Provençal rabbi and Talmud commentator (c.1125–1198)
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Abraham ben David (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198),[1] also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal rabbi, an important commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi (known by the abbreviation RIF) and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key links in the chain of Jewish mystics.[citation needed]
^Abraham Zacuto, Sefer Yuchasin, Kraków 1580 (Hebrew), p. 262 in PDF. He is said[clarification needed] to have died on the Sabbath eve of Hanukkah in the year [4],959 anno mundi, a year corresponding with 1198 CE.
AbrahambenDavid (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu AbrahambenDavid) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal...
Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and...
AbrahambenDavid Caslari was a Catalan-Jewish physician. He lived at Besalú, Catalonia, in the first half of the fourteenth century. Caslari was considered...
rabbis of Provence (Southern France), and a running critique by Rabbi AbrahambenDavid (Raavad III) is printed in virtually all editions of Mishneh Torah...
Talmudists he taught there included AbrahambenDavid III (who afterward became his son-in-law) and Zerahiah ha-Levi. Abrahamben Isaac died at Narbonne in 1158...
Abrahamben Nathan (Hebrew: אברהם בן נתן) was a Provençal rabbi and scholar of the 12th-13th centuries. Abraham was born in the second half of the 12th...
ha-Zekhut, in defense of Alfasi against the criticisms of AbrahambenDavid (RABaD; printed with Abraham Meldola's Shiv'ah 'Enayim Leghorn, 1745; under the title...
Hasdai benAbraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
Yom Tov benAbraham of Seville (c. 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly known by the Hebrew acronym Ritva, (Hebrew: ריטב"א) was a...
in his commentary on the Responsa and Halachic Decisions of Rabbi AbrahambenDavid of Posquières, responsum # 91 (note 2), p. 149, that what the inquirer...
Samson benAbraham of Sens (שמשון בן אברהם משאנץ; c. 1150 – c. 1230),was one of the leading French Tosafists in the second half of the 12th and the beginning...
unfounded hypothesis". Isaac was the son of the famous talmudist, AbrahambenDavid of Posquières (Raavad). The Bahir first appeared in the Middle Ages...
Zedekiah benAbraham Anaw (13th century; also known by the surname HaRofeh) was an author of halakhic works and younger brother of Benjamin benAbraham Anaw...
date back to the Roman period. The Provençal rabbi and scholar Rabbi AbrahambenDavid wrote in anno 1161: "A tradition exists with the [Jewish] community...
delivered many joint decisions. According to Sefer HaKabbalah of Rabbi AbrahambenDavid (Ravad), he was the last of the Geonim. As a consequence of the calumnies...
Obadiah benAbraham of Bertinoro (Hebrew: ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; c. 1445 – c. 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century...
at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in the case of the other medieval...
Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
Rabbi Levi benAbrahamben Hayyim (Hebrew: לוי בן אברהם בן חיים מווילפראנש) was a French encyclopedist; champion of the liberal party in Provence in the...
the son (some say, grandson) of AbrahambenDavid of Posquières, and a pupil of his uncle Isaac the Blind. Asher benDavid is one of the earliest cabalistic...
Solomon benAbrahamben Samuel, also known as Solomon of Montpellier and Shlomo Min Hahar, was a Provençal rabbi and Talmudist of the first half of the...
השורשים, "Book of Roots") draws heavily on the earlier works of Judah benDavid Hayyuj and Jonah ibn Janah, as well as from the work of his father. These...
Jonah benAbraham Gerondi (Hebrew: יוֹנָה בֶּן־אַבְרָהָם גִירוֹנְדִי, romanized: Yōnāh bēn-ʾAvrāhām Gīrōndī, lit. 'Jonah son of Abraham the Gironan';...
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