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111Shem Tov ben Abraham ibn Gaon — (1283 ca. 1330) (Hebrew: שם טוב בן אברהם אבן גאון) was a Spanish Talmudist and kabbalist. Biography Shem Ṭob was born at Soria, Spain. From his genealogy given in the preface to his Keter Shem Ṭob, Azulai ( Shem ha Gedolim, ii., s.v. Keter Shem… …
112Moses Botarel — was a Spanish scholar who lived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was a pupil of Jacob Sefardi (the Spaniard), who instructed him in the Kabbala. Moses studied medicine and philosophy; the latter, he regarded as a divine science which …
113Meir ibn Aldabi — (Hebrew: מאיר אבן אלדבי) was a writer of the 14th century, son of Isaac Aldabi, He Ḥasid (The Pious), grandson of Asher ben Jehiel, and a descendant of the exiles from Jerusalem. His name (erroneously spelled Albadi, Albalidi, Alrabi, and Altabi) …
114Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez — (also Yaavetz ) (15th century 16th century) was a Spanish Jewish theologian. He lived for a time in Portugal, where he associated with Joseph Hayyun, who inspired him with that taste for mysticism which he subsequently displayed in his writings.… …
115Stanislas de Guaita — (6 April 1861, Tarquimpol, Moselle 19 December 1897) was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. He was very celebrated and successful in his time. He was an… …
116Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah — (17th century) was a Portuguese kabalist and physician. He received a medical training in his native country as a Marano, but fled about 1619 to Safed and devoted himself to the Talmud and the casuists ( poseḳim ) until 1625; then he went to… …
117Moses Galante (the Elder) — (d. 1608 in Safed) (Hebrew: משה בן מרדכי גאלאנטי), son of Mordecai, was born about the middle of the 16th century. He was a disciple of Joseph Caro, and was ordained by him when but twenty two years of age. He wrote sermons for a wedding, for… …
118Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin — (ca. 1660–ca. 1746) was a Lithuanian rabbi, kabalist, and chronicler. He was a descendant of Solomon Luria, and traced his genealogy back through Rashi to the tanna Johanan ha Sandlar. He was rabbi of Glusk, government of Minsk, until 1711, when… …
119Judah ibn Verga — (Hebrew: יהודה אבן וירגה) was a Spanish historian, kabalist, perhaps also mathematician, and astronomer, of the 15th century, born at Seville. He is supposed to have been the grandfather (by Eliakim Carmoly, Revue Orientale, ii. 98, the father)… …
120Alphabet of Akiba ben Joseph — Rabbinic Literature Talmudic literature Mishnah • Tosefta Jerusalem Talmud • Babylonian Talmud Minor tractates Halakhic Midrash Mekhilta de Rabbi Yishmael (Exodus) Mekhilta de Rabbi Shimon (Exodus) Sifra (Leviticus) Sifre (Numbers Deuteronomy)… …
