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    Yechezkel ben Yehuda HaLevi Landau (8 October 1713 – 29 April 1793) was an influential authority in halakha (Jewish law). He is best known for the work...
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    its most famous bearer was Yechezkel Landau, an 18th-century talmudist and halakhist and the chief rabbi of Prague. Landau in der Pfalz is twinned with:...
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  • Issachar Berend Lehmann Avraham Bromberg Max Letteris Joseph ibn Migash Yechezkel Landau Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin Luis de Torres Abraham Fraenkel Shmuel...
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  • Landau (born 1946), Israeli art museum curator Uzi Landau (born 1943), Israeli politician William Landau (1924–2017), American neurologist Yechezkel Landau...
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    forbade anyone except his successors from going into the attic. Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, a successor of Rabbi Loew, reportedly wanted to go up the steps to...
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    died within 30 days of birth, the next oldest is required to fast. Yechezkel Landau maintains that this only applies if the oldest child had been born...
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  • Ben-Yehuda (born 1934), Israeli Olympic gymnast Yechezkel Landau or Yechezkel ben Yehuda HaLevi Landau (1713–1793), an influential authority in halakha...
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    limited to Hasidism but also was applied to non-Hasidic rabbis such as Yechezkel Landau of Prague and the Gaon of Vilna. The Son or Grandson of the Tzaddik...
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    Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah). His teachers were Rabbi Yechezkel Landau of Prague and later Moses Mendelssohn of Berlin. Baruch Jeitteles was...
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  • Moses Mendelssohn. He studied in Prague for four years under Rabbi Yechezkel Landau and Rabbi Joseph Liebermann. He was then offered a position as rabbi...
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  • née Fulda. Among her ancestors was a noted scholar in halakha rabbi Yechezkel Landau. In 1915 she married philosopher Siegfried Marck [de] and moved to...
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    ha-Choshen and Avnei Millu'im, Netivoth ha-Mishpat, the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau (Dagul Mervavah), Rabbis Akiva Eger, Moses Sofer, and Chaim Joseph...
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  • ha-Kohen (1621–1662), Shach Avraham Gombiner (1633–1683), Magen Avraham Yechezkel Landau (1713–1793), Noda Bihudah Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), Gra Shneur Zalman...
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    momentous incident in Jewish history of the period, involving both Yechezkel Landau and the Vilna Gaon, and may be credited with having crushed the lingering...
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  • (Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist Elimelech of Lizhensk...
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    Commentary on the Talmud Penei Yehoshua. He was a contemporary of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, Prague's Chief Rabbi and author of the fundamental Responsae Noda...
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  • another son, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Landau, served as rabbi of Khust. Rabbi Yitzchak Meir's son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Landau, also served as a rabbi, for a...
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    Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushat Levi), Samuel Eidels (Maharsha) and Yechezkel Landau , was born in Yarmolintsky on Aug. 19, 1877, and received semicha from...
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  • Issachar Berend Lehmann Avraham Bromberg Max Letteris Joseph ibn Migash Yechezkel Landau Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin Luis de Torres Chaim Herzog Avraham Gombiner...
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    Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary, geographer (b. 1718) April 29 Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi, Talmudist (b. 1713) John Michell, English scientist...
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    New York. Tziyun le-Nefesh Chayah (abbreviated to Tzelach), by rabbi Yechezkel Landau of Prague (1713–1793). Chidushei u'Biurei Ha'Gra l'Maseches Shabbos...
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    (1797–1863) [pl], Polish writer Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher Yechezkel Landau, rabbi Max Margules, meteorologist Fabius Mieses (1824–1898), writer...
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  • limited to Hasidism but also was applied to non-Hasidic rabbis such as Yechezkel Landau of Prague and the Gaon of Vilna. The Son or Grandson of the Tzaddik...
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    Igros Moshe of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the Noda B'Yehudah of Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, She'eilot U'teshuvot Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Beis...
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  • voiced by Rav Chaim's predecessors such as the Vilna Gaon and Rav Yechezkel Landau. Norman Lamm described its structure: The Nefesh ha-Hayyim consists...
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    there is an aversion to it. The great 18th-century authority Rabbi Yechezkel Landau after a study concluded although "hunting would not be considered cruelty...
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  • the kavanot of Shalom Sharabi. Some claim he was a reincarnation of Yechezkel Landau. Fatiyah was famous in Baghdad and later Jerusalem for being the uncontested...
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  • for the position: the Rabbi of Prague Yechezkel Landau, the Rabbi of Berlin Zebi Hirsch and Bernstein. Landau was the top choice for the position, but...
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  • B'Yehuda (Known in Judah), in which the 18th-century religious authority Yechezkel Landau said: "I emphatically declare that in all laws contained in the Jewish...
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  • Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar (d. 1764) 1713 – Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and author (d. 1793) 1715 – Michel Benoist, French scientist...
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