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1. Isaac Ben Ḥayyim Of Volozhin: Russian Talmudist; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna; died at Ivenitz, government of Minsk, June 16, 1849. Isaac was a distinguished Talmudist, owing to which fact he succeeded his father as headof the yeshibah of Volozhin. In 1844 he was ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
2. Ḥayyim Ben Isaac Of Volozhin (Ḥayyim Volozhiner): Russian rabbi and educator; born at Volozhin, government of Wilna, Jan., 1749; died there June 14, 1821. Both he and his elder brother Simḥah (d. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [92%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]

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1. Volozhin: Russian town in the government of Wilna; at the present time (1905) it belongs to Prince Tishkewitz. As in most other Lithuanian towns, the Jews constitute the greater part of the population. Jews settled there about the middle of the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [68%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
2. Ḥayyim Ben Isaac Reizes: Head of the yeshibah at Lemberg; born 1687; martyred May 13, 1728. ayyim and his brother Joshua were thrown into prison on the eve of Passover, March 24, 1728, as the result of being falsely denounced by a Jewish convert ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [67%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Ḥayyut, Isaac Ben Jacob: Polish rabbi; died at Skala, near Lemberg, Sept. He was descended from an old Provençal family which first settled in Bohemia, and was the grandson of R. He became rabbi of Skala late in life, and remained there until his ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [58%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
4. Abraham Ben Isaac Ḥayyot: He is the author of "Holek Tamim" (He Who Walks Perfect), explaining the laws of the Pentateuch after the fourfold method of interpretation known as, that is, perush ("literal explanation"), remez ("allegorical"), derush ("homiletical"), and sod ("mystical") (Cracow, 1634). (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [58%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Isaac Ben Isaac: French tosafist of the second half of the thirteenth century; mentioned in Tos. b; identical, according to Gross and Zunz, with Isaac of Chinon, whose glosses are found in Shiṭṭah Meḳubbeẓet to Naz. He is also referred to in Solomoṇ ben ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
6. Isaac Ben Ḥayyim Ben Abraham Ha-Kohen: Italian exegete; lived successively at Bologna, Jesi, Recanati, and Rome, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was the author of the following works: (1) a commentary on the Song of Songs, on Lamentations, and on the Sayings of the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. Jacob Ben Ḥayyim Ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah: Masorite and printer; born about 1470 at Tunis (hence sometimes called Tunisi); died before 1538. He left his native country in consequence of the persecutions that broke out there at the beginning of the sixteenth century. After residing at Rome ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
8. Mussafia, Ḥayyim Isaac: Talmudist; born at Jerusalem 1760; died at Spalato, Dalmatia, June 10, 1837. He studied chiefly under David Pardo of Sarajevo, Bosnia, the author of numerousTalmudic works; and he so rapidly progressed in his studies that he was recognized as a ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Cantarini, Isaac Ḥayyim (Vita), (Also Called Raphael Ben Jacob Isaac Ha-Kohen): Italian poet, writer, physician, and rabbi; born Feb., 1644, at Padua; died there June 8, 1723. He studied Hebrew and the Talmud with Solomon Marini, author of the "Tiḳḳun 'Olam," and with the poet Moses Catalano. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
10. Algazi, Ḥayyim Isaac: Author of the books: "Derek Eẓ ha-Ḥayyim" (The Way of the Tree of Life), "'En Yamin" (The Right Eye), "Sha'ar Yehudah" (The Gate of Judah); all published at Salonica, 1822. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Frosoloni, Isaac Ḥayyim: Italian poet of the eighteenth century; born at Sienna; died at Leghorn 1794. On the completion of his Hebrew and secular studies at Sienna he went to Leghorn, where he became a member of the yeshibah. He formed an intimate ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
12. Bardach, Israel Isaac Ben Ḥayyim Moses: Grammarian; lived in Lithuania at the end of the eighteenth century. He was the author of "Ṭa'ame Torah" (The Accents of the Law), which forms the second part of a treatise of his on grammar. This work was published ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [55%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
13. Ḥayyim (Joshua), Pheibel Ben Israel, Of Tarnigrod: He wrote a geography of Palestine, in Hebrew, entitled "Ḳaẓwe Areẓ" (Zolkiev, 1772). In the second edition (Grodno, 1818) it bore the title "Ereẓ Yisrael li-Gebuloteha Sabib. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [53%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
14. Ḥayyim (Lit. "Life"): A common prænomen among the Jews, especially during the Middle Ages. In its Latin form it occurs on the Hebrew mosaic of Kafr Kenna as, i., and in the Jewish catacombs of Venosa (also ; Ascoli, "Inscrizioni," No. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [53%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
15. Isaiah Menahem Ben Isaac (Also Known As Rabbi Mendel, Rabbi Abigdors): At first chief of the yeshibah of Szezebrscyn, government of Lublin, Poland, he was later called to the rabbinate of Vladimir, Volhynia. There he was one of the rabbis who signed the protest against the shameful selling of the rabbinate ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [53%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
16. Ẓemaḥ Ben Ḥayyim: Gaon of Sura from 889 to 895. He was the stepbrother and successor of Nahshon ben Zadok, and has become known especially through the reply which he madeto the inquiry of the Kairwanites regarding Eldad ha-Dani. This responsum, which ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [52%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
17. Ḥayyim Ben Israel: Spanish philosopher and author; lived in Toledo about 1272-77; a descendant of the Israeli family and a relative of Isaac Israeli, author of the astronomical work "Yesod 'Olam. He wrote a treatise on paradise, which exists in manuscript. Bibliography ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [52%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
18. Ḥayyim Ben Bezaleel: German Talmudist; died at Friedberg on the Shabu'ot festival, 1588. He was the eldest of the four sons of Bezaleel ben Ḥayyim, and spent his youth at Posen, the native city of the family. He and Moses Isserles studied ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [52%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]