• 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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    Ashkenazi Jewry, chiefly based on the works of Yaakov Moelin, Israel Isserlein and Israel Bruna. All editions of the Shulchan Aruch since 1578 include...
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    Arena is a large swimming facility. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Israel Isserlein, (1390–1460), Slovenian and German rabbi Queen Mariana of Spain (1634–1696)...
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    days in Israel. In his treatise known as the Kuzari, he argues that the presence of the God of Israel is most palpable in the Land of Israel, and it is...
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  • Ashkenazi customs differed (based on the works of Yaakov Moelin, Israel Isserlein, and Israel Bruna). The glosses are called ha-Mapah ("the Tablecloth"). His...
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  • Francesco II Acciaioli, last Duke of Athens (murdered by consent) Israel Isserlein, Austrian Jewish scholar (b. 1390) Reginald Pecock, deposed Welsh bishop...
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  • writer of juvenile fantasy novels under the pseudonym Erin Hunter Israel Isserlein (1390–1460), talmudist and halakhist from Austria Leon Isserlis (1881–1966)...
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  • was a German rabbi, a disciple of R. Yaakov Weil and contemporary of Israel Isserlein, whom he frequently consulted. He was successively rabbi at Mainz,...
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    Israel, presented Bertinoro with a site for a yeshibah in Jerusalem, which he founded, centuries after the extinction of the last academy in Israel....
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    ben Moses (c. 1420–1488). Having studied for five years under Rabbi Israel Isserlein, Rabbi Joseph traveled to the Rhine provinces, but returned to his...
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  • mitzvah in immigrating to Israel at this time: "And Rabbeinu Haim would say that now there is no mitzvah to live in the Land of Israel." There are several versions...
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    later authorities" (chiefly based on the works of Yaakov Moelin, Israel Isserlein and Israel Bruna, together with the Franco-German Tosafists) as criteria...
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    Israel, which is named after him. To commemorate the 800th anniversary of his death, Harvard University issued a memorial volume. In 1953, the Israel...
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  • and Spanish Talmudist and Halakhist; author of "Sefer Ha-halachot" Israel Isserlein (Terumat Hadeshen), (1390–1460) 15th-century, the most influential...
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    the children of Israel were permitted to do, for the Scripture says (Leviticus 25:44): "Of them you shall buy, etc.", meaning, "Israel alone is permitted...
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    sometimes fancifully expanded as Rabban Shel YIsrael which means the "Rabbi of Israel", or as Rabbenu SheYichyeh (Our Rabbi, may he live). He may be cited in...
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  • the minhagim collected by Klausner. His responsa are referred to by Israel Isserlein in his "Pesaḳim u-Ketabim" (No. 6).  One or more of the preceding...
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  • Publications. p. 182. OCLC 60850988. Jacobs, Louis (1990). God, Torah, Israel: traditionalism without fundamentalism. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College...
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    Cana'an (west of the Jordan River), although Moses and the Children of Israel had not yet crossed the Jordan at that point in the Biblical narrative....
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  • Ostreicher in Leket Yosher, where he says that his teacher, Rabbi Israel Isserlein would fast on the Thursday of these weeks in a leap year. The custom...
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    allegorical method of interpretation and Christian claims towards the "true Israel" by stressing the superior morality and religiosity of the Jews. His interpretations...
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  • respondents of the fifteenth century were Israel Isserlein and Israel Bruna. The collection of the responsa of Israel Isserlein, "Terumat ha-Deshen", comprises...
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    Gerondi, or "Moses son of Nahman the Gironan"), and died in the Land of Israel about 1270. He was a descendant of Isaac ben Reuben of Barcelona and cousin...
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  • Land of Israel; he published it in 1550–59. Thirty-two authorities, beginning with the Talmud and ending with the works of Rabbi Israel Isserlein (1390–1460...
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  • ha-Nessiah Moses of London Yom Tov of Joigny Berechiah de Nicole Austria Israel Isserlein (Terumat HaDeshen) Isaac of Vienna (Or Zarua) Avigdor Cohen of Vienna...
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  • of the fifteenth century. He was the uncle and chief instructor of Israel Isserlein, who frequently alludes in his works to the decisions and opinions...
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  • ha-Nessiah Moses of London Yom Tov of Joigny Berechiah de Nicole Austria Israel Isserlein (Terumat HaDeshen) Isaac of Vienna (Or Zarua) Avigdor Cohen of Vienna...
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    "Sha'are Dura," § 57; and many other authorities Compare, however, Israel Isserlein, "Terumat haDeshen," No. 94, who declares they belong to the Tosafot...
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    astronomical work written by him in 1180 is favourably noticed by Isaac Israeli the Younger. His philosophical work, al-ʿaqida l-Rafiya (The Sublime Faith)...
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    matter as well as discussion of the halakha practicable only in Land of Israel. Generally the work follows the ordering of the Talmud, but sometimes Talmudic...
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