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1. Gabbai: A gabbai (Hebrew: גבאי‎), also known as shamash (שמש, sometimes spelled shamas) or warden (UK, similar to churchwarden) is a beadle or sexton, a person who assists in the running of synagogue services in some way. The role may be undertaken on ... (Religion) [100%] 2023-08-17 [Religious leadership roles]
2. Gabbai: A family the members of which were found in Spain in the fifteenth century, and in Italy and the Levant from the seventeenth onward. Abraham (Ysidro): Ḥakam in Amsterdam, later in Surinam; died before 1757. He wrote a cabalistic poem ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Gabbai: GABBAI gab'-a-i (gabbay, "collector"): One of the chiefs of the Benjamites in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian captivity (Nehemiah 11:8). gab'-a-i (gabbay, "collector"): One of the chiefs of the Benjamites in Jerusalem after ... [100%] 1915-01-01
4. Ruggero Gabbai: Ruggero Gabbai (Wilrijk, 6 August 1964) is an Italian film director and photographer. Ruggero Gabbai was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1964 and grew up in Milan. (Italian film director and photographer) [70%] 2024-04-09 [1964 births] [Living people]...
5. Abraham Gabbai Ysidro: Abraham Gabbay Ysidro or Isidro (died London, 1755) was a Spanish Marrano Sephardi rabbi. In Spain his first wife called Sarah was tried by the Inquisition while he escaped to London and then was hakam in Amsterdam, then Surinam, returning ... [57%] 2023-08-23 [Sephardi rabbis] [Spanish Jews]...
6. Gabbai (Lit. "Receiver"): Tax-collector; in modern usage, treasurer of a synagogue. In Talmudic times the alms of the congregation appear to have been collected by two persons (B. b), but the term "gabbai" seems to have been restricted to publicans or tax ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. Yisroel Meir Gabbai: Yisroel Meir Gabbai is a Breslover Hasid who travels the world to locate, repair and maintain Jewish cemeteries, kevarim (gravesites) and ohels of Torah notables and tzaddiks. He is the founder of Agudas Ohalei Tzadikim. [57%] 2024-01-19 [Living people] [1959 births]...
8. Meir ibn Gabbai: Meir ben Ezekiel ibn Gabbai (in ebraico מאיר בן יחזקאל אבן גבאי) (Spagna, 1480 – XVI secolo) fu un cabalista ebreo vissuto nella Spagna orientale. Nel suo ventisettesimo anno si lamentava di "dover lavorare sodo" per mantenere se stesso e la sua famiglia (cfr. [57%] 2024-09-13
9. Astruc Dés Gabbai, Or Abba Mari Ben Abraham: Provençal scholar; lived at Béziers toward the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth. Nothing is known of his life and his scientific activity. His name was transmitted by his relative, or perhaps by his grandson ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [35%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]