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The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel.He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary ...
Eleazar ben Simeon. Eleazar b. Shimon (or Eleazar ben Shimon or R. Eleazar son of R. Shimon; Hebrew: אלעזר ברבי שמעון, lit. Eleazar beRabbi [son of Rabbi] Shimon, or רבי אלעזר בן שמעון , lit. Rabbi Eleazar ben [son of] Shimon) was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation, contemporary of R. Judah ha-Nasi .
Simeon ben Gamliel (I) ( Hebrew: שמעון בן גמליאל or רשב"ג הראשון; c. 10 BC – 70 AD) was a Tanna sage and leader of the Jewish people. He served as nasi of the Great Sanhedrin at Jerusalem during the outbreak of the First Jewish–Roman War, succeeding his father in the same office after his father's death in 50 AD and ...
His father was rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, a renowned Talmudic scholar and authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law. [21] His mother was Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson ( née Yanovski ). He was named after the third Chabad rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn , the Tzemach Tzedek , from whom he was a direct patrilineal descendant.
Samson Raphael Hirsch ( Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a ...
Shimon (Simon) Schwab was an Orthodox rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States. Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the yeshivas of Lithuania , he was rabbi in Ichenhausen , Bavaria , after immigration to the United States in Baltimore , and from 1958 until his death at Khal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, Manhattan .
Little is known about him. When Hillel died, Shimon may have taken over his place as the Nasi of the Sanhedrin, as is implied by a passage in the Talmud. [1] Simeon was the father of Gamaliel I, and grandfather of Simeon ben Gamaliel, [2] who may have been his namesake. Some Christian writers identify him with the Simeon who blessed the infant ...
Kalonymos family. Kalonymos or Kalonymus ( Hebrew: קָלוֹנִימוּס Qālōnīmūs) is a prominent Jewish family who lived in Italy, mostly in Lucca and in Rome, which, after the settlement at Mainz and Speyer of several of its members, took during many generations a leading part in the development of Jewish learning in Germany.