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  • Joseph ben Simeon Kara (c. 1065 – c. 1135) (Hebrew: יוסף בן שמעון קרא), also known as Mahari Kara, was a French Bible exegete who was born and lived in...
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  • 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...
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    order from oldest to youngest: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin. Jacob was known to display...
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  • 13th century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany Simeon Kara, 11th century rabbi and Joseph's father Isaac of Chernigov, 12th century exegete Eleazar...
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  • Simeon ben Zemah Duran, also Tzemach Duran (1361–1444; Hebrew: שמעון בן צמח דוראן), known as Rashbatz (רשב"ץ) or Tashbatz, was a prominent Jewish scholar...
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  • scholarly French Jewish family. His brother was Simeon Kara and his nephew, whom he taught, was Joseph Kara. In his early years, Menahem studied in Provence...
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    Nachmanides (redirect from Moses Ben Nahman)
    Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...
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    other commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abraham ibn Ezra. Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Retrieved...
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  • Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon the Great, (Hebrew: שמעון בן יצחק; c. 950 - c. 1020) was...
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    Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא‎ ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע‎; Arabic: إبراهيم...
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    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...
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  • Gaon, Alfasi, Maimonides, Elijah ben Menahem, Gershom ben Judah, Jacob of Orleans, Jacob of Corbeil, Joseph Kara, Joseph Bekor Shor, Yom-Tov of Joigny,...
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    Bahyā ibn Pāqudā (Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda, Pekudah, Bakuda; Judeo-Arabic: בחיי אבן פקודה, Arabic: بهية بن فاقودا), c. 1050–1120, was a Jewish philosopher...
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  • second half of the 18th century. He studied under Joseph ben Samuel, hazzan of Halych, and David ben Shalom ha-Zaken, and at an early age became proficient...
    5 KB (615 words) - 04:23, 27 September 2023
  • attribution is Judaism, as in “Rabbi Zeriqa said: Rabbi Ammi said: Rabbi Simeon ben Laqish said:...” What was different was that once adopted in Islam the...
    14 KB (1,772 words) - 06:00, 30 September 2024
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    Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי‎‎; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized: Yahūḏa...
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  • father of Abraham ben Joseph of Orleans and Saadia Bekhor Shor. Joseph was a pupil of Jacob Tam, Joseph Kara, and Rashbam. That "Joseph Bekhor Shor" and...
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  • generation of Rabbeinu Gershom ben Judah and many of them were described as "Hasidim" (Pious). He was a grandson of Rav Joseph ben Simeon the Elder of Le Mans....
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  • Aharon ben Joseph haLevi (Hebrew: אהרון הלוי‎; c. 1235 – c. 1303), known by his Hebrew acronym Ra'AH (רא"ה‎), was a medieval rabbi, Talmudic scholar and...
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    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,...
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