Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also 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 Talmudist and Halakhist.
Less than a century after Gershom's death Rashi said of him,[1] "all members of the Ashkenazi diaspora are students of his." As early as the 14th century, Asher ben Jehiel wrote that Rabbeinu Gershom's writings were "such permanent fixtures that they may well have been handed down on Mount Sinai."[2]
He is most famous for the synod he called around 1000 CE, in which he instituted various laws and bans, including prohibiting polygamy, requiring the consent of both parties to a divorce, modifying the rules concerning those who became apostates under compulsion, and prohibiting the opening of correspondence addressed to someone else.
GershombenJudah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic...
century CE, who was from Mainz. Yehuda was the principal teacher of GershombenJudah, and his work was highly influential on the later writings of Rashi...
moral decisions which was advanced by ibn Daud and Gersonides (Levi benGershom) is not quite as isolated as Rabbi Bleich indicates, and it enjoys the...
in his early years he went to Germany, where he became a pupil of GershombenJudah. He later returned to France, settling in Le Mans, and allegedly married...
Isaac benJudah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
Yaakov ben Yakar (990 – 1064) was a German Talmudist. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil of GershombenJudah in Mainz...
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judahben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa...
Rabbi Judahben Yom Tov (Hebrew: יהודה בן יום טוב) was one of the Baalei Tosafot in France, a member of Rashi's family. His father was Rabbi Yom Tov of...
writers whom Judah quotes include Amram Gaon, Sherira Gaon, Hai Gaon, Nissim Gaon, Alfasi, Maimonides, Elijah ben Menahem, GershombenJudah, Jacob of Orleans...
Maimon ben Joseph, was a dayyan or rabbinic judge. Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen later wrote that he had traced Maimonides' descent back to Simeon benJudah ha-Nasi...
מוורמייזא - also מגרמייזא of Garmiza or Garmisa) (c. 1176–1238), or Eleazar benJudahben Kalonymus, also sometimes known today as Eleazar Rokeach ("Eleazar the...
Judahben Asher (30 June 1270 – 4 July 1349) was a German Talmudist and later rabbi of Toledo, Spain, son of Rabbenu Asher and brother of Jacob ben Asher...
Judahben Samuel of Regensburg (1150 – 22 February 1217), also called Yehuda HeHasid or 'Judah the Pious' in Hebrew, was a leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz...
Germany. Born in Lorraine, France in his early years he studied under GershombenJudah, later moving to Worms where he served as the city's Chief Rabbi....
brother was Simeon bar Isaac, rabbi of Mainz. Simon was a disciple of GershombenJudah, who died that same year. On his father's side, Rashi has been claimed...
Judahben Kalonymus ben Moses of Mainz (died 1200) was a Jewish German scholar, halakhic authority, and kabbalist. In his early years, he studied in Speyer...
Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as...
extend the ban on polygamy to Jewish communities. In 1000, Rabbi GershombenJudah ruled polygamy inadmissible within Ashkenazi Jewish communities living...
also called Rabbi Yom Tov ben Rabbi Yehuda, was one of the 11th-century Baalei Tosafot in France. His father was Judahben Nathan (Rivan), who was Rashi's...
Judahben Yakar (d. between 1201 and 1218) was a rabbi and talmudist. Born in Provence, he later studied under Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre in northern...
and embittered the closing years of his life. He left three sons, Isaac, Judah, and Astruc Solomon, all of whom were learned in the Talmud. Aderet defended...
extensively to translate the works of grammarian and biblical exegetist Judahben David Hayyuj from their original Judeo-Arabic to Hebrew. Published as...
Rabbi Judahben Benjamin Anav (Hebrew: יהודה בן בנימין ענו or ריבב"ן; approximately 1215-1280) was one of the Rishonim in Italy. He wrote a known commentary...
to take more than one wife because of a ban instituted on this by GershombenJudah (d. 1040 CE). However, academic scholarship indicates that prohibitions...
literature. GershombenJudah, his brother Machir benJudah, Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils (Tob 'Elem) of Limoges, Rabbeinu Tam (Jacob ben Meïr), Menahem ben Perez...
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