Isaac Aboab I — Not to be confused with Isaac Aboab da Fonseca or Isaac Aboab of Castile. Isaac Aboab (fl. end of the 14th century) was a Jewish Talmudic scholar. He was also known by the pen name Menorat ha Maor or Menoras HaMaor, a work which he authored … Wikipedia
ABOAB, ISAAC II — (1433–1493), rabbinical scholar. Known as the last gaon of Castile, Aboab was a disciple of isaac canpanton and head of the Toledo Yeshivah. joseph caro refers to him as one of the greatest scholars of his time. During the final years before the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ABOAB, IMMANUEL — (c. 1555–1628), protagonist of Judaism among the Crypto Jews. The little that is known about his life is derived from his major work Nomologia, and from his letters to many Crypto Jews in Western Europe. He was born in Porto into a New Christian… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Isaac Campanton — Isaac ben Jacob Campanton (1360 1463) (Hebrew: יצחק קנפנטון) was a Spanish rabbi. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of Ferran Martinez and Vicente Ferrer, when intellectual life and Talmudic erudition were on the decline among the… … Wikipedia
Aboab, Isaac — 1) (fl. 14th cent.) Spanish writer on ethics. He collected aggadic teaching and homiletical literature concerned with Jewish ethics in the Candlestick of Light. 2) (1433 93) Spanish rabbinic scholar. He is known as the last gaon of… … Dictionary of Jewish Biography
CANPANTON (Campanton), ISAAC BEN JACOB — (1360–1463), Castilian rabbi. Canpanton was the head of a yeshivah in Zamora in western Spain, among whose students were isaac de leon , isaac aboab ii , Samuel b. Abraham Valensi, and shem tov ibn shem tov . He laid down methodological rules for … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Joseph Uziel — (d. 1572, Ferrara) was an Italian scholar and rabbi. He was a pupil of Isaac Aboab of Castile, and left a responsum, which is included in the collection of Joseph di Trani (i. 39).References* … Wikipedia
YESHIVOT — The name yeshivah was applied to institutes of talmudic learning of three distinct kinds: (1) the academies in Ereẓ Israel and Babylonia in which the Mishnah was studied by the amoraim and which produced the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud (see… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Jewish philosophy — Jewish theology redirects here. Philosophy and Kabbalah are two common approaches to Jewish theology Part of a series on … Wikipedia
GUADALAJARA — GUADALAJARA, city in Castile, central Spain. A Jewish community already existed there at the time of the Visigoths, for the Jews are said to have been entrusted, by Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, with the defense of the town after the Arab conquest in 714.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
