Bernard (Dov) Revel (Hebrew: ברנרד רבל; September 17, 1885 – December 2, 1940) was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar.

Revel was born in Prienai, a neighboring town of Kaunas, then part of the Russian Empire, now in Lithuania.

His father was his first teacher, and when Nachum Revel died in 1896 he was buried next to his close friend Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor - indicative of his knowledge and stature.

Thereafter, the young scholar earned a Russian high school diploma, apparently through independent study.

However, even while serving as an assistant to his brother-in-law Solomon in the petroleum business, and amassing his own fortune, Rabbi Revel's primary occupation continued to be his Torah study.

In 1915, Harry Fischel, on the board of directors of the newly merged RIETS and Etz Chaim Yeshiva, asked Revel to come back East and head the institution.

Rabbi Revel took up the position and was appointed the first president and Rosh yeshiva of the newly reorganized institution.

Often speaking of the, “harmonious union of culture and spirituality,” he believed that knowledge of the liberal arts would broaden one's understanding of Torah.

He wrote: "Yeshiva aims at unity, at the creation of a synthesis between the Jewish conception of life, our spiritual and moral teaching and ideals, and the present-day humanities, the scientific conscience and spirit to help develop the complete harmonious Jewish personality, once again to enrich and bless our lives, to revitalize the true spirit and genius of historic Judaism."

Earlier scholars like Simha Pinksker had aimed to show that Karaites "were the source of all intellectual achievement of medieval Judaism."

According to this school of thought, the Massorah, with its beginnings of grammatical and biblical exegesis, belongs to the Karaites; the Rabbanites were merely imitators.

[1] U.S. engraver Kenneth Kipperman, who designed the stamp, was suspended for including a tiny Star of David, invisible to the naked eye, in Revel's beard.