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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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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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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Three Oaths (section Bahya ben Asher)
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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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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Shlomo ibn Aderet (redirect from Solomon ben Aderet)
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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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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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...
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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...
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Abraham ibn Ezra (redirect from Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra)
Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא, romanized: ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic:...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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Nachmanides (redirect from Moses Ben Nahman)
Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...
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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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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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Isaac Abarbanel (redirect from Isaac ben Judah Abrabanel)
Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
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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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Judah Halevi (redirect from Judah ben Samuel ha-Levi Abulhassan)
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...
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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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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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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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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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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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despite the assertion that they are only vehicles to manifest God. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, who gave the first full systemization of Kabbalah in the...
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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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