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  • Rabbi Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen of Lunel (c. 1135 – after 1210) was a leading French tosafist. He was also known as Jonathan of Lunel, and was one of several...
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  • Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen was one of the hachmei Provence, one of a family of scholars living at Narbonne, France (not Lunel, as David Conforte and others...
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    and posek (decider in matters of halakha - Jewish law). He is best known for his work of halakha, the legal code Sefer Ha-halachot, considered the first...
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  • Isaac ha-Kohen of Narbonne, the first commentator upon the Jerusalem Talmud; Abraham ben Nathan of Lunel, author of HaManhig; Meir ben Isaac of Carcassonne...
    16 KB (2,238 words) - 03:43, 18 August 2024
  • 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 lost his first wife...
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  • Zerachiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Gerondi (Hebrew: זרחיה הלוי), called the ReZaH, RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor (author of the book Ha-Maor) was born about 1115 in the...
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    Maimonides (redirect from Moussa Ben Maimon)
    or rabbinic judge. Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen later wrote that he had traced Maimonides' descent back to Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi from the Davidic line...
    107 KB (11,735 words) - 00:16, 2 November 2024
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    Shabbat (Talmud) (category Laws of Shabbat)
    Commentaries of Rishonim who lived in the medieval kingdoms of Aragon, Provence and Narvona include the following: Rabbi Jonathan ben David ha-Kohen of Lunel (c...
    42 KB (5,779 words) - 13:09, 25 October 2024
  • of Lunel. Aharon haLevi studied under his father Joseph haLevi and brother Pinchas ben Joseph haLevi, as well as Nachmanides, and was a colleague of Shlomo...
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    Sefer ha-'Ibbur, on the calendar. Keli ha-Nechoshet, on the astrolabe. Shalosh She'elot, in answer to three chronological questions of David ben Joseph...
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  • ירחי) "of Lunel", since Hebrew "yareaḥ" is the equivalent of the French word lune "moon'. In Lunel, Abraham may have studied under Abraham ben David, but his...
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    Nachmanides (redirect from Moses Ben Nahman)
    separate edition, Berlin, 1759) Sefer ha-Zekhut, in defense of Alfasi against the criticisms of Abraham ben David (RABaD; printed with Abraham Meldola's...
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    (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן־דָּוִד הַלֵּוִי אִבְּן דָּאוּד, romanized: ʾAvrāhām ben-Dāvīd halLēvī ʾībən Dāʾūd; Arabic: ابراهيم بن داود, romanized: ʾIbrāhīm ibn...
    21 KB (3,019 words) - 03:06, 22 October 2024
  • chief training at Dampierre under Samson of Sens, Samson of Coucy, Solomon of Dreux, and Abraham ben Nathan of Lunel. Shortly after 1198 he returned to Paris...
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  • tosafists of France and the systematic science of the Spanish rabbis. The French-Italian codifiers – Aaron ha-Kohen of Lunel, Zedekiah ben Abraham, and...
    6 KB (872 words) - 12:49, 25 October 2024
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    Mishneh Torah (redirect from Yad ha-Chazaka)
    by Meir HaKohen in the form of the Haggahot Maimuniyyot. The work consists of supplemental notes to the Mishneh Torah with the objective of implanting...
    43 KB (5,697 words) - 18:54, 8 November 2024
  • the same century by Benjamin Musaphia, a physician at Hamburg, and by David ha-Kohen de Lara. Mussafia's Musaf he-'Arukh (1655), probably known also as Arukh...
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  • son of Jacob (or Meshullam HaKohen ben Ya'akov) also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam hagodol (Rabbi Meshullem the great) was a Franco-Jewish Talmudist of the...
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  • part of Terumat haDeshen, entitled Pesakim u-ketavim, contains 267 decisions largely on points of the marriage law. According to Shabbatai ha-Kohen (the...
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  • Eleazar of Worms (אלעזר מוורמייזא - also מגרמייזא of Garmiza or Garmisa) (c. 1176–1238), or Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus, also sometimes known today...
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