Leon de Modena or in Hebrew name Yehudah Aryeh Mi-Modena (1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France.
Leon de Modena or in Hebrew name Yehudah Aryeh Mi-Modena (1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose ancestors migrated to Italy...
annually during the festivals of Sukkot and Hanukkah, respectively. Notable residents of the Ghetto have included LeonofModena, whose family originated in...
ibn Daud and LeonofModena. Among the Geonim, Hai Gaon argued with Saadia Gaon in favour of gilgulim. Rabbis who believed in the idea of reincarnation...
kabbalistic literature. Fioretta's husband, Solomon ofModena, was the uncle of the scholar and rabbi LeonofModena. Fioretta's grandson was Aaron Berechiah, a...
by LeonofModena (d. 1648) in his Ari Nohem, by Jean Morin (d. 1659), and by Jacob Emden (d. 1776). Emden—who may have been familiar with Modena through...
fact not meaningful French. The Italian rabbi LeonofModena composed at age 13 an octave by the name of "Kinah Sh'mor", meaningful in both Hebrew and...
Joseph ibn Tzaddik José Faur Jiddu Krishnamurti Kundakunda Lao Tzu Leon of Modena Madhvacharya Maimonides Melville Y. Stewart Mircea Eliade Moses Narboni...
attribution of its authorship to the tanna R. Neḥunya ben ha-Kanah and describing some of its content as truly heretical. LeonofModena, a 17th-century...
of the liberties of Republican Venice. His writings inspired Thomas Hobbes, Edward Gibbon, and the founding fathers of the United States. LeonModena...
extensively refer to Jewish sources like the Codes of Law, Maimonides, Moses of Coucy, Ibn Ezra, LeonofModena and Menasseh Ben Israel. The jurists referring...
Magen ṿe-tsinah (מגן וצנה; "Shield and Buckler"), a long rebuttal by LeonofModena, of the Venice community, written in response to religious queries about...
Joseph Hamekane of R. Joseph hen R. Nathan l'official, 13th century (Paris MS) The Touchstone of Ibn Shaprut Hasdai Crescas LeonofModena The works bear...
author of the Kol Bo (15th century); and LeonofModena (d. 1648). In addition, nearly all printed machzorim contain expositions and explanations of the...
graduating in 1613 he moved to Venice and spent a year in the company ofLeon de Modena and Simone Luzzatto. From Venice he went back to Candia and from there...
praised also by LeonofModena, who composed a song in his honor, which was printed at the beginning of the Olat Shabbat, the second part of the Zemirot Yisrael...
"Shir Hashirim" of Salomone Rossi (Venice, 1623) which includes a rabbinical curse on those infringing the text, written by LeonofModena. The first international...
Vital and rabbi LeonofModena claim matter-of-factly to have asked a dream question. The Use of Numbers Ezekiel 1:1 refers to visions of God saying, "And...
philosophers, especially LeonofModena. He attacked decisors for demonstrating legalistic rigidity, arrogance and apathy as many of the young turned away...
second part of the work. In the preface Reggio outlined LeonofModena's biography. The notes are independent treatises reviewing Modena's works chapter...
written for the occasion by LeonofModena and beginning with Yom zeh. Some congregations add Avinu Malkenu. For the text of the Selichot see Baer, Avodat...
authorities was inspired by fear of the Christian Church rather than by traditional practice. Another such was LeonofModena, who, complaining that "the thinker...
composer, lutenist, viol player and poet LeonofModena, also known as: (Judah) Leon(e) Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (born 1571), rabbi, orator, scholar...
and Leon de Modena. Saadia Gaon, in Emunoth ve-Deoth (Hebrew: "beliefs and opinions") concludes Section VI with a refutation of the doctrine of metempsychosis...
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