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    Encyclopædia Britannica article "Nachmanides". Video Lecture on Nachmanides by Dr. Henry Abramson Iggeres HaRamban - Nachmanides's letter to his son Igeres Haramban...
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  • treat them as binding would effectively nullify a biblical commandment. Nachmanides continues to say this command applies in every generation, even during...
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  • Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments") by Maimonides, with a commentary by Nachmanides. Maimonides employs a set of fourteen rules (shorashim) which determine...
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  • Orthodox Judaism. In general, Nachmanides' view is influential in Haredi Judaism, while Maimonides' view—in addition to Nachmanides'—underpins much of Modern...
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  • Jewish scholars who were contemporaries of Jesus, as later pointed out by Nachmanides, who in 1263 observed that Jesus was rejected as the messiah by the rabbis...
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    that have scales and can ignore the portion of the rule about fins. Nachmanides comments that the scales of a kosher fish must be able to be removed...
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    do?" Nachmanides noted that prophetic promises of the Messianic Age, a reign of universal peace and justice had not yet been fulfilled. Nachmanides also...
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    physical idols as seen in the golden calf episode. Other scholars, such as Nachmanides, disagree and maintain that the tabernacle's meaning is not tied in with...
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    670 of the Seleucid era" (i.e., 358–359 CE). Later writers, such as Nachmanides, explained Hai Gaon's words to mean that the entire computed calendar...
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    rabbinic decrees is stipulated by the verse and thou shalt observe, while Nachmanides argued that such severity is unfounded, while accepting such enactments...
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    his biblical exegesis, Bahya took as his model Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (Nachmanides) or Ramban, the teacher of Rabbi Shlomo ibn Aderet, who was the first...
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    Halevi Abraham ibn Daud Joseph ibn Tzaddik Abraham ibn Ezra Maimonides Nachmanides Samuel ibn Tibbon Joseph ben Judah Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides...
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  • father Joseph haLevi and brother Pinchas ben Joseph haLevi, as well as Nachmanides, and was a colleague of Shlomo ben Aderet (1235–1310). He published critical...
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    Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi and even authorities as late as Nachmanides and Maimonides, and earlier mystical texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah...
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    commentaries in similar styles. Among these are the commentaries of Nachmanides (Ramban), Solomon ben Adret (Rashba), Yom Tov of Seville (Ritva) and...
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    However, Nachmanides disagreed, partly because he viewed the seventh law as a positive commandment that was not punishable by death. Instead, Nachmanides said...
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    was also taken for granted, to the extent that biblical commentator Nachmanides (Ramban) quoted several passages from a Peshitta (Syriac version) of...
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  • states until 1260 and the conquest of Levant by the Mamluks in 1291, Nachmanides wrote a letter to his son. It contained the following references to the...
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  • thinkers, such as the Kabbalists Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona and Nachmanides and the earlier Jewish neoplatonic philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron)...
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    refers to the etrog. In modern Hebrew, hadar refers to the genus Citrus. Nachmanides (1194 – c. 1270) suggests that the word was the original Hebrew name...
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  • ramban or रामबाण in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ramban can refer to: Nachmanides (1194 – c. 1270), Catalan rabbi and philosopher also known as RaMBaN...
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    bar Yochai pronounced a curse on anyone teaching this idea. Rashi and Nachmanides followed this. Pseudo-Philo (Biblical Antiquities 3:1–3) may also imply...
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    community in the Land of Israel under Mamluk and Ottoman rule Key events Nachmanides Aliya (1263) Alhambra decree (1492) Manuel I decree (1496) Hebron and...
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  • divine commandments in the Bible, but fewer than 300 applied to his time. Nachmanides found that the number was in dispute and uncertain. The number 613 is...
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    Halevi Abraham ibn Daud Joseph ibn Tzaddik Abraham ibn Ezra Maimonides Nachmanides Samuel ibn Tibbon Joseph ben Judah Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides...
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    community in the Land of Israel under Mamluk and Ottoman rule Key events Nachmanides Aliya (1263) Alhambra decree (1492) Manuel I decree (1496) Hebron and...
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    Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. "Catalonia Pays Homage to Nachmanides". Haaretz. Retrieved 10 January 2024. "The Museum of Jewish History"...
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    somewhere in Upper Mesopotamia. This view was particularly noted by Nachmanides (Ramban). Nevertheless, this interpretation of moledet as meaning "birthplace"...
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    Hagar) is advocated by the Rashbam, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi, and Nachmanides. They were listed as two different people in the genealogies in the Book...
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    Chronicles (1 Chronicles 11:15, 14:9 and 20:4). Medieval Jewish exegetes like Nachmanides and Radak have suggested that the Rephaim and Hivites are one and the...
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