Simeon bar Isaac information

confused with Simeon bar Isaac, uncle of Rashi. Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon the Great...

at Troyes, Champagne, in northern France. His mother's brother was Simeon bar Isaac, rabbi of Mainz. Simon was a disciple of Gershom ben Judah, who died...

Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל;‎ 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel...

philosopher Joseph Kara, 12th century Biblical exegete. (c. 1065 – c. 1135) Simeon Kara, Joseph's father. Isaiah di Trani, 12th century Biblical exegete and...

His children were Rabbi Yehuda ben Yom Tov, the father-in-law of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel (R'I the Elder), and Rabbi Yosef. His grandson was Rabbi Judah...

Zarua" by Isaac ben Moses of Vienna, cites a responsa of Rashbam where he discussed Halakha before the elders of Paris, among them Rabbi Yehuda Bar Tov. This...

traditional account, El-hanan, or Elhanan, a Jewish boy, the son of Simeon bar Isaac (c. 950), is stolen during a Jewish Sabbath by a Christian maidservant...

Isaac the Blind (Hebrew: רַבִּי יִצְחַק סַגִּי נְהוֹר Rabbī Yīṣḥaq Saggī Nəhōr, literally "Rabbi Isaac, of much light"; c. 1160–1235 in Provence, France)...

Jacob ha-Kohen later wrote that he had traced Maimonides' descent back to Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi from the Davidic line. His ancestry, going back four generations...

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...

1519, and frequently reprinted). Nachmanides' writings in the defense of Simeon Kayyara and Alfasi also belong in the category of his Talmudic and halachic...

brothers Judah (Nos. 19, 20), Isaac (No. 21), and Moses ibn Ezra (No. 16), R. Baruch (Nos. 23, 28), Meïr ibn Migas (No. 27), Isaac Alfasi, head of the yeshiva...

produced five children. While it is believed four died early, the last-born, Isaac, became an influential poet and later convert to Islam in 1140. The conversion...

pupils from different countries, like Eleazar ben Isaac, Jacob ben Yakar, Elijah ben Menahem, and Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi. The fame of his learning eclipsed...

was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne Av Beth Din (known as the RABaD II). He was the father of R' Isaac the Blind, a Neoplatonist and important...

Germany Meshullam ben Kalonymus Gershom ben Judah (Rabbeinu Gershom) Simeon bar Isaac of Mainz Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh) Jacob ben Asher (Baal HaTurim) Mordechai...

his students were Rabbi Moses ben Abraham of Pontoise and likely also the Isaac ben Abraham of Dampierre, who later became one of the great sages of the...

Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Eric Lawee (1 February 2012). Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue. State...

as expounded in the Zohar, which he believed to have been written by Simeon bar Yohai. He did not, however, occupy himself so much with the mystical side...

Jehiel, (Rosh), (c. 1259–1327) 13th-century German-Spanish Talmudist Simeon bar Isaac, 11th century French rabbi Yom Tov of Falaise 11th-century French rabbi...

his early years, Azriel moved to southern France, where he studied under Isaac the Blind. Azriel later travelled across Spain, preaching his kabbalistic...

religious questions with the utmost freedom, and who was joined by the Spaniard Isaac Albalag and others. Opposed to these was another tendency, the chief object...

the government to appoint Isaac rabbi of Algiers. But this won for him a still more powerful enemy in the person of Simeon ben Zemah Duran, who disapproved...

ibn Pakuda, jewishencyclopedia.com article written by Kaufmann Kohler & Isaac Broydé. Rabbi Bachaya Ibn Pakuda, at OU.org The Book of Direction to the...

Buchdruckerei Louis Golde, 1909) online link. Seligsohn, M.; Kaufmann Kohler; Isaac Broydé (2002) [c. 1916]. "Levi ben Gershon". In Isidore Singer; Cyrus Adler...

known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I. His maternal grandfather was Isaac Albalia. Some scholars believe he was the Arabic-into-Latin translator known...

Simeon ben Helbo Kara was a French rabbi who lived in Mans in the 11th century; brother of Menahem ben Helbo and father of Joseph Ḳara. Isaac de Lattes...

Elhanan ben Isaac Jaffe of Dampierre (Hebrew: ר׳ אֶלְחָנָן בֶּן יִצְחָק יָפֶה מִדַּמְפְּיֵיר; d. 1184) also known as Rabbeinu Elhanan was a 12th-century...