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    Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎‎; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa...
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  • Mexico City. Built between 1941 and 1942, the synagogue was named after Yehudah Halevi, Jewish philosopher, physician and poet from medieval Spain. In 1924...
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    Tosafot until one has reached an advanced level of understanding. Like Yehudah Halevi, he focused on the distinction between the physical and the spiritual...
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  • In the later Middle Ages, however, Spanish-Jewish poets such as Judah Halevi, Ibn Gabirol, Abraham ibn Ezra and Moses ibn Ezra composed quantities of...
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  • Aharon haLevi was born in Girona, Catalonia (present-day Spain) in 1235 to his father Joseph haLevi, son of Benveniste haLevi, son of Rabbi Joseph haLevi, who...
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    Stretin, Rabbi Yehudah Tzvi of Stretin, was a foremost disciple of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi Ashlag (Baal HaSulam). His vast knowledge of the Lurianic system of...
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  • best Hebrew poetry was composed according to the Arabic model, but Yehudah Halevi, a contemporary of ibn Ezra, felt ambivalent toward the metric innovations...
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  • is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin. It is the English form of Yehudah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה‎), the Hebrew name of the biblical figure Judah, founder...
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    Naftali Yehuda Halevi Horowitz is the Bostoner Rebbe, having succeeded his father, Grand Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the second Bostoner Rebbe, upon...
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  • Iranian Poets. Al-Ghazali (c. 1058–1111). Islamic philosopher. Mystic. Yehudah HaLevi (c. 1075- 1141). Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. Peter Abelard...
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    Talmud and Shulchan Aruch. His grandfather on his mother's side was Yehudah Halevi Segal, also a rabbi in Warsaw. He was a cousin of the head of Yeshiva...
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    Spirit away Derech Eretz Zuta (post-Talmudic tractate) cited in: Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi and Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin (2013).The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised...
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    ha-Knesset ha-Hurva, lit. "The Ruin Synagogue"), also known as Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid (Hebrew: חורבת רבי יהודה החסיד, "Ruin of Rabbi Judah the Pious")...
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    Eisenstadt. According to some sources such as his nephew, Rabbi Baruch HaLevi Epstein (the author of the Torah Temima), Berlin initially was a weak student...
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    physician, and poet Judah Halevi, completed in the Hebrew year 4900 (1139-40CE). Originally written in Arabic, prompted by Halevi's contact with a Spanish...
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  • Yochai). Later, penitential verse written by Rabbi Saadia Gaon, by Rabbi Yehudah Halevi and by Rabbi Avraham ibn Ezra came to be incorporated in their prayer...
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    1998. My Heart is in the East (The life and times of Medieval Poet Yehudah Halevi from Andalusia), Massada Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 1985. The Sun Rises...
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  • Aaron HaLevi ben Moses (Hurwitz) of Staroselye was a Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist of note who lived in Poland during the latter part of the eighteenth...
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    2979/aleph.16.1.61. Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007): "Ibn Daud, Abraham Ben David Halevi" HORN, DARA (2022). PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS: reports from a haunted present...
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  • Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi (Raavyah) Eleazar of Worms (Rokeach) Meir HaKohen (Hagahot Maimuniot) Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (Yehudah haHasid) Yaakov ben...
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    under German rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar and French rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, both of whom were pupils of the famed scholar Gershom ben Judah. After...
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  • generally accepted that the person who wrote ethical will Tzava'at Rabbi Yehudah Hechasid, printed in 1583 and translated into Judæo-German, Prague, seventeenth...
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  • Abulafia Meir Halevi Abulafia Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia Samuel he-Hasid Todros Abulafia Yehuda Alharizi (1190-1240) Judah Ben Samuel Halevi (born c....
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  • Eliezer ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn (Hebrew acronym ראבי״ה‎ Ra'avyah; 1140–1225) was a Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asher...
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    Ezra was a close friend of Judah Halevi, who was some 14 years older. When ibn Ezra moved to Córdoba as a young man, Halevi followed him. This trend continued...
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  • HaLevi Herzog (1921–1937) Immanuel Jakobovits (1949–1958) Isaac Cohen (1959–1979) David Rosen (1979–1984) Ephraim Mirvis (1985–1992) Shimon Yehudah Harris...
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    Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi (Raavyah) Eleazar of Worms (Rokeach) Meir HaKohen (Hagahot Maimuniot) Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (Yehudah haHasid) Yaakov ben...
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  • writing how the things of our universe came into existence. Conversely, Judah Halevi asserts that the main objective of the book, with its various examples,...
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    Jerusalem: A Biography of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, 2005. ISBN 978-1420872613 Yehudah Mirsky, "An Intellectual and Spiritual Biography of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhaq...
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    Abraham Yehudah Khein (1878 in Chernihiv – 5 October 1957) was a Chabad-Hasidic Rabbi in the Ukrainian town Nizhyn. Rabbi Khein was a pacifist anarchist...
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