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    Abraham ibn Zimra (French: Abraham Benzamiro) was a Spanish rabbi, physician and diplomat who fled to Morocco following the Spanish Inquisition. Descended...
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  • David ben Solomon ibn (Abi) Zimra (Hebrew: ר׳ דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה אִבְּן אָבִי זִמְרָא) (1479–1573) also called Radbaz (רַדְבָּ"ז) after the initials...
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  • rabbi, descendant of Yosef Maimon Haim Ibn Attar Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan Abraham ibn Zimra Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur Yaakov Israel Ifargan Zion Levy...
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    Samuel Morell (2004). Studies in the Judicial Methodology of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra. University Press of America. p. 309. ISBN 0-7618-2707-2. Marvin J....
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  • Eyalet, where he received his Talmudic education from David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra and Israel de Curial. During the lifetime of his teachers, Ashkenazi...
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  • Cairo, Egypt. There he was taken into the house of the Radbaz (David ibn Abi Zimra), an immigrant who had attained to a high communal position. An avid...
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  • Egypt. A student of the illustrious Radbaz (Rabbi David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra), he is considered the last Chief Rabbi of Egypt to hold sway over the...
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    detached from the ground beneath. The 16th-century rabbi David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra said there was a cave under the Dome of the Rock called the "Well of...
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  • Levi ibn Habib (c. 1480 – c. 1545), also known by the acronym HaRaLBaCh, was Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem from 1525 until his death. Under King Manuel of...
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  • "Aaron" is correct, but that it is a different Aaron HaLevi. David ibn Abi Zimra (Metzudat David (1556)) attributes it to a certain "Rabbi Barukh", without...
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    a charge often leveled at them in later centuries. Rabbi and scholar Abraham ibn Daud wrote in 1161: "A tradition exists with the [Jewish] community of...
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    Jews". In the 16th century, the Chief Rabbi of Egypt, David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (also called Radbaz, ca.1479–1573), proclaimed that in terms of halakha...
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  • ordained by him. David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra of the Egyptian rabbinate—ruled simultaneously in Jerusalem succeeding ibn Habib. In 1575, Moshe Trani (b...
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  • Nahmanides (Ramban, 1194–1270), Rabbi Levi Ibn Chaviv (the Ralbach, c. 1480 – c. 1545), Rabbi David ibn abi Zimra (the Radvaz, 1479–1573), and Rabbi Avrohom...
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  • Capsali. He also used some of the Responsa of Maimonides and David Ibn Abi Zimra. In his later life, Sambari became very interested in Kabbalah, which...
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  • Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, in one day in Egypt, a great congregation of Karaites became Rabbinical Jews during the time of the Nagid Rabbi Abraham Maimonides...
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    1609) or Louis Cappel (d. 1658) or Johannes Drusius (d. 1616). David ibn abi Zimra (d. 1573) held that one can follow the Zohar only when it does not conflict...
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    Rabbis; and they say they are related to the tribe of Dan. Rabbi David ibn Zimra of Egypt (1479–1573), writing similarly, held the Ethiopian Jewish community...
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    collective, ed. Abraham ibn Akra, Meharere Nemarim Joseph ibn Verga, She'erit Yosef Isaac Campanton, Darche ha-Talmud David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, Kelale...
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    teachers, including the leading rabbinic scholar David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra. Luria showed himself a diligent student of rabbinical literature and...
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  • Azulai [he] in part five of David ibn Zimra's responsa (Livorno, 1818). Some of his responsa are found also in Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw's "Shibbole ha-Leḳeṭ"...
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  • Hirsch Samuel Levy (1741–1775) Gedalia Levin [da] (1778–1793) Abraham Gedalia (1793–1827) Abraham Wolff (1828–1891) David Simonsen (1892–1902, 1919–1920) Tobias...
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  • Kabbalist and primary disciple of Rabbi Isaac Luria David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (Radbaz) (c. 1479 or c. 1487 – 1573), 15th/16th century Halakhist, Posek...
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    to remain director of the Diskin Orphanage, the position was unfilled. Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi of Jaffa until 1914, became Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem...
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    in Safed. His kabbalistic teachings attracted the attention of David ibn Abu Zimra. In accordance with his wish, Saragossi was buried adjacent to the tomb...
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  • service continues with Yishtabach) A piyyut "Kol beru'e ma'alah" by Solomon ibn Gabirol On the Sabbath and Festivals, Psalm 34 is added. On special Sabbaths...
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    Vayeira (category Abraham)
    Genesis 21:33 reports his grandfather Abraham had planted there. Rabbi Joḥanan, on the authority of Rabbi Jose ben Zimra, asked what Genesis 22:1 means by...
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    the Foundation Stone, for the dome is very large." David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra was convinced (c. 1570) that "under the dome [on the Temple Mount] –...
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  • Rabbi, posek, commentator on the Mishnah, and Paytan David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, (1479–1573) also called Radbaz, born in Spain, was a leading posek...
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    visited in Safed by the great Egyptian scholars of his day, Rabbi David ibn Abi Zimra and Rabbi Yaakov Castro. He came to be regarded as the leader of the...
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