Azriel of Gerona information

poet Meshullam of Gerona hails Azriel as the greatest Kabbalist of Spain, and Isaac the Blind, later opposed Azriel's open propagation of kabbalistic doctrines...

Azriel or Ezriel may refer to: Azriel the father of Seraiah in the Bible, see Jeremiah 36#Verse 26 Azriel of Gerona (c. 1160–c. 1238), Catalan kabbalist...

9th of Shevat, 1376, Hebrew: נִסִּים בֶּן רְאוּבֵן) of Girona, Catalonia was an influential talmudist and authority on Jewish law. He was one of the last...

Nathan ben Meïr of Trinquetaille, and he is said to have been instructed in Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) by his countryman Azriel of Gerona, who was in turn...

14th century, and Azriel of Gerona, Azriel ben Menahem, one of the most important kabbalists in the Catalan town of Girona (north of Barcelona) during...

Blind, Azriel of Gerona, Moses Cordovero, Yosef Karo and Isaac Luria), Hasidic rabbis (Baal Shem Tov, Schneur Zalman of Liadi and Nachman of Breslov)...

Nissim of Gerona, (RaN), 14th century Halakhist and Talmudist Rashi, (Solomon ben Yitzchak), 11th century French Talmudist, the primary commentator of Talmud...

study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism...

"father of the rabbis of God", which seems to favor the pronunciation "Abrabanel".[citation needed] Abarbanel was born in Lisbon, Portugal, into one of the...

Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent...

Blind, Azriel of Gerona and Nachmanides and the earlier Jewish neoplatonic philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron), who modified it in the light of their...

Yaakov ben Yakar and French rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, both of whom were pupils of Gershom ben Judah. After returning to Troyes, Rashi joined the beth...

reascending the levels of emanations to unite with Divine Thought. The most famous student of Isaac was Azriel of Gerona. Hachmei Provence Aaron of Cardena Girona...

Jerusalem, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, or in Alexandria, Egypt. Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both...

of Schaumburg and Holstein (d. 1225) Alice of Courtenay, French noblewoman (d. 1218) Ali ibn al-Athir, Arab historian and biographer (d. 1233) Azriel...

Nissim of Gerona (the RaN) compiled a detailed and explicit commentary on this work; In yeshivot "the Rif and the RaN" are regularly studied as part of the...

studied at the school of Nissim of Gerona. Isaac was a paternal descendant of Sheshet Benveniste, and a descendant of Azriel of Gerona through his father's...

Occitania, then under the rule of Philip II of France. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Joseph Kimhi and the brother of Moses Kimhi, both also biblical...

one of the oldest and most important Jewish communities in Navarre. At the time, the town was under the rule of the emirs of the Muslim Taifa of Zaragoza...

Catalonia/Girona circle (North-East Spain 13th century): Ezra ben Solomon Azriel of Gerona Synthesised Gnostic and Neoplatonic elements c. 1160–1238 Nachmanides...

"is separated from the latter by 500 years". It was first quoted by Azriel of Gerona and then by Nachmanides, placing its composition no later than the...

commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah ("Our teacher Gershom the light of the exile"), was a famous...

others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in the case of the other medieval Jewish philosophers little is known of his life. His family had...

Not to be confused with Simeon bar Isaac, uncle of Rashi. Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon...

work of Assevilli's father or Bezalel Ashkenazi, however it is now assumed to be the genuine work of Assevilli himself. Shabbat: Nissim of Gerona's commentary...

Rabbi Yom Tov of Falaise, Hebrew: יום טוב מפלייזא also called Rabbi Yom Tov ben Rabbi Yehuda, was one of the 11th-century Baalei Tosafot in France. His...

Azriel of Gerona and Nachmanides: "This line of Kabbalah follows the Toledano Tradition dating back to medieval Spain where the three branches of the...

Eleazar of Worms (אלעזר מוורמייזא - also מגרמייזא of Garmiza or Garmisa) (c. 1176–1238), or Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus, also sometimes known today...

and were among the early sages of German Jewry. There are also disagreements about the year of his birth and year of death. Leopold Zunz dates his death...

then in the Kingdom of Castile, in 1340. He was the third son of the Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel (known as the "Rosh"), a Rabbi of the Holy Roman Empire...