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Aharon Ben Yosef Ha-Levi
(13th–14th cent.), Talmudic scholar and commentator also known as Harah. He was born in Barcelona and was a student of Moses Nahmanides.Very few of Aharon ben Yosef ha-Levi’s works ...
ʿazri’el of Gerona
(13th cent.), one of the leading kabbalists in Catalonia. His mystical works are based on the teachings of R. Yitsḥaq Saggi Nahor and the Sefer ha-Bahir, combined with contemporary philosophical ...
Baḥya Ben Asher
(13th cent. ce).Jewish commentator and kabbalist. Serving as Dayyan in Saragossa, he produced a commentary on the Pentateuch (Be'urʿal ha-Torah, 1291) which interpreted the text literally, ...
Disputation of Barcelona
Jewish- Christian public disputation held in 1263. In the latter part of the thirteenth century, a Jewish convert to Christianity named Friar Paul Christian developed a fresh approach to polemics ...
equity
N.1 That part of English law originally administered by the Lord Chancellor and later by the Court of Chancery, as distinct from that administered by the courts of common law. The common law did not ...
Ḥiddushim
(), a genre of rabbinic literature, also referred to as novellae, usually devoted to the discussion of Talmudic materials, although the term is also used to describe biblical commentary (by ...
kabbalah
The ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, first transmitted orally and using esoteric methods (including ciphers). It reached the height of its influence in the later ...
Kapparot
(Heb., ‘atonements’).Folk custom in Judaism, involving a cock or hen, to secure atonement before the Day of Atonement, so that an adverse judgement would not be reached on that ...
Law, Rabbinic
Religious laws introduced by the Talmudic Rabbis and other early sages in order to create, as it is put in Ethics of the Fathers (1. 1), a ‘fence around the Torah’, that is, to add restrictions, over ...
Literature, Religious
The Pentateuch and the other books of the Bible are the sacred books par excellence for the Jewish religion although, traditionally, the Pentateuch was not treated as a human composition at all and ...
Me’ir Aldabi
(c.1310–1360), Spanish mystical philosopher. A grandson of Asher ben Yeḥi’el, Aldabi was the author of Shevilei Emunah, an encyclopedic treatise on the existence and nature of God, creation, the ...
Naḥmanides (1194–1270) Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
(1194–1270)
Ramban, acronym of Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, called Bonastrug da Porta, a Catalan rabbi,
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A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
Spanish Talmudist, Kabbalist, and biblical exegete (1194–1270), known, after the initial letters of his name, as Ramban (Rabbi
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
(1194–1270), biblical exegete, kabbalist, halakhist, poet, and physician; also known as Moshe ben Naḥman, Naḥmani, Ramban, and Bonastrug da Porta. Nahmanides was an intellectual and ...
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Naḥmanides, Moses ben Naḥman (1194–1270) Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
(1194–1270).
Spanish Jewish philosopher and Talmudic scholar. Naḥmanides earned his living as a physician. He founded a yeshivah
Peshāt
The literal meaning of a Jewish text. Peshāt is generally contrasted with derāsh, the non-literal interpretation.
Rashbam
French commentator to the Bible and the Talmud (d.c. 1174), called Rashbam after the initial letters of his name, Rabbi Shemuel ben Meir. Rashbam's father, Rabbi Meir, married Yochebed, daughter of ...
reincarnation
Term generally avoided by writers on Buddhism since it implies the existence of an immortal soul (ātman) that is periodically incarnated in a fleshly host, a notion more proper to Hinduism. By ...
Sambatyon
A river in Jewish legend. After the Assyrian conquest of 721 bce, the ten Northern tribes were said to have been exiled across the river Sambatyon. It was said to ...
