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Rosh HaYeshiva
Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; 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 practical matters. The rosh yeshiva will often give the highest '' 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 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'' ( novellae) verbally and often in print. In some institutions, such as YU's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plural
The plural (sometimes abbreviated pl., pl, or ), in many languages, is one of the values of the 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 ''cats'', which corresponds to the singular ''cat''. Words of other types, such as verbs, adjectives and pronouns, also frequently have distinct plural forms, which are used in agreement with the number of their associated nouns. Some languages also have a dual (denoting exactly two of something) or other systems of number categories. However, in English and many other languages, singular and plural are the only grammatical numbers, exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaakov Ades
Yaakov Hai Zion Ades ( he, יעקב חי ציון עדס, 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, an ... [...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. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russia, which spans roughly 40% of the continent's landmass while accounting for approximately 15% of its total population."The Balkans" , ''Global Perspectives: A Remote Sensing and World Issues Site''. Wheeling Jesuit University/Center for Educational Technologies, 1999–2002. It represents a significant part of Culture of Europe, European culture; the main socio-cultural characteristics of Eastern Europe have historically been defined by the traditions of Slavs and Greeks, as well as by the influence of Eastern Christianity as it developed through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and 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 in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland. Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933. After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March, which gave Hitler dictatorial plenary powers, the government began isolating Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kook (other)
Kook or KOOK may refer to: People * Kook, a synonym for crank (person), a pejorative term for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most others consider to be ludicrously false * Kook (surname) * Kook, a slave prominent in the 1811 German Coast Uprising * Kook (surfer), a term for a wanna-be surfer of limited skill *Rav Kook, a Zionist rabbi 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 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 Tocotronic is a German rock band founded in 1993 (see 1993 in music). Similar to Blumfeld or Die St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotler
Kotler is a Jewish surname and may refer to : *Rabbi Aharon Kotler was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States of America, where he built one of the first and largest yeshivas in the US. *Rabbi Malkiel Kotler is one of the Roshei Yeshiva, or Deans, of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey. *Oded Kotler (born 5 May 1937) is an Israeli actor and theater director. *Oshrat Kotler (born 25 July 1965) is an Israeli journalist and fiction author. *Philip Kotler (born 27 May 1931 in Chicago) is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. *Robert Kotler, FACS, is an American plastic surgeon. *Rabbi Shlomo Nosson Kotler (1856-c. 1920) was an Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. *Rabbi Shneur Kotler (1918 - 1982) was the son of the famed Talmudic scholar Rabbi Aharon Kotler. See also * Kottler (other) * Cotler Cotler is a surname. Notable pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feinstein
Feinstein, Finestein ( yi, פֿײַנשטײַן, he, פיינשטיין, russian: Файнштейн, "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 (b. 1931), American philanthropist * Alvan Feinstein (1925–2001), American epidemiologist * Andrew Feinstein an ANC Member of Parliament and former African National Congress leader of South African Parliament's public accounts watchdog, Scopa *Charles Feinstein (b. 1932), British economic historian * Daniel Isaac Feinstein (b. 1930), birth name of French artist and author Daniel Spoerri * Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933), American politician (a senior United States senator from California and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finkel
Finkel or Finckel is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alan Finkel, Australia's Chief Scientist * Aryeh Finkel, rosh yeshiva of the Brachfeld branch of the Mir yeshiva * Benjamin Finkel, American mathematician and educator * Binyomin Beinush Finkel, rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1965–1990 * Caroline Finkel, British historian * Edwin Finckel, jazz composer * Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Poland and in Jerusalem from 1917–1965 * Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, current rosh yeshiva of the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem * Eliyahu Boruch Finkel, a lecturer at the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem * Frank Finkel, American who claimed to have been the only survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn * Fyvush Finkel, American actor * George Finkel, TV sports producer and director * Irving Finkel, British philologist and Assyriologist * Howard Finkel, professional wrestling announcer * Jon Finkel, American Magic: The Gathering champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soloveitchik
Soloveitchik ( he, סולובייצ'יק yi, סאָלאָווייטשיק) (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 * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
