Rabbi Nathan HaKohen Adler (Frankfurt 1741 – Frankfurt 1800) he won the admiration of Rabbi Chaim Yosef Dovid Azulai (The Chida), who had visited Frankfurt when Nathan was 11 years old. As a child, Nathan attended the Yeshiva of the Penei Yehoshua, who was at that time rabbi at Frankfurt, but his principal teacher was…
Rabbi Ahron ben Yosef HaKohen (Also know as Ahron Sargado) served as Gaon of Pumbeditha for a duration of 16 years from 4704 (943 CE) until his passing in 4719 (959 CE), he carried the title ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב. A student of Rav Mevasser Gaon, the Even Ezra in his Torah commentary quotes a…
Rabbi Ahron ben Chayim Avrohom HaKohen Perachya lived at Thessaloniki and functioned there as a Rabbi and Posek. A disciple of Rav Chisdai HaKohen (the author of תורת חסד), Rabbi Ahron often quotes his mentor in his widely known halachic work פרח מטה אהרן. This work was published by his son Ezriel in Amsterdam after…
Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig HaKohen Katzman (23 Tishrei, 5690 (apprx) – 18 Adar, 5758). Biography . Born in Poltave (presumed) he spent his younger years in Malachovke, a suburb outside Moscow which was a hub for Chassidim who went underground from the Yevsektzie & the KGB for keeping Judaism. As a young boy he lost both…
Shmuel HaKohen ben Chofni Gaon (also spelled Samuel ha-Kohen ben Hofni (? – 25 Menachem-Av HC 4773), leader of the Sura yeshiva and extensive writer of halacha literature. Family Rav Shmuel’s father, Chofni ben Kohen-Tzedek also served as gaon, as did his uncle Nechemya ben Kohen-Tzedek. Rav Shmuel’s son Yisroel, took over his father’s post…
Rabbi Mordechai Meir HaKoHen Bryski, a torah -educator of hundreds of students over a span of 20-plus-years tenure as a Rebbe in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in New York, Rabbi Bryski was born in the shtetl of Chmielnik, Poland, in 1923, one of six children born to Reb Chaim Elazar HaKohen, a widely respected “Chassidishe Yid” with…