Bahya Ibn Paquda

Bahya Ibn Paquda

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Bahya ben Joseph ibn Paquda, known to Talmud scholars (in Hebrew) as the "Rabbeinu Bechaya" ("Our Rabbi Behaya"), was a Jewish philosopher and...
Bezalel Ashkenazi

Bezalel Ashkenazi

male
Bezalel Ashkenazi, a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud, lived in the Land of Israel during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of...

Amnon Of Mainz

male
Amnon of Mainz or Amnon of Mayence is the subject of a medieval legend that became very popular. It treats of Rabbi Amnon, a wealthy and respected...

Elazar Rokeach

male, deceased (1238)
Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (ca. 1176-1238) was a leading Talmudist and kabbalist, and the last major member of the "Chassidei...
Isaac Alfasi

Isaac Alfasi

male, deceased (1103)
Sefer ha-Halachot extracts all the pertinent legal decisions from the three Talmudic orders Moed, Nashim and Nezikin as well as the tractates of...
Rabbeinu Tam

Rabbeinu Tam

male, deceased (1171)
Jacob ben Meir Tam, universally known as Rabbeinu Tam (Hebrew: רבינו תם) was one of the Baalei Tosafos whose commentary appears in every edition...

Joseph Albo

male
Joseph Albo was a rabbi who lived in Spain during the fifteenth century, known chiefly as the author of the work on the Jewish principles of faith,...
Isaac ben Samuel

Isaac ben Samuel

male
Isaac ben Samuel the Elder of Dampierre (Hebrew: יצחק הזקן בן שמואל), known as the or "Ri" (ר"י הזקן) was a French tosafist and Biblical commenta...

Gershom ben Judah

male, 1049 years old
Gershom ben Judah best known as Rabbeinu Gershom and is also commonly known by the longer title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah (Our teacher Gershom...

Ibn Tibbon

male
Ibn Tibbon, is a family of Jewish rabbis and translators that lived principally in Provence in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.