Not to be confused with Isaac Aboab da Fonseca or Isaac Aboab of Castile.
For other people named Isaac Aboab, see Isaac Aboab (disambiguation).
Isaac Aboab I
Front page of Menorat ha-Maor, Amsterdam, 1721
Personal
Born
Isaac Aboab
Aragon
Died
Toledo, Spain
Religion
Judaism
Children
Abraham Aboab II
Parent
Abraham Aboab (father)
Main work
Menorat ha-Maor
Dynasty
Aboab
Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Aboab (Hebrew: רבי יצחק בן אברהם אבוהב; fl. 1300) also known by his magnum opus, Menorat ha-Maor, was an early 14th century Spanish Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist. He is known for his intellectual approach to rabbinic literature, which he juxtaposed with contemporary Spanish Kabbalah.
Rabbi Isaac ben Abraham Aboab (Hebrew: רבי יצחק בן אברהם אבוהב; fl. 1300) also known by his magnum opus, Menorat ha-Maor, was an early 14th century Spanish...
IsaacAboab da Fonseca (or Isaak Aboab Foonseca) (February 1, 1605 – April 4, 1693) was a rabbi, scholar, kabbalist, and religious writer. In 1656, he...
of Umm al-Abohav in Tunisia. The family progenitor Abraham Aboab had one son, IsaacAboabI, who was a Talmudic scholar in Aragon. He later moved to Toledo...
IsaacAboab of Castile (1433 – January 1493), also known as IsaacAboab II, was a Spanish-Jewish Rabbi, Posek and Torah commentator. Born at Toledo, the...
Jews left Amsterdam in 1642, accompanied by two distinguished scholars—IsaacAboab da Fonseca and Moses Raphael de Aguilar. Jews supported the Dutch in...
Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
Isaac the Blind (Hebrew: רַבִּי יִצְחַק סַגִּי נְהוֹר Rabbī Yīṣḥaq Saggī Nəhōr, literally "Rabbi Isaac, of much light"; c. 1160–1235 in Provence, France)...
Among his pupils may be mentioned Samuel (ibn Sadillo) al-Valensi, IsaacAboab, and Isaac De Leon. He died at Peñafiel in 1463. He left but one work, Darche...
the tolerant attitude of James I of Aragon. Aboab had one son IsaacAboabI, who was a notable Talmudic scholar. "ABOAB - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www...
עובדיהו הדיין זכר קדושים לברכה, "I am Moshe son of Rabbi Maimon the Judge, son of Rabbi Joseph the Wise, son of Rabbi Isaac the Judge, son of Rabbi Joseph...
Torah studies in Worms under German rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar and French rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi, both of whom were pupils of the famed scholar Gershom...
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (Arabic: إسحاق الفاسي, Hebrew: ר' יצחק אלפסי) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac...
Gironan"), and died in the Land of Israel about 1270. He was a descendant of Isaac ben Reuben of Barcelona and cousin of Jonah Gerondi (Rabbeinu Yonah). Among...
Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon the Great, (Hebrew: שמעון בן יצחק; c. 950 - c. 1020) was...
halakhist. Menahem ben Helbo, 11th century French tosafist and exegete. Isaac Lattes (Toledot Yitzchak), 14th-century French chronicler. Kalonymus ben...
brothers Judah (Nos. 19, 20), Isaac (No. 21), and Moses ibn Ezra (No. 16), R. Baruch (Nos. 23, 28), Meïr ibn Migas (No. 27), Isaac Alfasi, head of the yeshiva...
destroyed. Valuable antique books belonging to the 14th-century rabbi IsaacAboabI were also lost. Jewish homes were ransacked and set on fire as looters...
produced five children. While it is believed four died early, the last-born, Isaac, became an influential poet and later convert to Islam in 1140. The conversion...
pupils from different countries, like Eleazar ben Isaac, Jacob ben Yakar, Elijah ben Menahem, and Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi. The fame of his learning eclipsed...
Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Eric Lawee (1 February 2012). Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue. State...
was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne Av Beth Din (known as the RABaD II). He was the father of R' Isaac the Blind, a Neoplatonist and important...
Buchdruckerei Louis Golde, 1909) online link. Seligsohn, M.; Kaufmann Kohler; Isaac Broydé (2002) [c. 1916]. "Levi ben Gershon". In Isidore Singer; Cyrus Adler...
1180. He is sometimes known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I. His maternal grandfather was Isaac Albalia. Some scholars believe he was the Arabic-into-Latin...
His children were Rabbi Yehuda ben Yom Tov, the father-in-law of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel (R'I the Elder), and Rabbi Yosef. His grandson was Rabbi Judah...
Gaon; Rabbi Isaac ibn Ghiyyat of Lucena; Rabbi Nissim, the author of Sefer ha-Mafteaḥ, Rabbi Samuel ben Ḥofni, Rabbi Hananel, and Rabbi Isaac Alfasi. A...
and Rabbi Eliezer. His daughter married Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre. His grandson was Rabbi Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon. In a manuscript it says that...