Isaac ben Samuel the Elder (c. 1115 – c. 1184), also known as the Ri ha-Zaken (Hebrew: ר"י הזקן), was a French tosafist and Biblical commentator. He flourished at Ramerupt and Dampierre, France in the twelfth century. He is the father of Elhanan ben Isaac of Dampierre.
IsaacbenSamuel the Elder (c. 1115 – c. 1184), also known as the Ri ha-Zaken (Hebrew: ר"י הזקן), was a French tosafist and Biblical commentator. He flourished...
Isaacben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
IsaacbenSamuel of Acre (fl. 13th–14th century) (Hebrew: יצחק בן שמואל דמן עכו, Yitzhak ben Shmuel d'min Akko) was a Jewish kabbalist who fled to Spain...
Isaacben 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...
Isaacben Moses of Vienna, also called Isaac Or Zarua or the Riaz, is considered to be one of the prominent rabbis of the Middle Ages. He was probably...
Worms under German rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar and French rabbi Isaacben Eliezer Halevi, both of whom were pupils of Gershom ben Judah. After returning to Troyes...
and Rabbi Eliezer. His daughter married IsaacbenSamuel of Dampierre. His grandson was Rabbi Judah benIsaac Messer Leon. In a manuscript it says that...
Germany. His grandfather Kalonymus benIsaac the Elder was a scholar and parnas in Speyer (died 1126). His father Samuel, also called HeHasid "the Pious"...
Paris and of Isaacben Abraham of Sens. In 1240 he took part in the renowned controversy instigated by the baptized Jew Nicholas Donin. Samuel was the author...
Abraham Solomon benIsaacbenSamuel Catalan (born in Catalonia; died 1492) was the author of a work treating the eternity of the world, providence, prophecy...
from a publication now in the public domain: Joseph Jacobs, Isaac Broydé (1901–1906). "Moses Ben Maimon". In Singer I, et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia...
He was the most outstanding student and the spiritual heir of Rabbi IsaacbenSamuel ha-Zaken (the Ri). He is referred also known as "the Rash" ( הר"ש;...
1335) Benjamin ben Judah, 14th century Italian exegete. (c. 1290-1335) Benjamin benIsaac of Carcassonne, 14th century scholar. Judah ben Benjamin Anaw...
Zaragoza, the aged poet Judah ben Abun, Judah ibn Ghayyat of Granada, Moses ibn Ezra and his brothers Judah, Joseph, and Isaac, the vizier Abu al-Hasan, Meïr...
Abraham benIsaac of Narbonne (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן יִצְחָק מִנַרְבּוֹנָה)(c. 1080-85 – 1158) was a Provençal rabbi, also known as Raavad II, and...
an "erroneous and totally unfounded hypothesis". Isaac was the son of the famous talmudist, Abraham ben David of Posquières (Raavad). The Bahir first appeared...
and sometimes after the other city). A pupil of the great Tosafist IsaacbenSamuel of Dampierre, Baruch wrote Tosafot to several treatises (e.g., Nashim...
by Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim, who treated most important religious questions with the utmost freedom, and who was joined by the Spaniard Isaac Albalag...
Samuelben Meir (Troyes, c. 1085 – c. 1158), after his death known as the "Rashbam", a Hebrew acronym for RAbbi SHmuel Ben Meir, was a leading French Tosafist...
Rabbeinu Elhanan was a 12th-century French Tosafist and the son of IsaacbenSamuel. He is mostly known for his numerous commentaries on the Talmudic tractates...
Mosheh ben Nahman Gerondi, or "Moses son of Nahman the Gironan"), and died in the Land of Israel about 1270. He was a descendant of Isaacben Reuben of...
pupils from different countries, like Eleazar benIsaac, Jacob ben Yakar, Elijah ben Menahem, and Isaacben Eliezer Halevi. The fame of his learning eclipsed...
teachers were his father and his brother, Shmuel ben Meir, known as Rashbam. His other brothers were Isaac, known as the Rivam, and Solomon the Grammarian...
Isaacben Sheshet Perfet (or Barfat) (1326–1408) (Hebrew: יצחק בן ששת) was a Spanish Talmudic authority, also known by his acronym, Rivash (ריב"ש). He...
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