For the printers of Hebrew books, see Gersonides (printers).
Gersonides
Born
Levi ben Gershon (לוי בן גרשון)
1288
Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Died
1344 (aged 55–56)
Perpignan
Era
Medieval philosophy
Region
Jewish philosophy
Main interests
Religious philosophy, mathematics
Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus,[1] or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG,[2] was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan.
^Hyman, Arthur; Walsh, James J.; Williams, Thomas (24 September 2010). Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions. Hackett. ISBN 9781603844512.
^"Ralbag" is the acronym of "Rabbi Levi Ben Gershon", with vowels added to make it easily pronouncable, the normal traditional Jewish practice with the names of prominent Rabbis.[citation needed]
creation and miracles, in respect to which Gersonides deviates widely from the position of Maimonides. Gersonides was also the author of commentaries on the...
determine [and affect] the Law, but rather on the Talmudic discussions". Gersonides held that the number 613 was only one rabbi's (Rabbi Simlai's) opinion...
medieval jewish philosophy, especially Gersonides, and Spinoza. Salo Baron invited him to translate Gersonides' major philosophical work, The Wars of...
the first printers of Hebrew books in Prague. He was the founder of the Gersonides, a dynasty of Ashkenazi Jewish printers. Mid-career, he attained rights...
and Maimonides.[citation needed] Gersonides held that God does not have complete foreknowledge of human acts. "Gersonides, bothered by the old question of...
Alexandria, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Saadia Gaon, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, and Gersonides. Major changes occurred in response to the Enlightenment (late 18th to...
Nachmanides Samuel ibn Tibbon Joseph ben Judah Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del...
Kabbalistic works (such as the Zohar) Philosophical works (Maimonides, Gersonides, Nahmanides) Ethical works (Bahya ibn Paquda, Jonah of Gerona) The Acharonim...
request of composer and music theorist Philippe de Vitry, the mathematician Gersonides writes De numeris harmonicis (On Harmonic Numbers), based on a postulate...
there were many Jewish Averroist philosophers, notably Elijah Delmedigo; Gersonides wrote a supercommentary on Averroes' Aristotelian commentaries. Some Averroist...
halakhist (teacher of Jewish law). Along with Maimonides ("Rambam"), Gersonides ("Ralbag"), and Joseph Albo, he is known as one of the major practitioners...
influence. Gersonides believed that astrology was real, and developed a naturalistic, non-supernatural explanation of how it works. For Gersonides, astrology...
ben Aderet (RaShBA) Jewish philosophical rationalist works (Maimonides, Gersonides etc.) Kabbalistic mystical works (such as the Zohar) Mussar literature...
John Wiley & Sons. p. 33. ISBN 978-1405125567. Rudavsky, Tamar (2020), "Gersonides", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter...
continued by later European geometers, including Vitello (c. 1230 – c. 1314), Gersonides (1288–1344), Alfonso, John Wallis, and Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, that...
Leo Hebraeus may refer to: Judah Leon Abravanel Gersonides This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link...
philosophers held that God does not have complete foreknowledge of human acts. Gersonides, for example, argued that God knows the choices open to each individual...
the Christians did. Men such as Isaac Albalag, Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera, Gersonides, Moses ben Joshua, and others, were denounced by Abarbanel as infidels...
later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson (better known as Gersonides), in 1321. The arithmetical triangle—a graphical diagram showing relationships...
Nachmanides Samuel ibn Tibbon Joseph ben Judah Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del...
yeshivas. Some classical rabbinic commentators, such as Abraham Ibn Ezra, Gersonides, and Maimonides, used many elements of contemporary biblical criticism...
first n odd integers is n2. The earliest rigorous use of induction was by Gersonides (1288–1344). The first explicit formulation of the principle of induction...
of proof.) However, some of Maimonides' Jewish successors, including Gersonides and Crescas, conversely held that the question was decidable, philosophically...
An-Nasir Ahmad, deposed Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1316) date unknown Gersonides, French rabbi and mathematician (b. 1288) Raoul I of Brienne, Count of...
Natan'el al-Fayyumi, Elia del Medigo, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi and Gersonides. Philosophy by Jews in Modern era was expressed by philosophers, mainly...
"Sisera's zodiac". However, most medieval Rabbinic commentators (D. Qimhi, Gersonides, Abarbanel, Sforno, Qara, di Trani,) agree that Meroz is a place, as does...
Christian Western Europe, but also Rabbanite Jews such as Maimonides and Gersonides, who also used his arguments against their Karaite rivals. His work was...
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