derekh
71HA-PO'EL HA-MIZRACHI — HA PO EL HA MIZRACHI, religious pioneering and labor movement in Ereẓ Israel. Religious pioneers who settled in Ereẓ Israel in 1920–21 banded together and in April 1922 founded Ha Po el ha Mizrachi, whose program stated that it aspires to build… …
72HILDESHEIMER, AZRIEL — (Esriel; Israel; 1820–1899), German rabbi, scholar, educator, and leader of Orthodox Jewry. Hildesheimer, who was born in Halberstadt into a family of scholars, received his early education in the local Jewish school, the first in Germany to… …
73HOROWITZ, ISAIAH BEN ABRAHAM HA-LEVI — (called Ha Shelah ha Kadosh, the holy Shelah, from the initials of the title of his major work; 1565?–1630), rabbi, kabbalist, and communal leader. Horowitz was born in Prague, but as a youth he moved to Poland with his father, who was his first… …
74IBN EZRA, ABRAHAM BEN MEIR — (1089–1164), one of the most important Jewish Bible exegetes; also a poet, composer of piyyutim , grammarian, translator, philosopher, astronomer, and astrologer. Exceptionally erudite, he was among the last creative geniuses of the Spanish… …
75JUDAH BEN ASHER — (1270–1349), rabbi and talmudist. Judah was born in Cologne, Germany. His father was asher b. jehiel (the Rosh), in whose yeshivah he studied; jacob b. asher was his brother. Because of his impaired eyesight, from which he suffered all his life,… …
76KAHANA-CARMON, AMALIA — (1926– ), Israeli writer. Amalia Kahana Carmon was born in kibbutz En Ḥarod but lived in Tel Aviv since childhood. She served in the Negev Brigade during the War of Independence and took part in the capture of Beersheba. After studying at the… …
77KALLAH — (Heb. כַּלָּה; bride ), one of the minor tractates appended to the end of the fourth order, Nezikin, in the printed texts of the Babylonian Talmud. There are two separate versions of the tractate. The shorter one consists of a single chapter… …
78KAẒIN, RAPHAEL BEN ELIJAH — (1818–1871), rabbi of Baghdad. Kaẓin was born in Aleppo. On the death of his father he left his birthplace, visiting Ereẓ Israel and Persia, and in 1846 went to Baghdad as a self appointed emissary. He was an outstanding scholar and accomplished… …
79LANDAU, ISAAC ELIJAH BEN SAMUEL — (1801–1876), Lithuanian preacher and biblical commentator. Landau was born in Vilna. He married the daughter of the wealthy and well known Zadok Marshalkovitch of Dubno and was relieved of financial cares, and although he did occasionally engage… …
80LAWAT, ABRAHAM DAVID BEN JUDAH LEIB — (1835–1890), ḥasidic rabbi and author in the Ukraine. From his youth Abraham David was attracted to Chabad Ḥasidism , being among the closest followers of menahem mendel schneersohn , author of Ẓemah Ẓedek. On the initiative of his teacher, he… …
