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher - Baal HaTurim

Rabbi Yaakov (Jacob), Posek, Chumash commentator and codifier. was the son of Rav Asher ben Yechiel (the 'ROSH') under whom he studied. He was born in Germany and followed his father to Toledo, where he lived in great poverty and devoted his life to Torah.

Rabbi Yeshayahu Halevi Horowitz – SheLaH Hakadosh

Rabbi Yeshayahu Halevi Horowitz was born in Prague, where he served as chief rabbi for many years. His father was Rabbi Avraham Halevi.

Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri

Rabbi Kaduri made amulets said to heal, enhance fertility and bring success. Yitzchak Kaduri, also spelled Kadouri and Kadourie; was a renowned Sephardic Orthodox Haredi rabbi and kabbalist who devoted his life to Torah study and prayer on behalf of the Jewish people.

Rabbi Yochanan Bar Nafcha

Rabbi Yochanan (also known as Rabbi Yochanan bar Nafcha "Rabbi Yochanan son of the blacksmith," Hebrew: יוחנן בר נפחא) was a rabbi in the early era of the Talmud. He was born in Tzipori in the Land of Israel. Rabbi Yochanan did not know his parents

Rabbi Yosef Caro

Yosef Caro (sometimes Joseph Caro) was one of the most significant leaders in Rabbinic Judaism and the author of the Shulchan-Arukh, an authoritative work on Halachah (Jewish law).

Rabbi Yosef Chaim - Ben Ish Chai

Yosef Chaim was a leading Hakham (Sephardic Rabbi), authority on Jewish law (Halakha) and Master Kabbalist. He is best known as author of the work of Halakha Ben Ish Chai ("Son of Man who Lives"), by which title he is also known.

Rabbi Eliezer ben Horkonus

Rabbi Eliezer ben Horkanus, there are references to him as “Rabbi Alexander Hagadol  (the Great)” was one of the great teachers of the period of the Mishna. He was one of the teachers of Rabbi Akiva and lived during the last period of the Second Temple.

Rabbie Judah Ha’Nasi

Rabbi Judah haNasi, (pronounced Yehuda haNasi), known in English as Judah the Prince, was a key leader of the Jewish community of Judea toward the end of the 2nd century CE, during the occupation of the Roman Empire.

Rabbie Meir Baal hanes

Rabbi Meir or Reb Meir Ba'al Ha-Nes (lit. Rabbi Meir Master of the Miracle) was a Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Mishna. He was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the second generation.

RSG - Rabbie Saadya Gaon

Saadya Gaon was born in Fayyûm, died in Baghdad. Theologian, philosopher and rabbi, Saadya's legacy includes a number of philosophical and theological treatises, various rabbinical, mathematical, and grammatical writings, a Hebrew dictionary, liturgical poems and a Jewish prayer book.

Rambam - Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon - Maimonides

Moses Maimonides was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. Although his copious works on Jewish law and ethics were initially met with opposition during his lifetime, he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history.

“Rashba,” Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet

Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet is widely known as the Rashba , the Hebrew acronym of his title and name. He was a disciple of the Ramban and of Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona, and the teacher of the Ritva (Rabbi Yom Tov ibn Asevilli), and of Rabbi Bachya ben Asher.

“Rif” -Rabbi Yitzchak Al-fasi

Rabbi Yitzchak was born in the City of Kal’a in Algeria. He learned Torah in the Yeshiva of Kairuwan under the tutelage of Rabbi Chananel ben Chushiel Gaon. The name of his city became intertwined with his name, “Rif” stands for Rabbi Yitzchak of Fez, or Rabbi Yitzchak al-Fasi.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai - Rashbi

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, also known as “Rashbi”, was a student of Rabbi Akiva, who was the spiritual leader of the Bar Kochva Revolt against Rome. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is one of the most important sages in Jewish history, lived over 1800 years ago.

Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira

Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeirah's father Rabbi Massud was the chief rabbi ofTafilalet province. R' Yaakov Abuhatzeira filled up his father's position after his death. Rabbi Yaacov was a kabbalist renowned for his piety and accustomed to performing miracles.

Rabbi Shalom Sharabi - The RASHASH

Also known as the “Rashash”.Yemenite Jewish Rabbi, Halachist, Chazzan and Kabbalist. He was one of the Jewish world's foremost masters of Kabbalah, Torah, Talmud and Halacha in the 18th Century.