Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 49 relations: Abraham ben David, Aramaic, Berakhot (tractate), Catalonia, Eliakim Carmoly, Ezra Malki, France, Gemara, Girona, Hachmei Provence, Halakha, Heinrich Gross (rabbi), Hullin, Isaac Alfasi, Izhar, Jacob, Jonah ibn Janah, Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon, Kehath, Leopold Zunz, Leser Landshuth, Levi, Lunel, Hérault, Maimonides, Meshullam ben Jacob, Midrash, Moed, Moritz Steinschneider, Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi, Nachmanides, Narbonne, Nashim, Nezikin, Niddah, Piyyut, Poetry, Provence, Rabbi, Rabbinic Judaism, Rashi, Samuel, Samuel ben Isaac ha-Sardi, Samuel ibn Tibbon, Samuel Joseph Fuenn, Shechita, Spain, Talmud, Torah, Vauvert.

2. 12th-century Catalan rabbis
3. Rabbis from Girona

Abraham ben David

Abraham ben David (– 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal rabbi, an important commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi (known by the abbreviation RIF) and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key links in the chain of Jewish mystics.

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Aramaic

Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

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Berakhot (tractate)

Berakhot (Brakhot, lit. "Blessings") is the first tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Eliakim Carmoly

Eliakim Carmoly (5 August 1802 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, France – 15 February 1875 in Frankfurt) was a French scholar.

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Ezra Malki

Ezra Malki was rabbi of Rhodes in the seventeenth century; he was brother-in-law of Hezekiah de Silva, the author of "Peri Ḥadash." Malki was the author of "Malki ba-Ḳodesh" (Salonica, 1749).

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gemara

The Gemara (also transliterated Gemarah, or in Yiddish Gemore) is an essential component of the Talmud, comprising a collection of rabbinical analyses and commentaries on the Mishnah and presented in 63 books.

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Girona

Girona (Gerona) is the capital city of the province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers.

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Hachmei Provence

Hachmei Provence refers to the hekhamim, "sages" or "rabbis," of Provence, now Occitania in France, which was a great center for Rabbinical Jewish scholarship in the times of the Tosafists.

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Halakha

Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.

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Heinrich Gross (rabbi)

Heinrich Gross, written also as Henri Gross (born Szenicz, Hungarian Kingdom, now Senica, Slovakia, 6 November 1835; died 1910), was a German rabbi.

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Hullin

Hullin or Chullin (translit lit. "Ordinary" or "Mundane") is the third tractate of the Mishnah in the Order of Kodashim and deals with the laws of ritual slaughter of animals and birds for meat in ordinary or non-consecrated use (as opposed to sacred use), and with the Jewish dietary laws in general, such as the laws governing the prohibition of mixing of meat and dairy.

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Isaac Alfasi

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (إسحاق الفاسي, ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was a Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of halakha - Jewish law).

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Izhar

According to the Torah, Izhar was the father of Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri, and was a son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, consequently being the brother of Amram and uncle of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses. Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona and Izhar are Levites.

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Jacob

Jacob (Yaʿqūb; Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Jonah ibn Janah

Jonah ibn Janah (Yōnāh ībn Janāḥ) or ibn Janach, born Abū al-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ (أبو الوليد مروان بن جناح),, was a Jewish rabbi, physician and Hebrew grammarian active in al-Andalus (Muslim-ruled Spain).

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Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon (1120 – after 1190) was a translator and physician.

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Kehath

According to the Torah, Kehath (קְהָת, Qəhāṯ) or Kohath was the second of the sons of Levi and the patriarchal founder of the Kehathites, one of the four main divisions of the Levites in biblical times. Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona and Kehath are Levites.

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Leopold Zunz

Leopold Zunz (יום טוב צונץ—Yom Tov Tzuntz, ליפמן צונץ—Lipmann Zunz; 10 August 1794 – 17 March 1886) was the founder of academic Judaic Studies (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual.

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Leser Landshuth

Leser Landshuth (15 January 1817 – 23 March 1887) was a German Jewish liturgiologist.

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Levi

Levi was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam.

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Lunel, Hérault

Lunel (Provençal: Lunèl) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.

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Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.

