• Rabbi Meir ben Baruch HaLevi of Vienna (died 1406), also known as Maharam Sal or Maharam Fulda, was an Ashkenazi rabbi, one of the most important in central...
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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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    Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa...
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    Jacob ben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and...
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    Yisrael Meir Kagan suggested that the commentary on Menachot was by Isaiah di Trani, while Israel Joshua Trunk argued that the author was Solomon ben Abraham...
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    "Isaac Ben Jacob Alfasi". dbs.anumuseum.org.il. Retrieved 2022-01-25. "Isaac Alfasi". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2024-06-21. "Rabbi Yitzchak Ben Baruch Albalia...
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    Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא, romanized: ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic:...
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  • including Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi, Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg, Samson of Coucy and Eleazar of Worms. He was among the teachers of Meir of Rothenburg....
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  • someone else. Born in Metz in 960, Gershom was a student of Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir (Sir Léontin), who was one of the greatest authorities of his time. Having...
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  • name was Baruch, and they remained in Mérida." RABaD was born in Provence, France, and died at Posquières. He was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac of...
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    considered important in the history of modern thought for his deep influence on Baruch Spinoza. After leaving Barcelona, he held the administrative position of...
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  • ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn (Hebrew acronym ראבי״ה‎ Ra'avyah; 1140–1225) was a Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asher ben Jehiel...
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    2979/aleph.16.1.61. Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007): "Ibn Daud, Abraham Ben David Halevi" HORN, DARA (2022). PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS: reports from a haunted present...
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  • Gersonides (redirect from Levi ben Gerson)
    Number), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1090–1167). In 1342, Gersonides wrote On Sines, Chords and Arcs...
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  • the Rosh, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, left Germany but was captured and imprisoned. The Rosh raised a ransom for his release, but Rabbi Meir refused it, for...
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  • Eleazar of Worms, author of the Roqeaḥ; Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, author of Or Zarua; and Baruch ben Samuel of Mainz, author of Sefer ha-Ḥokmah. Eleazar...
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    Nachmanides (redirect from Moses Ben Nahman)
    Gerondi (Rabbeinu Yonah). Among his teachers in Talmud were Judah ben Yakar and Nathan ben Meïr of Trinquetaille, and he is said to have been instructed in...
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  • & Meir ben Samuel Isaac ben Meir (RIvaM) Samuel ben Meir (RaShbaM) Solomon ben Meir Jacob ben Meir (Rabbeinu Tam) Margolioth family Hannah bat Meir &...
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  • Moses Isserles, known as "the Rema" or "the Rama" (Hebrew: רמ"א). Meir ben Todros HaLevi Abulafia (/ˈmeɪ.ər həˈleɪvi ˌæbuːˈlæfiə/ MAY-ər hə-LAY-vee AB-oo-LAF-ee-ə;...
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  • developed a strong friendship with the poet Judah Halevi, and was an important influence in Halevi's early poetic works. Ibn Ezra belonged to one of the...
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    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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    Maimonides (redirect from Moussa Ben Maimon)
    none like Moses." Maimonides and his wife, the daughter of Mishael ben Yeshayahu Halevi, had one child who survived into adulthood, Abraham Maimonides, who...
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  • מוורמייזא - also מגרמייזא of Garmiza or Garmisa) (c. 1176–1238), or Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus, also sometimes known today as Eleazar Rokeach ("Eleazar the...
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  • of his ancestors named Meir (Hebrew: מאיר), and that is how he is now known. Some have suggested that the reference is to Meir Detrancatleich, a student...
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    an activist he was an admirer and supporter of Rav Meir Kahane, when very few people were. Halevi, Ezra (January 10, 2006). "Sanhedrin Recognizes Council...
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  • Yehuda ben Meir, also known as Yehudah Leontin, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE. Yehuda was the principal...
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  • Moses ben Meir of Ferrara was a 13th-century Italian tosafist from Ferrara, Italy. He was a contemporary of Eleazar ben Samuel and Isaiah ben Mali. He...
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  • Joseph ibn Migash or Joseph ben Meir HaLevi ibn Migash or Yosef Ibn Meir Ha-Levi Ibn Megas or José ben Meir ibn Megas (early 1077 – c. 1141) (Hebrew:...
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    Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270 - 1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential Medieval rabbinic...
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  • Israel Meir (1999). "הספרות הפרשנית לתלמוד". Vol. 1, p. 123 Cohen, ed., Sefer ha-Qabbalah, Eng. pp. 77-78, Heb. pp. 57-58. Ta-Shma, Israel Meir (1999)...
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