Shraga
Shraga (Talmudic Aramaic: שרגא) is a Jewish given name (meaning "candle" in Talmudic Aramaic) and may refer to:
- Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, Polish rabbi and Talmudist of Woydyslaw in the second half of the 17th century
- Shraga Bar (born 1948), former Israeli football defender, who played for the Israel national team between 1968 and 1972
- Shraga Feivish Hager the rebbe of the Kosov Hasidic dynasty, dayan ("rabbinic judge"), and noted orator
- Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (1886–1948), early leader of American Orthodoxy and founder of key institutions such as Torah Vodaath
- Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, the ABD (Town rabbi) of the Jewish community in Gateshead
- Shraga Goren (born 1898), Israeli politician
- Shraga Simmons (born 1961), influential rabbi involved in kiruv (Jewish outreach)
- Shraga Weil (1918–2009), Israeli painter
- Shraga Weinberg (born 1966), Israeli wheelchair tennis player
- Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam, (1813–1898), the eldest son of the Divrei Chaim, Rabbi Chaim Halbertam of Sanz
See also
- Torat Shraga (or Yeshivas Toras Shraga), a post-high school yeshiva in Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, Israel
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