Hai ben Sherira: Quick Facts

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Meir Of Rothenburg

Jewish rabbi and scholar

Gershom ben Judah

Jewish scholar

Solomon Schechter

American rabbi and scholar

Jacob ben Meir Tam

French Judaic scholar

Solomon ben Abraham Adret

Spanish rabbi

Amram bar Sheshna

Jewish scholar

Samuel of Nehardea

Babylonian-Jewish scholar

St. Paul the Apostle

Christian Apostle

Isaiah

Hebrew prophet

Jeremiah

Hebrew prophet

Hillel

Jewish scholar

Ezekiel

Hebrew prophet

Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms

German rabbi

Judah ha-Nasi

Jewish scholar

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo

Jewish scholar

Amos

Hebrew prophet

Ishmael ben Elisha

Jewish scholar

Nehemiah

Jewish leader

Shimon bar Yochai

Jewish scholar

Jonathan Eybeschütz

Polish rabbi and scholar