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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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    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, Guidance to...
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    thousand. Among his numerous students were Yom Tov of Seville and Bahya ben Asher. A manuscript purporting to be a certificate of indebtedness, dated...
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    Asher ben Jehiel (Hebrew: אשר בן יחיאל, or Asher ben Yechiel, sometimes Asheri) (1250 or 1259 – 1327) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for...
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  • the Shittah Mekubetzet, the Maharal, Samuel Ben Isaac Jaffe Ashkenazi, Jonathan Eybeschutz, Yisroel ben Shmuel of Shklov and students of the Vilna Gaon...
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  • commentary on the Torah, cited by many later Biblical commentators, chiefly Bahya ben Asher. This commentary is to some extent directed against the Karaites.[citation...
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  • 13th–14th century talmudist, grammarian, and philosopher. (1280—1345) Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, 13th-14th century commentator, Talmudist and Kabbalist...
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    including those of Rashi, Nachmanides, Hezekiah ben Manoah, Abraham Saba, Isaac Karo, and Bahya ben Asher. Sol Liptzin describes the Tseno Ureno as "a fascinating...
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    World to Come which begins at the seventh millennium. Rabbeinu Bahya (Bahya ben Asher) wrote that the seventh millennium will follow the Messiah and the...
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  • include, from Medieval times, the mystical leaders Nahmanides and Bahya ben Asher; from the 16th-century Levi ibn Habib, and from the mystical school...
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  • Shaagas Aryeh Bahya ben Asher–a 14th-century Aragonese rabbi and Kabbalist Haim Ben-Asher–a member of the Knesset from 1949 to 1955 Jacob ben Asher–a 14th-century...
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    Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270–1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Yaakov ben haRosh, was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority. He is often...
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    Rashi (redirect from Solomon ben Isaac)
    Yitzchaki (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי‎; Latin: Salomon Isaacides; French: Salomon ben Isaac de Troyes; c. 1040 – 13 July 1105) was a French rabbi who authored...
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  • Isaac of Acco Pupil of Nahmanides. Israel and Spain 13th-14th century Bahya ben Asher (Rabbeinu Behaye) Kabbalistic classic commentary on the Torah. Spain...
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  • Jerusalem Talmud; Abraham ben Nathan of Lunel, author of HaManhig; Meir ben Isaac of Carcassonne, author of Sefer haEzer; and Asher ben Meshullam of Lunel,...
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    הכיפורים, Megadim 8:9-34 (1989) הקטורת, נדב ואביהוא ויום הכיפורים Bahya ben Asher, Kad Hakemach, p. 122b "Taanit 4:8". Archived from the original on...
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    However, most commentators, such as Targum Onkelos, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Bahya ben Asher, Samuel David Luzzatto, Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin and Moisè Tedeschi...
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    reincarnation are Kabbalists like Nahmanides (the Ramban) and Rabbenu Bahya ben Asher, Levi ibn Habib (the Ralbah), Shelomoh Alkabez, Moses Cordovero, Moses...
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    notably Zohar and the teachings of Isaac Luria as passed down through Hayyim ben Joseph Vital. However, even this qualification does little to limit the scope...
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  • Ashkenazi diaspora are students of his." As early as the 14th century, Asher ben Jehiel wrote that Rabbeinu Gershom's writings were "such permanent fixtures...
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    CE), who claimed it was a Tannaitic work recording the teachings of Simeon ben Yochai (c. 100 CE). This claim is universally rejected by modern scholars...
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  • 1200s Nahmanides Abraham Abulafia Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla Moses de Leon Menahem Recanati 1300s Bahya ben Asher 1400s 1500s Meir ibn Gabbai Joseph Karo...
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    Maimonides (redirect from Moussa Ben Maimon)
    the years. Later codes of Jewish law, e.g. Arba'ah Turim by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher and Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Yosef Karo, draw heavily on Mishneh Torah:...
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    things". Nachmanides (13th century) gives "explainer of secrets", while Bahya ben Asher (13th–14th century) gives "the one who reveals secrets". The reason...
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    that the souls of the wicked would be punished with annihilation. Bahya ben Asher understands second death as referring to the death of a soul after...
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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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    where Haninah ben Ahi R. Joshua maintained that the word is "holy". An alternative view (held by Onkelos, Bahya ben Asher, Jacob ben Asher, Sforno, and...
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    his healing and was not afraid. In Rabbeinu Bahya, a commentary on the Torah written by Rabbi Bahya ben Asher (1255–1340), the Camp of Ephraim, situated...
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    Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 – July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari...
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    to appear on the cover of the Paolo Riccio's Latin translation of Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla's Gates of Light. The diagram only had 17 paths and, at...
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