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Joseph Soloveitchik
The preeminent figure of American Modern Orthodoxy, the man known as 'the Rav' ordained thousands of rabbis.
Early Medieval Halachic Texts
In the early Middle Ages, leading scholars across Europe and North Africa produced different genres of legal writings.
Rabbi Isaac Alfasi: Rif
A legal code for the Jews of medieval North Africa and Spain.
Moshe (Moses) Isserles: Rema
Rema's glosses emended and enhanced the Shulchan Aruch.
Sephardic Halachic Texts of the Middle Ages
As Jewish communities grew throughout the Muslim world, they developed their own rabbinical schools and scholars.
Jerusalem Contested
The Holy City changed hands many times before the War of Independence.