Simhah

Simhah (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה śimḥāʰ; Hebrew pronunciation: [simˈχa], Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈsɪmχə]) is a Hebrew word that means gladness, or joy, and is often used as a given name. Related names include Simha, Simcha, and Simchah. Notable people with the name include:

• Meir Simhah ha-Kohen of Dvinsk (1843–1926), Orthodox Jewish rabbi
• Naḥman ben Simḥah Berlin, Jewish polemnist writer
• Nahman Ben Simhah of Bratslav (1772–1810), the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement
• Simhah Simon ben Abraham Calimani (1699–1784), Venetian rabbi
• Simhah b. Samuel of Speyer (13th century), German rabbi and tosafist
• Simhah ben Samuel of Vitry, (died 1105), French Talmudist of the 11th and 12th centuries
• Simhah Bunem of Przysucha (1765–1827), Grand Rabbi of Peshischa
• Simḥah Isaac Luzki (1716–1766?), Karaite Kabbalist
• Simhah of Rome, Jewish scholar and rabbi who lived in Rome in the last quarter of the thirteenth century AD
• Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born at Tarnopol, Galicia
• Simhah Reuben Edelmann (1821–1892), Russian grammarian and commentator
• Solomon b. Simhah Dob Mandelkern (1846–1902), Ukrainian Jewish poet and author

• Jayasimha (disambiguation)
• Samhah
• Sima Hui

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