Encyclopædia Britannica article "Nachmanides". Video Lecture on Nachmanides by Dr. Henry Abramson Iggeres HaRamban - Nachmanides's letter to his son Igeres Haramban...

treat them as binding would effectively nullify a biblical commandment. Nachmanides continues to say this command applies in every generation, even during...

Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments") by Maimonides, with a commentary by Nachmanides. Maimonides employs a set of fourteen rules (shorashim) which determine...

Orthodox Judaism. In general, Nachmanides' view is influential in Haredi Judaism, while Maimonides' view — in addition to Nachmanides' — underpins much of Modern...

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...

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...

do?" Nachmanides noted that prophetic promises of the Messianic Age, a reign of universal peace and justice had not yet been fulfilled. Nachmanides also...

The area also suffered from many earthquakes and black plague. When Nachmanides visited in 1267 he found only two Jewish families, in a population of...

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...

Halevi Abraham ibn Daud Joseph ibn Tzaddik Abraham ibn Ezra Maimonides Nachmanides Samuel ibn Tibbon Joseph ben Judah Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides...

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...

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...

However, Nachmanides disagreed, partly because he viewed the seventh law as a positive commandment that was not punishable by death. Instead, Nachmanides said...

thinkers, such as the Kabbalists Isaac the Blind, Azriel of Gerona and Nachmanides and the earlier Jewish neoplatonic philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron)...

commentaries in similar styles. Among these are the commentaries of Nachmanides (Ramban), Solomon ben Adret (Rashba), Yom Tov of Seville (Ritva) and...

Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi and even authorities as late as Nachmanides and Maimonides, and earlier mystical texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah...

rabbinic decrees is stipulated by the verse and thou shalt observe, while Nachmanides argued that such severity is unfounded, while accepting such enactments...

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...

Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. "Catalonia Pays Homage to Nachmanides". Haaretz. Retrieved 10 January 2024. "The Museum of Jewish History"...

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...

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...

Many kabbalists were also leading legal figures in Judaism, such as Nachmanides and Joseph Karo. Medieval kabbalah elaborates particular reasons for...

business. Its best known philosophic formulation is by both Rashi and Nachmanides in their respective Torah commentaries. Commenting on Deuteronomy 6.18...

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...

isle. Tradition has it that Nachmanides was the one who founded the synagogue. After the Disputation of Barcelona, Nachmanides was exiled from Aragon,[citation...

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...

(Ba-Midbar), page 196. Nachmanides, Commentary on the Torah (Jerusalem, circa 1270), in, e.g., Charles B. Chavel, translator, Ramban (Nachmanides): Commentary on...

Halevi Abraham ibn Daud Joseph ibn Tzaddik Abraham ibn Ezra Maimonides Nachmanides Samuel ibn Tibbon Joseph ben Judah Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides...

result of being reincarnated. Torah scholar, commentator and kabbalist, Nachmanides (Ramban 1195–1270), attributed Job's suffering to reincarnation, as hinted...

have gotten a man from the Lord." In this viewpoint, articulated by Nachmanides in the thirteenth century, Cain's name presages his role of mastery,...