ShemTovbenAbrahamibnGaon (1283 – c. 1330) (Hebrew: שם טוב בן אברהם אבן גאון) was a Spanish Talmudist and kabbalist. ShemTov was born at Soria, Spain...
Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and...
Nissim ben Jacob (Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב), also known as Nissim Gaon (Hebrew: רבנו נסים גאון, lit. 'Our teacher Nissim the Gaon'; 990–1062), was a rabbi...
Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda (also: Pakuda, Bakuda, Hebrew: בחיי אבן פקודה, Arabic: بهية بن فاقودا), c. 1050–1120, was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who...
Abrahamben David (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abrahamben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal...
Catalan original is no longer extant; but a Hebrew translation by Joseph ibnShem-Tov, with the title ("Refutation of the Cardinal Principles of the Christians")...
Yellin and Israel Abrahams, Maimonides (1903) (full text of a biography) Y. Tzvi Langermann (2007). "Maimonides: Abū ʿImrān Mūsā [Moses] ibn ʿUbayd Allāh [Maymūn]...
Azriel ibn Menahem ibn Ibrahim al-Tarās (Arabic: عزريل بن مناحيم بن ابراهيم التاراس Azrēyl bin Mināḥīm ben Ibrāhim āl-Tārās; Hebrew: עזריאל בן מנחם בן...
Mōšeh bēn-Nāḥmān, "Our Rabbi Moses son of Nahman"). His Catalan name was Bonastruc ça Porta (also written Saporta or de Porta), literally "Mazel Tov near...
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...
Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghiyyat (or Ghayyat) (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אבן גיאת, romanized: yiṣḥaq ben yəhuḏā ibn ḡiyāṯ, Arabic: ﺇﺑﻦ غِيَاث, romanized: ibn Ghiyyāth)...
Rabbi Yom Tov of Falaise, Hebrew: יום טוב מפלייזא also called Rabbi Yom Tovben Rabbi Yehuda, was one of the 11th-century Baalei Tosafot in France. His...
Joseph ibn Migash or Joseph ben Meir HaLevi ibn Migash or Yosef Ibn Meir Ha-Levi Ibn Megas or José ben Meir ibn Megas (early 1077 – c. 1141) (Hebrew: יוסף...
guidelines in the Middle Ages. Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer was a Polish rabbi and mystical healer known as the Baal ShemTov. His teachings imbued the esoteric usage...
century German Rabbi and Posek Abrahamibn Daud, (Sefer HaKabbalah), 12th century Spanish philosopher Abrahamibn Ezra, (Ibn Ezra), 12th century Spanish-North...
Obadiah benAbraham of Bertinoro (Hebrew: ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; c. 1445 – c. 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century...
Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic...
Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as Ha-Sallaḥ ("writer of penitential prayers") (Arabic: أَبُو هَارُون مُوسَى بِن يَعْقُوب اِبْن عَزْرَا, Abu Harun Musa...
Tobiah ben Eliezer (Hebrew: טוביה בן אליעזר) was a Talmudist and poet of the 11th century, author of Lekach Tov or Pesikta Zutarta, a midrashic commentary...
many other commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abrahamibn Ezra. Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke...
acronyms similar to his son Jacob ben Asher more famous work Rimzei Ba'al ha-Turim. ʼAšer Ben Yeḥîʼel. Gedaliah ibn Jechia the Spaniard, Shalshelet Ha-Kabbalah...
in the 12th century. He was on intimate terms with Abrahamibn Ezra, who dedicated to him his Ḥai ben Meḳiẓ and mentioned eulogiously three of his sons...
that Abrahamben Isaac knew Judah personally and consulted him in difficult cases. Judah once had a controversy with his learned fellow citizen Abraham ben...
"Book of Roots") draws heavily on the earlier works of Judah ben David Hayyuj and Jonah ibn Janah, as well as from the work of his father. These two books...
Hebrew manuscripts in the French National Library in Paris a work by Shem-Tovibn Falaquera. Comparing it with a Latin work by Avicebron entitled Fons...
Abrahamben Nathan (Hebrew: אברהם בן נתן) was a Provençal rabbi and scholar of the 12th-13th centuries. Abraham was born in the second half of the 12th...