Judah ben Asher (30 June 1270 – 4 July 1349)[1] was a German Talmudist and later rabbi of Toledo, Spain, son of Rabbenu Asher and brother of Jacob ben Asher ("Ba'al haTurim").
^These dates are deduced from the evidence furnished by Judah's testament and epitaphs (Luzzatto, Abne Zikkaron, No. 5; see Schechter in Bet Talmud, iv. 340-346, 372-379
JudahbenAsher (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...
Jewish community of Toledo (Zacuto), while others say his brother JudahbenAsher did. His brothers were also rabbis of different communities in Iberia...
Rabbi Eliezer ben Nathan (the RaABaN). Asher had eight sons, the most prominent of whom were Jacob (author of the Arba'ah Turim) and Judah. In 1286, King...
Gershom benJudah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic...
Isaac benJudah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל; 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judahben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa...
Judahben Barzillai (Albargeloni) was a Catalan Talmudist of the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century. Almost nothing is known of his...
ben Yoel HaLevi of Bonn (Hebrew acronym ראבי״ה Ra'avyah; 1140–1225) was a Rabbinic scholar in Germany. He had a significant influence on Asherben Jehiel...
Judahben Isaac Messer Leon (1166–1224) was a French tosafist born in Paris. Born in 1166 in Paris, France, his father Rabbi Isaac Treves was a rabbi...
מוורמייזא - also מגרמייזא of Garmiza or Garmisa) (c. 1176–1238), or Eleazar benJudahben Kalonymus, also sometimes known today as Eleazar Rokeach ("Eleazar the...
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...
1335) Benjamin benJudah, 14th century Italian exegete. (c. 1290-1335) Benjamin ben Isaac of Carcassonne, 14th century scholar. Judahben Benjamin Anaw...
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...
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...
Bahya benAsher ibn Halawa (בחיי בן אשר אבן חלואה, 1255–1340) was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism, best known as a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He...
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...
thousand. Among his numerous students were Yom Tov Asevilli and Bahya benAsher. A manuscript purporting to be a certificate of indebtedness, dated 1262...
Gerondi (Rabbeinu Yonah). Among his teachers in Talmud were Judahben Yakar and Nathan ben Meïr of Trinquetaille, and he is said to have been instructed...
century CE, who was from Mainz. Yehuda was the principal teacher of Gershom benJudah, and his work was highly influential on the later writings of Rashi. Yehuda...
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...
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...
extensively to translate the works of grammarian and biblical exegetist Judahben David Hayyuj from their original Judeo-Arabic to Hebrew. Published as...
now known as Rabbeinu Behaye, the other being Bible commentator Bahya benAsher. He was the author of the first Jewish system of ethics, written in Arabic...
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...
Asherben Meshullam was a Jewish theologian and Talmudic scholar who lived at Lunel in the second half of the 12th century CE. A renowned Talmudist, he...
Jerusalem Talmud; Abraham ben Nathan of Lunel, author of HaManhig; Meir ben Isaac of Carcassonne, author of Sefer haEzer; and Asherben Meshullam of Lunel,...
Hai Gaon, Shabbethai Donnolo, BenAsher, Ben Naphtali, and his teacher R. Samson, while he cites passages from Menahem ben Saruk and Moses ha-Darshan without...
Judahben Nathan, also referred to by the Hebrew acronym RiVaN, was a gifted French rabbi and commentator on the Talmud in the eleventh to twelfth century...
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