Yechiel ben Joseph of Paris or Jehiel of Paris, called Sire Vives in French (Judeo-French: שיר ויויש) and Vivus Meldensis ("Vives of Meaux") in Latin...
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Ages, Paris was a centre of Jewish learning with famous Talmudic scholars, such as Yechiel of Paris who took part in the Disputation of Paris between...
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Jewish views on Jesus (redirect from Jewish view of Jesus)
Yechiel of Paris to defend at the Disputation of Paris in 1240. Yechiel's primary defence was that the Yeshu in rabbinic literature was a disciple of...
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Nicholas Donin (category People from Paris)
excommunicated from the ghetto of Paris by Rabbi Yechiel of Paris. While the precise reason for his excommunication is not known, Yechiel himself claims that it...
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of interest also characterized the French monarchy which chiefly considered the Jews as a potential source of income before 1230. Rabbis Yechiel of Paris...
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Yeshu (category Criticism of Christianity)
divinity of Jesus. In the Disputation of Paris, Yechiel of Paris conceded that one of the Yeshu stories in the Talmud referred to Jesus of Nazareth,...
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headed a yeshiva together with Yechiel of Paris who had emigrated to Acre in 1260, along with his son and a large group of followers. Upon arrival, he had...
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Kol Nidre (section Form of the ritual)
objections chiefly on this prayer. As early as 1240 in the Disputation of Paris, Yechiel of Paris was obliged to defend Kol Nidrei against these charges. The Russian...
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important school of tosafists, in which were trained, among others, Yechiel of Paris (Sir Leon's successor), Isaac ben Moses of Vienna (author of Or Zarua),...
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including Asher ben Jehiel (Responsa 3:15), the Tosafists (b. Sotah 10a), Yechiel of Paris (cited Birkei Yosef, Oraḥ Hayyim 85:8), Simeon ben Zemah Duran, Yaakov...
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David Kimhi (category French people of Spanish-Jewish descent)
Occitania, then under the rule of Philip II of France. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Joseph Kimhi and the brother of Moses Kimhi, both also biblical...
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Asher ben Jehiel (redirect from Asher ben Yechiel)
יחיאל, or Asher ben Yechiel, sometimes Asheri) (1250 or 1259 – 1327) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is...
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Talmud (redirect from Burning of the Talmud)
Disputation of Paris, which took place in 1240 at the court of Louis IX of France, where four rabbis, including Yechiel of Paris and Moses ben Jacob of Coucy...
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Isaac Abarbanel (section Works of Hope)
notions when defending the behavior of actual Blacks living in Portugal." The Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel in Paris, France, was named in his memory. Jewish...
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Gershom ben Judah (redirect from Gershom of Mainz)
commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah ("Our teacher Gershom the light of the exile"), was a famous...
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Meaux (category Communes of Seine-et-Marne)
Supérieure Yechiel of Paris, rabbi and Tosafist, originally from Meaux John de Cheam died and is buried in Meaux. Philippe de Vitry, bishop of Meaux as of 1351...
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Blood libel (redirect from List of blood libels against Jews)
name of the "very learned" proselyte, but it may have been Nicholas Donin of La Rochelle, who, in 1240, had a disputation on the Talmud with Yechiel of Paris...
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teachers being Yechiel of Paris, Samuel ben Solomon of Falaise, and Samuel of Évreux, witnessing the burning of the Talmud on 17 June 1242, in Paris. He then...
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court. Louis insisted on the burning of the Talmud and other Jewish books, but Blanche promised Rabbi Yechiel of Paris, who spoke for the Jews, that he and...
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the basis for later halakhic decisions. Their son Yom Tov later moved to Paris and headed a yeshiva there, together with his brothers Shimshon and Eliezer...
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Maimonides (redirect from Teaching of Moses Maimonides)
Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent...
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discussed Halakha before the elders of Paris, among them Rabbi Yehuda Bar Tov. This implies that Rabbi Judah lived in Paris. He is cited in Tosafot in many...
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Hasdai Crescas (category Philosophers of Judaism)
(teacher of Jewish law). Along with Maimonides ("Rambam"), Gersonides ("Ralbag"), and Joseph Albo, he is known as one of the major practitioners of the rationalist...
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Jacob ben Asher (category Exponents of Jewish law)
then in the Kingdom of Castile, in 1340. He was the third son of the Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel (known as the "Rosh"), a Rabbi of the Holy Roman Empire...
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Shlomo ibn Aderet (category Authors of works on the Talmud)
Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist...
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Aharon HaLevi (redirect from Aaron Halevi of Barcelona)
his father Joseph haLevi, son of Benveniste haLevi, son of Rabbi Joseph haLevi, who was the son of Rabbi Zerachiah haLevi of Girona Baal Hamaor. Ra'AH's...
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(9th ed.). Bialik Institute. p. 124. Schur, Yechiel Y. (2014-08-27), "When the Grave was Searched, the Bones of the Deceased were not Found': Corporeal Revenants...
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burning of the Talmud, and four of the most distinguished rabbis of France: Yechiel of Paris, Moses of Coucy, Judah of Melun, and Samuel ben Solomon of Château-Thierry...
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included Nahmanides, Yechiel of Paris with several hundred of his students, Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and 300 of his followers, and...
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Isaac Alfasi (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2024)
Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of halakha - Jewish law). He is best known for his work of halakha, the legal code Sefer Ha-halachot, considered...
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