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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...

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:...

Lehmann Avraham Bromberg Max Letteris Joseph ibn Migash Zerahiah Ha-Levi Yechezkel Landau Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin Luis de Torres Abraham Fraenkel Shmuel...

Landau (born 1946), Israeli art museum curator Uzi Landau (born 1943), Israeli politician William Landau (1924–2017), American neurologist Yechezkel Landau...

(1797–1863) [pl], Polish writer Nachman Krochmal, Jewish philosopher Yechezkel Landau, rabbi Max Margules, meteorologist Fabius Mieses (1824–1898), writer...

Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah). His teachers were Rabbi Yechezkel Landau of Prague and later Moses Mendelssohn of Berlin. Baruch Jeitteles was...

Ben-Yehuda (born 1934), Israeli Olympic gymnast Yechezkel Landau or Yechezkel ben Yehuda HaLevi Landau (1713–1793), an influential authority in halakha...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Avraham Tzvi Ashkenazi (1668-1718), Chacham Tzvi Jacob Emden (1797-1776) Yechezkel Landau (1713–1793), Noda Bihudah Vilna Gaon (1720–1797), Gra Shneur Zalman...

Degel HaTorah History of the Jews in Lithuania Schisms among the Jews Yechezkel Landau Garfinkle, Adam (1999-12-07). Politics and Society in Modern Israel:...

(Maggid), Eastern European mystic, primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov Yechezkel Landau (Noda Bihudah, 1713–1793), Posek and Talmudist Elimelech of Lizhensk...

scrolls with extra letters are passul (unfit for ritual use). Rabbi Yechezkel Landau, however, defends the custom, stating that punctuation such as inverted...

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...

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...

culture. Yisroel Hopsztajn (Hapstein) Mayer Kirshenblatt, painter Yechezkel Landau, rabbi of Prague Peter Litvin, musician, a descendant of Ruhlzalski...