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Meir Abulafia is commonly known as "the Ramah" (Hebrew: רמ"ה). He should not be confused with Moses Isserles, known as "the Rema" or "the Rama" (Hebrew: רמ"א).

Meir ben Todros HaLevi Abulafia (/ˈm.ər həˈlvi ˌæbˈlæfiə/ MAY-ər hə-LAY-vee AB-oo-LAF-ee-ə; c. 1170 – 1244), also known as the Ramah (Hebrew: הרמ"ה) (an acronym of his Hebrew name), was a major Sephardic Talmudist and Halachic authority in medieval Spain.

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Meir Abulafia

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Meir Abulafia is commonly known as "the Ramah" (Hebrew: רמ"ה). He should not be confused with Moses Isserles, known as "the Rema" or "the Rama" (Hebrew:...

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Abulafia

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Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291), kabbalist the conspiracy-generating computer in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (named after Abraham Abulafia) Meir Abulafia...

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Levite

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ben Moshe Levi Moelin Luis de Torres Abraham Fraenkel Shmuel Wosner Meir Abulafia Samuel ibn Naghrillah Yehuda Ashlag Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik Pinchas...

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Abraham ibn Ezra

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Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא‎ ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע‎; Arabic: إبراهيم...

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Rishonim

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Talmudist and rosh yeshiva; teacher of Maimon, father of Maimonides Meir Abulafia, (Yad Ramah), 13th century Spanish Talmudist Maimonides, Moshe Ben Maimon...

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Todros ben Joseph Abulafia

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Todros ben Joseph Abulafia (Hebrew: טודרוס בן יוסף אבולעפיה, 1225 – c. 1285) (Hebrew: טודרוס בן יוסף אבולעפא) was a nephew of Meir Abulafia and Chief Rabbi...

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Rabbeinu Tam

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Jacob ben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and...

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Samson ben Abraham of Sens

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Maimonides in their disputes. He kept up a lively correspondence with Rabbi Meïr Abulafia, and like him, condemned Maimonides' rationalistic views on bodily resurrection...

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Talmud

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style. Two of the most significant of these are the Yad Ramah by rabbi Meir Abulafia and Bet Habechirah by rabbi Menahem haMeiri, commonly referred to as...

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Ramah

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Conservative Movement of Judaism Ramah, the Hebrew acronym of Rabbi Meir Abulafia Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation, New Mexico Ramah, New Mexico, a town...

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Gershom ben Judah

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someone else. Born in Metz in 960, Gershom was a student of Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir (Sir Léontin), who was one of the greatest authorities of his time. Having...

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Maimonides

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Abraham ibn Ezra Yom Tov Asevilli (Ritva) Joseph ibn Migash (Ri Migash) Meir Abulafia (Ramah) Bahya ibn Paquda Bahya ben Asher David Abudirham Joseph Albo...

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Shlomo ibn Aderet

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Nissim ben Abraham of Avila, a pretended worker of miracles, and by Abraham Abulafia, the kabbalistic visionary. He combated these with vigor, but displayed...

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Abraham ben David

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Elzéar, the lord of Posquières, had him cast into prison, where, like Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, he might have died, had not Count Roger II Trencavel, who...

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Maimonidean Controversy

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denies the universal resurrection, he is accused as such by ben David. Meir Abulafia was initially an admirer of Maimonides. When he found, however, about...

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David Kimhi

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Abraham ibn Ezra Yom Tov Asevilli (Ritva) Joseph ibn Migash (Ri Migash) Meir Abulafia (Ramah) Bahya ibn Paquda Bahya ben Asher David Abudirham Joseph Albo...

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Timeline of antisemitism

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another, and executes others with an axe. 1360 Sephardic Jew Samuel ben Meir Abulafia is arrested and tortured to death in prison for no apparent reason....

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Judah Halevi

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Ezra and his brothers Judah, Joseph, and Isaac, the vizier Abu al-Hasan, Meïr ibn Kamnial, the physician and poet Solomon ben Mu'allam of Seville, besides...

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Asher ben Jehiel

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the Rosh, Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, left Germany but was captured and imprisoned. The Rosh raised a ransom for his release, but Rabbi Meir refused it, for...

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Todros ben Judah Halevi Abulafia

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Learned and his son Sancho IV of Castile." A distant relative of Meir Abulafia, Todros Abulafia was born in 1247 in Toledo. He mastered Arabic, and was well...

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Meir ben Samuel

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Meir ben Samuel (Hebrew: מאיר בן שמואל), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaM for Rabbi Meir, was a French rabbi and tosafist, who was born in about 1060...

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1244

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of Thessalonica Manfred III of Saluzzo, Italian nobleman and knight Meir Abulafia (or Ramah), Castilian rabbi and writer Minamoto no Mitsuyuki, Japanese...

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Nachmanides

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Yonah). Among his teachers in Talmud were Judah ben Yakar and Nathan ben Meïr of Trinquetaille, and he is said to have been instructed in Kabbalah (Jewish...

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Yehuda HaKohen ben Meir

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Yehuda ben Meir, also known as Yehudah Leontin, was a German rabbi and Talmudic scholar of the late tenth and early eleventh century CE, who was from Mainz...

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Azriel of Gerona

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Abraham ibn Ezra Yom Tov Asevilli (Ritva) Joseph ibn Migash (Ri Migash) Meir Abulafia (Ramah) Bahya ibn Paquda Bahya ben Asher David Abudirham Joseph Albo...

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Solomon ben Meir

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& Meir ben Samuel Isaac ben Meir (RIvaM) Samuel ben Meir (RaShbaM) Solomon ben Meir Jacob ben Meir (Rabbeinu Tam) Margolioth family Hannah bat Meir &...

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Jacob ben Asher

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Abraham ibn Ezra Yom Tov Asevilli (Ritva) Joseph ibn Migash (Ri Migash) Meir Abulafia (Ramah) Bahya ibn Paquda Bahya ben Asher David Abudirham Joseph Albo...

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Isaac Alfasi

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Abraham ibn Ezra Yom Tov Asevilli (Ritva) Joseph ibn Migash (Ri Migash) Meir Abulafia (Ramah) Bahya ibn Paquda Bahya ben Asher David Abudirham Joseph Albo...

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Judaism and abortion

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potential ramifications for the parameters of permissible abortion." Meir Abulafia and Menachem Meiri reaffirm Rashi's view. Genesis 9:6 says, "Whoever...

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