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Sages of Israel

Teachers and students

The teacher–student relationships recorded in the biographies on this site, grouped by school. People without a link do not yet have an article of their own.

From the Second Temple to Yavne

The Talmud counts Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai among the eighty disciples of Hillel and Shammai.

  1. Hillel the Elder
  2. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkaifounded the academy of Yavne

From Rabbi Akiva to the Mishnah

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai was a disciple of Rabbi Akiva, and Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi studied with several of Rabbi Akiva’s main disciples, among them Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.

  1. Rabbi Akiva
  2. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
  3. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasieditor of the Mishnah

The Kabbalah of Safed

Alkabetz was Cordovero’s teacher; Vital studied with Cordovero and later became the Arizal’s main disciple. A later chronicler says the Arizal studied “for a very short time” with Cordovero.

  1. Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz
  2. Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak)
  3. The Arizal
  4. Rabbi Chaim Vitalauthor of Shaarei Kedusha

From Rabbi Moshe Cordovero (the Ramak):

  • Rabbi Eliyahu de Vidasauthor of Reshit Chochmah

The sages of Catalonia

Rabbeinu Yonah was a disciple of Rabbi Shlomo of Montpellier and the teacher of the Rashba; Rabbeinu Bachya ben Asher was a disciple of the Rashba.

  1. Rabbi Shlomo of Montpellier
  2. Rabbeinu Yonah of Gerona
  3. Rabbi Shlomo ibn Aderet (the Rashba)
  4. Rabbeinu Bachya ben Asher

The school of Rashi

The Rashbam was Rashi’s grandson and disciple, and taught his brother Rabbeinu Tam.

  1. Rashi
  2. The Rashbam
  3. Rabbeinu Tam

Lithuania: from Vilna to mussar

Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin was a disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant was a disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, and the teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter.

  1. The Vilna Gaon
  2. Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin
  3. Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant
  4. Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

Hasidism

The Maggid of Mezritch was the disciple and successor of the Baal Shem Tov; among his disciples were Rabbi Elimelech, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and Rabbi Shneur Zalman.

  1. The Baal Shem Tov
  2. The Maggid of Mezritch

From The Maggid of Mezritch:

Ecstatic and theosophical Kabbalah

Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla studied with Rabbi Abraham Abulafia around 1272–1274.

  1. Rabbi Abraham Abulafia
  2. Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla