Abraham Maimonides (Hebrew: אברהם בן רמב"ם; also known as Rabbeinu Avraham ben ha-Rambam, and Avraham Maimuni, June 13, 1186[1] – December 7, 1237) was the son of Maimonides and succeeded his father as nagid of the Egyptian Jewish community.
Cairo Genizah fragment by Abraham ibn Maymun
^Russ-Fishbane, Elisha (2015). Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780198728764.
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AbrahamMaimonides (Hebrew: אברהם בן רמב"ם; also known as Rabbeinu Avraham ben ha-Rambam, and Avraham Maimuni, June 13, 1186 – December 7, 1237) was the...
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/ my-MON-ih-deez) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם)...
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predilection for their ethical principles. AbrahamMaimonides, the son of the Jewish philosopher Maimonides, believed that Sufi practices and doctrines...
classic commentary to the Five books of Moses. AbrahamMaimonides (in the spirit of his father Maimonides, Saadiah Gaon, and other predecessors) explains...
began to make many Egyptian Jews long to adopt something similar. AbrahamMaimonides (1204–1237), who was considered to be the most prominent leader and...
chosenness in the Kuzari While Menachem Kellner reads Maimonides as anti-"Proto-Kabbalah" (Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism, Littman Library), David...
the Midrash HaGadol, variously that it is the work of Maimonides' son, Rabbi AbrahamMaimonides, which opinion follows that of Yiḥyah Salaḥ (an opinion...
The most famous of these was an enumeration of the 613 commandments by Maimonides. While the total number of commandments is 613, no individual can perform...
Karaites became Rabbinical Jews during the time of the Nagid Rabbi AbrahamMaimonides, who, in his words, "was not reluctant to receive them." During the...
Jewish tradition, the Tomb of Maimonides (Hebrew: קבר הרמב"ם Kever ha-Rambam) is located in Tiberias, Israel. Although Maimonides, a Sephardic Jew, died in...
meditation practices were encouraged by many medieval rabbis, such as AbrahamMaimonides, Abraham Abulafia, Joseph Gikatilla, Moses de Leon, Moses Cordovero, Isaac...
as the model for Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera’s Epistle of Debate. AbrahamMaimonides, Maimonides’ son, was outraged when he heard of the accusations brought...
regarded as Maimonides' magnum opus. Accordingly, later sources simply refer to the work as "Maimon", "Maimonides", or "RaMBaM", although Maimonides composed...
between God and Abraham. The thought of actually killing Isaac never crossed their minds. In The Guide for the Perplexed, Maimonides argues that the story...
Maimonides College was a Jewish institute of higher education which existed in Philadelphia from 1867 to 1873. It was named for the great mediaeval Jewish...
explanations given by Maimonides (born 1135), who also compiled a Judeo-Arabic commentary on the Mishnah (see: Nathan ben Abraham (1955), vol. 1, Preface...
Abraham ibn Ezra Isaac ibn Ghiyyat Moses ibn Ezra Yehuda Alharizi Joseph ibn Tzaddik Samuel ibn Tibbon Location of Fostat in modern Egypt Maimonides wrote...
together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran...
Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers...
anonymous epistle attributed to Maimonides; Rabbi Reuven Tzarfati, a kabbalist active in 14th century Italy; Abraham Shalom, Yohanan Alemanno, Judah Albotini...
was the most prominent pupil of Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, the leader of the opponents of Maimonides' philosophical works, and was one of the signers...
about 1238, for support by Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, who had been excommunicated by supporters of Maimonides, Nachmanides addressed a letter to...
appears to slow down at the end of the Second Temple period, and even Maimonides (1138–1204) considered history a waste of time. Officially, secular philosophy...
Messiah was first recorded in the Talmud and later codified in halakha by Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah as one of the fundamental requisites of the Jewish...
philosopher and a renowned halakhist (teacher of Jewish law). Along with Maimonides ("Rambam"), Gersonides ("Ralbag"), and Joseph Albo, he is known as one...