Isaac Luria

Isaac Luria

male, deceased (1572)
Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Jewish mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed: while his literary contribution...

Nahmanides

male, 815 years old
Nahmanides was a Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, Kabbalist and biblical commentator. "Nahmanides " is the common name for Moshe ben Nahman...
Moses de Leon

Moses de Leon

male, deceased (1305)
Moses de Leon (ca. 1250-1305), known in Hebrew as Moshe ben Shem-Tov, was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who is thought of as the composer or...
Yosef Karo

Yosef Karo

male, deceased (1575)
Yosef Caro (sometimes Joseph Caro was one of the most significant leaders in Rabbinic Judaism and the author of the Shulchan Arukh, an...
Bahya ben Asher

Bahya ben Asher

male, deceased (1340)
Bahye ben Asher or Bahye ben Asher ben Halawa also known as the Rabbeinu Behaye, born about the middle of the thirteenth century at Saragossa, died...
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero

male, deceased (1570)
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero or Moshe Cordevero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו) known by the acronym the Ramak (רמ"ק), was one of the most prominent schol...
Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

male, deceased (1609)
Judah Lew ben Bezalel ("Judah Loew son of Bezalel", also written as Yehudah ben Bezalel Levai [or Loew], 1525 - 17 September 1609 or 18 Elul 5369...

David Kimhi

male, deceased (1235)
David Kimhi (Hebrew: דוד קמחי, also Kimchi or Qimchi, also known by the Hebrew acronym as the RaDaK (רד"ק), was a medieval rabbi, biblical c...
Abraham Ibn Ezra

Abraham Ibn Ezra

male, deceased (1167)
Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1092 or 1093-1167), was one of the most distinguished Jewish men of letters and writers of the Middle Ages. Ibn Ezra...
Eliyahu de Vidas

Eliyahu de Vidas

male, deceased (1592)
Eliyahu di Vidas (1518-1592) was a medieval rabbi. He was a disciple of Rabbis Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (known as the "Ramak") and Isaac Luria. di...