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  • Thumbnail for Judah Halevi
    Judah haLevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎, romanized: Yəhūḏā ben Šəmūʾēl halLēvī; Arabic: أبو الحسن يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Abū-l-Ḥasan...
    32 KB (4,102 words) - 23:34, 5 January 2025
  • rationalistic method pursued by the new school of Maimonists (including Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim of Villefranche, near the town of Perpignan, and Jacob Anatolio)...
    12 KB (1,813 words) - 04:39, 14 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
    important were Elijah de Vidas, Abraham Galante, Moses Galante, Hayyim Vital, Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi Berukhim, Elazar ben Moshe Azikri[1], Samuel Gallico...
    12 KB (1,414 words) - 12:41, 19 December 2024
  • Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw (also known as Benjamin ben Abraham Anav) was a Roman Jewish liturgical poet, Talmudist, and commentator of the thirteenth century...
    6 KB (810 words) - 02:38, 15 June 2024
  • "Batte ha-Nefesh" of Levi ben Abraham; (4) comments on Genesis. His students included Nathanael ben Nehemiah Caspi, Jacob ben Chayyim Comprat Vidal Farissol...
    2 KB (174 words) - 00:30, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avraham Gombiner
    Poland during the seventeenth century. His full name is Avraham Abele ben Chaim HaLevi from the town of Gombin. There are texts that list his family name...
    9 KB (1,145 words) - 04:12, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zohar
    be from an earlier date. Abraham Zacuto's 1504 work Sefer Yuhasin (first printed 1566) quotes from the Kabbalist Isaac ben Samuel of Acre's 13th century...
    62 KB (8,049 words) - 19:31, 4 January 2025
  • grandfather of Carlo Levi Leone Wollemborg (1859–1932), politician and former Minister of Economy Samuel Aboab (1610–1694), prominent rabbi Aaron ben Gershon abu...
    23 KB (2,461 words) - 20:34, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Maggid
    Edel of Slonim, author of "Afiqe Yehudah," sermons (Lemberg, 1802); Chayyim Abraham Katz of Moghilef, author of "Milchama ve-Shalom" (Shklov, 1797); Ezekiel...
    22 KB (3,092 words) - 08:49, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meshulach
    approbation to Yad Mal’akhi) 1770. Abraham Solomon Zalmon: Europe: 61  1772. Abraham Segre: Germany: 25  1773. Raphael Chayyim Isaac Carregal: West Indies and...
    8 KB (883 words) - 11:11, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Names of God in Judaism
    Hebrew words chayyim (חיים, 'life') or betulim (בתולים, 'virginity'). If understood this way, Elohim means 'divinity' or 'deity'. The word chayyim is similarly...
    63 KB (6,597 words) - 03:58, 28 December 2024
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    (1848): Abraham ben Aryeh Loeb Schick's. Yad Yosef, Etz Yosef, Anaf Yosef (before 1867): Enoch Zundel ben Joseph's three commentaries. Or haChayyim (1883):...
    10 KB (1,090 words) - 23:11, 24 December 2024
  • and philanthropist N.J. Dawood, translator of Koran Hakham Yosef Chayyim of Baghdad, "Ben Ish Chai" Yitzchak Kadouri, rabbi and kabbalist Yitzhak Yamin,...
    21 KB (2,092 words) - 03:27, 5 January 2025
  • is still a valuable historical source. Chayyim ben Samuel (author of the "Tzeror ha-Chayyim"), Shem-T'ob ben Isaac Shaprut (philosopher and apologist)...
    9 KB (1,273 words) - 17:47, 20 July 2024
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    Haim Palachi (redirect from Chayyim Palaggi)
    Galante index cited. Specifically, it names Nissim ben Abraham ben Haim and Nissim ben Isaac (ben Jacob and brother of Haim), but the other two mentions...
    36 KB (3,338 words) - 02:42, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shmelke of Nikolsburg
    kabbalistic commentaries on the Talmudic tractates Bava Batra and Orach Chayyim. In 1766, he became the Chief Rabbi of Sieniawa, where he was followed...
    11 KB (1,271 words) - 04:28, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Micah Joseph Lebensohn
    October 2021. Murray, Christopher John, ed. (2013). "Lebensohn, Abraham (Dov Ber ben Chayyim), 1789–1878, and Micah Joseph, 1828–1852". Encyclopedia of the...
    17 KB (1,534 words) - 12:57, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smoking in Jewish law
    Alkalai, "Zekor le-Abraham," i. 142-143, Salonica, 1798 Darchei No'am No. 9, Venice, 1698 See Be'er Heitev, to Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayyim 514:1 Leket ha-Kemah...
    14 KB (1,734 words) - 03:54, 12 November 2024
  • Deuteronomy P. vol. 2 p. 812 and 316 In Numbers col. 2 p. 976 Or HaChayyim, Genesis 49:28; Or HaChayyim, Numbers 3:45 Ithamar HaKohen "Semuchim L'ad" p. 10a Jonathan...
    18 KB (2,359 words) - 11:42, 25 October 2024
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    supposed to be observed on the 14th of Adar; later, however, Rabbi Joshua ben Levi (3rd century CE) prescribed that the Megillah should also be read on the...
    94 KB (10,259 words) - 15:41, 22 December 2024
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