Shlomo ibn Aderet (redirect from Solomon Ben Abraham Adret)
prevailing, particularly in France, which was represented by Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim, who treated most important religious questions with the utmost...
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Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן־דָּוִד הַלֵּוִי אִבְּן דָּאוּד, romanized: ʾAvrāhām ben-Dāvīd halLēvī ʾībən Dāʾūd; Arabic: ابراهيم بن داود, romanized: ʾIbrāhīm...
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Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic: إبراهيم...
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Rabbi Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim (Hebrew: לוי בן אברהם בן חיים מווילפראנש) was a French encyclopedist; champion of the liberal party in Provence in the...
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Isaac Abarbanel (redirect from Isaac ben Judah Abrabanel)
Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
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Gersonides (redirect from Levi ben Gerson)
Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew...
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Abraham ben David (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal...
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important were Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Elazar ben Moshe Azikri[1], Samuel Gallico...
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Maimonides (redirect from Moussa Ben Maimon)
appointed Nagid in 1195. A work known as "Megillat Zutta" was written by Abraham ben Hillel, who writes a scathing description of Sar Shalom while praising...
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Hasdai Crescas (redirect from Hasdai Ben Abraham Crescas)
Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
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Isaac Alfasi (redirect from Isaac ben Jacob Ha-Kohen)
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...
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Yom Tov of Seville (redirect from Yom-Tob ben Abraham)
Yom Tov ben Abraham of Seville (c. 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly known by the Hebrew acronym Ritva, (Hebrew: ריטב"א) was a...
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commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abraham ibn Ezra. Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Retrieved 2010-04-20...
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Judah Halevi (redirect from Judah ben Samuel ha-Levi Abulhassan)
Jewish Studies: 390–391. JSTOR 23588346. Brody, Hayyim. l.c., ii., No. 14. p. 100. Geiger, Abraham. Ha-Levi, Judah. Divan Des Jehuda Halevi (l.c. ed.). p...
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Obadiah of Bertinoro (redirect from Obadiah ben abraham)
Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro (Hebrew: ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; c. 1445 – c. 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century...
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publication now in the public domain: Louis Ginzberg (1901–1906). "Abraham ben Joseph ha-Levi". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia....
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Nachmanides (redirect from Moses Ben Nahman)
Geonim to be questioned. Called upon, about 1238, for support by Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, who had been excommunicated by supporters of Maimonides...
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Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic...
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Israel Isserlein (redirect from Israel Isserlein ben Petachya Ashkenazi)
Israel Isserlin (ישראל איסרלן; Israel Isserlein ben Petachia; 1390 in Maribor, Duchy of Styria – 1460 in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria) was a Talmudist...
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Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa (בחיי בן אשר אבן חלואה, 1255–1340) was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism, best known as a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He...
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Ha-Eshkol (The Cluster). His teacher was Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi, during whose lifetime Abraham was appointed president (Av Beth Din) of the...
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Spain, where he became rabbi on the recommendation of Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Aderet (RaShBA). Rabbenu Asher's son Judah testified to the fact that...
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Rabbeinu Tam (redirect from Jacob Ben Meir Tam)
Isaac ben Melchizedek of Siponto, maintained a written correspondence with Rabbeinu Tam. Rabbeinu Tam's work is also cited by Rabbi Zerachya HaLevi, a Provençal...
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Isaac the Blind (redirect from Isaac ben Abraham of Posquières)
totally unfounded hypothesis". Isaac was the son of the famous talmudist, Abraham ben David of Posquières (Raavad). The Bahir first appeared in the Middle...
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Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin (Hebrew: יעקב בן משה מולין) (c. 1365 – September 14, 1427) was a Talmudist and posek (authority on Jewish law) best known...
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Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat (920/925 – after 985) (Hebrew: ר׳ דוֹנָש הַלֵּוִי בֵּן לָבְּרָט; Arabic: دناش بن لبراط) was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet...
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Bahya ibn Paquda (redirect from Bahya Ben Joseph Ibn Pakuda)
now known as Rabbeinu Behaye, the other being the Bible commentator Bahya ben Asher. He was the author of the first Jewish system of ethics, written around...
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Aharon ben Joseph haLevi (Hebrew: אהרון הלוי; c. 1235 – c. 1303), known by his Hebrew acronym Ra'AH (רא"ה), was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and...
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Nissim ben Jacob (Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב), also known as Nissim Gaon (Hebrew: רבנו נסים גאון, lit. 'Our teacher Nissim the Gaon'; 990–1062), was a rabbi...
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Eleazar of Worms (redirect from Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms)
as that given in the Kol Bo, in which the work was reproduced. Sefer ha-Ḥayyim, treating of the unity of God, of the soul and its attributes, and of the...
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