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...

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...

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...

thousand. Among his numerous students were Yom Tov of Seville and Bahya ben Asher. A manuscript purporting to be a certificate of indebtedness, dated...

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...

the Shittah Mekubetzet, the Maharal, Samuel Ben Isaac Jaffe Ashkenazi, Jonathan Eybeschutz, Yisroel ben Shmuel of Shklov and students of the Vilna Gaon...

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...

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...

include, from Medieval times, the mystical leaders Nahmanides and Bahya ben Asher; from the 16th-century Levi ibn Habib, and from the mystical school...

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...

Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא, romanized: ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic:...

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,...

Judah, and the friend of Bahya ben Asher, who mentions him in his Pentateuch commentary. He is also mentioned by Mordechai ben Hillel (d. 1310); and was...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

1st-century rabbinic sage Nehunya ben HaKanah (a contemporary of Yochanan ben Zakai) because it begins with the words, "R. Nehunya ben HaKanah said". It is also...

first Lilith and she brings them up. A 1340 Kabbalistic treatise by Bahya ben Asher states Naamah is one of the mates of the archangel Samael, along with...

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...

commentary of Asher ben Jehiel. He also wrote commentaries on the writings of Isaac Alfasi and certain works of Nahmanides. "YOM-ṬOB BEN ABRAHAM ISHBILI...

Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎, romanized: Yəhūḏā ben Šəmūʾēl halLēvī; Arabic: أبو الحسن يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Abū-l-Ḥasan Yahūḏa...

Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...

Isaac of Acco Pupil of Nahmanides. Israel and Spain 13th-14th century Bahya ben Asher (Rabbeinu Behaye) Kabbalistic classic commentary on the Torah. Spain...

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...

Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל;‎ 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...

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...

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...

13th–14th century talmudist, grammarian, and philosopher. (1280—1345) Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, 13th-14th century commentator, Talmudist and Kabbalist...

system by the doctrine of the negative attributes, already accepted by Bahya ibn Paquda. and by Judah ha-Levi from the older Arabic theology. According...