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One of those places is this mishna, or in other words, there was at least one generation between the two Rabbis Yosei and Antignos. …

Hi and welcome to Mi Yodeya! In this case it's Rabbi Yochanan bar Napacha, and the way to tell is simple: Rabbi Yochanan speaks here in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who lived a few generations …

In the book "Hachassidut" by Rabbi Ahron Marcus there's a drawing of the Chacham Tzvi: This seems to be based on this painting or this one. In all three, he's drawn pointing at his bookmark, which, f …

How did he replace all other rabbis? Did he incorporate other's sources or only his own tradition? … And the Rabbis say the opposite: Yehuda ben Tabbai was deputy Nasi and Shimon ben Shataḥ was the Nasi." …

According to this message on JewishGen, a state rabbi was a requirement in Russia. To hold the position, candidates had to known Russian. The state rabbi or "Kazeny Ravin" in Russian had bureaucratic …

Note: I did a quick search in later sources and so far have not seen any mention of such encounters by later rabbis. … There were some rabbis who did bring the Church Fathers in their commentaries, such as the Abarbanel and Shadal. …

There's a little info on this site. I'll translate it into English: Rabbi Chassidah was born in Warsaw in 1910. When he was 14, he and his family made aliyah and settled in Haifa. Eventually he receiv …

The Ramah stated that the translation was done by two rabbis in Venice: Rabbi Matzliach of the Upper Galilee and Rabbi Shlomo Ma'aravi. …

We don't have much sources from the era. It was, after all, the era of the Savoraim, who were mostly focused on editing and redacting the Talmud.1 The following are the earliest sources I was able to …

Rabbi Yitzchak Hertzog zt"l in his short essay (in Hebrew) "למידותיו של חזקיהו מלך יהודה" (On the Traits of Chizkiyahu King of Yehudah), published in the Sinai Jubilee Volume, pp. 27-28 wrote: "כדאי …

Barnett Elzas in his book "The Jews of South Carolina", pg. 219, wrote: "The breaking out of the war [the Civil War] and the removal from the city of many of its members, however, put an end to its p …

I think a community wiki answer would be good for this question. Everyone, feel free to add your book recommendations. Rabbi Akiva: האסופי מנרבתא (The Foundling of Narbata) by Hadassah Klosch - Rabbi …

According to some manuscripts of Shabbat 113b1: "Reish Lakish said: Why is Babylonia called Shinar? It is because all the waters of the Flood were deposited there [ninaru lesham]." It was first disc …

The gemara in Pesachim 3b brings a story in which Rabbi Yehudah ben Bateira discovers that an Aramean non-Jew is eating from the Korban Pesach in Yerushalayim. He tricks him into outing him to the aut …

According to Wikipedia and Encyclopedia.com, Rava's real first name was Abba and "Rava" is a portmanteau of R' Abba. However, both claims are sourceless (Encyclopedia.com refers to Eruvin 54a but that …