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Also Known As Hai
Born 939
Died March 23, 1038 (aged 99)
Subjects Of Study Talmud
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
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Isaiah
Isaiah
Hebrew prophet
Rembrandt: Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
Jeremiah
Hebrew prophet
Hillel
Jewish scholar
Ezekiel
Ezekiel
Hebrew prophet
Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms
German rabbi
Judah ha-Nasi
Jewish scholar
Joseph ben Ephraim Karo
Jewish scholar
Amos
Amos
Hebrew prophet
Ishmael ben Elisha
Jewish scholar
Nehemiah
Nehemiah
Jewish leader
Lag ba-ʿOmer
Shimon bar Yochai
Jewish scholar
Jonathan Eybeschütz
Polish rabbi and scholar