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    Leon of Modena (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה אַרְיֵה מִמּוֹדִינָא, romanized: Yəhud̲ā Aryē miModenā, 1571–1648) was a Jewish scholar born in Venice to a family whose...
    9 KB (1,222 words) - 07:01, 26 December 2024
  • of Euclid Leon of Modena (1571–1648), Venetian scholar Leon of Pella, Macedonian historian Leon of Phlius (fl. c. 620 BC), tyrant of his city Leon of...
    11 KB (1,301 words) - 15:59, 15 December 2024
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    essay by the rabbi and scholar Leon of Modena. It praises Rossi's works and makes a case for the halachic suitability of composed music in Jewish liturgy...
    13 KB (1,756 words) - 05:50, 7 November 2024
  • Modena is a city in northern Italy. Modena may also refer to: Duchy of Modena and Reggio El Modena, California Modena, Illinois Modena, Missouri Modena...
    2 KB (237 words) - 16:03, 2 October 2024
  • Daud, and Leon of Modena. Among the Geonim, Hai ben Sherira argued with Saadia Gaon in favour of gilgulim. Rabbis who believed in the idea of reincarnation...
    8 KB (1,014 words) - 19:29, 5 January 2025
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    annually during the festivals of Sukkot and Hanukkah, respectively. Notable residents of the Ghetto have included Leon of Modena, whose family originated in...
    21 KB (2,380 words) - 20:08, 24 December 2024
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    Zohar (redirect from Book of Splendour)
    by Leon of Modena (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...
    62 KB (8,049 words) - 19:31, 4 January 2025
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    Kabbalah (redirect from History of Kabbalah)
    attribution of its authorship to the tanna R. Neḥunya ben ha-Kanah and describing some of its content as truly heretical. Leon of Modena, a 17th-century...
    121 KB (14,884 words) - 01:01, 25 December 2024
  • kabbalistic literature. Fioretta's husband, Solomon of Modena, was the uncle of the scholar and rabbi Leon of Modena. Fioretta's grandson was Aaron Berechiah, a...
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    Studies, 1979), 135-153. Rivkin, Ellis (1948). "Leon da Modena and the "Kol Sakhal": III. Leon da Modena (Continued)". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 38 (4):...
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  • Sforno (family) (category Surnames of Jewish origin)
    Cuzari with the commentary of Judah Moscato (Venice, 1594). On his death a funeral sermon was pronounced by Leon of Modena, who lauded him in the highest...
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    of the liberties of Republican Venice. His writings inspired Thomas Hobbes, Edward Gibbon, and the founding fathers of the United States. Leon Modena...
    182 KB (18,592 words) - 23:56, 26 December 2024
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    Richard Simon (priest) (category Translators of the Bible into French)
    Richard Simon CO (13 May 1638 – 11 April 1712), was a French priest, a member of the Oratorians, who was an influential biblical critic, orientalist and controversialist...
    21 KB (2,721 words) - 06:48, 3 November 2024
  • Joseph ibn Tzaddik José Faur Jiddu Krishnamurti Kundakunda Lao Tzu Leon of Modena Madhvacharya Maimonides Melville Y. Stewart Mircea Eliade Moses Narboni...
    3 KB (280 words) - 02:02, 15 November 2024
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    Uriel da Costa (category Critics of Judaism)
    paraphrases in Shield and Buckler (Hebrew: מגן וצנה), a lengthy rebuttal by Leon of Modena, written in response to religious queries about da Costa posed by the...
    26 KB (2,960 words) - 11:36, 27 December 2024
  • author of the Kol Bo (15th century); and Leon of Modena (d. 1648). In addition, nearly all printed machzorim contain expositions and explanations of the...
    66 KB (9,986 words) - 13:43, 31 October 2024
  • Israel ben Moses Najara (category Year of birth uncertain)
    praised also by Leon of Modena, who composed a song in his honor, which was printed at the beginning of the Olat Shabbat, the second part of the Zemirot Yisrael...
    15 KB (1,671 words) - 19:56, 11 December 2024
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    graduating in 1613 he moved to Venice and spent a year in the company of Leon de Modena and Simone Luzzatto. From Venice he went back to Candia and from there...
    10 KB (1,338 words) - 06:40, 15 November 2024
  • Sperone Speroni Pier Angelo Manzolli Girolamo Cardano Moshe Provençal Leon of Modena Alessandro Piccolomini Bernardino Telesio Azariah dei Rossi Guglielmo...
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  • Joseph Hamekane of R. Joseph hen R. Nathan l'official, 13th century (Paris MS) The Touchstone of Ibn Shaprut Hasdai Crescas Leon of Modena The works bear...
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