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Meshullam ben Jacob

Meshullam son of Jacob (or Meshullam HaKohen ben Ya'akov) also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam hagodol (Rabbi Meshullem the great) was a Franco-Jewish Talmudist of the twelfth century CE.

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Midrash

Midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; מִדְרָשִׁים or midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.

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Moed

Moed (מועד, "Festivals") is the second Order of the Mishnah, the first written recording of the Oral Torah of the Jewish people (also the Tosefta and Talmud).

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Moritz Steinschneider

Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816 – 24 January 1907) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist.

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Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi

Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi (Also known as Moses Halavi or ha-Lawi or simply, Allawi) flourished about the mid-12th century and was a prominent Provençal rabbi, philosopher, and talmudist. Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona and Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi are Levites.

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Nachmanides

Moses ben Nachman (מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (Ναχμανίδης Nakhmanídēs), and also referred to by the acronym Ramban and by the contemporary nickname Bonastruc ça Porta (literally "Mazel Tov near the Gate", see), was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator. Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona and Nachmanides are rabbis from Girona.

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Narbonne

Narbonne (Narbona; Narbo; Late Latin:Narbona) is a commune in Southern France in the Occitanie region.

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Nashim

__notoc__ Nashim (נשים "Women" or "Wives") is the third order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud) containing family law.

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Nezikin

Nezikin (נזיקין Neziqin, "Damages") or Seder Nezikin ("The Order of Damages") is the fourth Order of the Mishna (also the Tosefta and Talmud).

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Niddah

A niddah (or nidah; נִדָּה), in traditional Judaism, is a woman who has experienced a uterine discharge of blood (most commonly during menstruation), or a woman who has menstruated and not yet completed the associated requirement of immersion in a mikveh (ritual bath).

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Piyyut

A piyyut or piyut (plural piyyutim or piyutim, פִּיּוּטִים / פיוטים, פִּיּוּט / פיוט; from Greek ποιητής poiētḗs "poet") is a Jewish liturgical poem, usually designated to be sung, chanted, or recited during religious services.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Provence

Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

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Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

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Rabbinic Judaism

Rabbinic Judaism (יהדות רבנית|Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Rabbanite Judaism, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud.

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Rashi

Shlomo Yitzchaki (רבי שלמה יצחקי; Salomon Isaacides; Salomon de Troyes; 13 July 1105), commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.

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Samuel

Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Bible, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although the text does not mention him by name).

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Samuel ben Isaac ha-Sardi

Samuel ben Isaac Ha-Sardi (Hebrew: שמואל בן יצחק סרדי) was a Spanish rabbi who flourished in the first half of the 13th century.

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Samuel ibn Tibbon

Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon (1150 – c. 1230), more commonly known as Samuel ibn Tibbon (שמואל בן יהודה אבן תבון, ابن تبّون), was a Jewish philosopher and doctor who lived and worked in Provence, later part of France.

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Samuel Joseph Fuenn

Samuel Joseph Fuenn (15 October 1818 – 11 January 1891), also known as Rashi Fuenn and Rashif, was a Lithuanian Hebrew writer, scholar, printer, and editor.

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Shechita

In Judaism, shechita (anglicized:; שחיטה;; also transliterated shehitah, shechitah, shehita) is ritual slaughtering of certain mammals and birds for food according to kashrut.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Talmud

The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Vauvert

Vauvert (Vauverd) is a commune in the far south of the Gard department in southern France.

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See also

12th-century Catalan rabbis

• Abraham bar Hiyya
• Azriel of Gerona
• Judah ben Barzillai
• Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona

Rabbis from Girona

• Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi
• Aharon HaLevi
• Azriel of Gerona
• Nachmanides
• Nissim of Gerona
• Yonah Gerondi
• Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerachiah_ha-Levi_of_Girona

Also known as Baal Ha-Maor, Baal HaMaor, Baal HaMeor, Ha-Ma'or, Zerachiah Gerondi, Zerachiah Ha-Levi Gerondi, Zerachiah HaLevi, Zerachiah ben Isaac Ha-Levi Gerondi, Zerachiah ben Isaac ha-Levi of Girona, Zerachiah of Girona, Zerachya ben Yitzhak Halevi of Lunel, Zerahiah Gerondi, Zerahiah ben Isaac Ha-Levi Gerondi, Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi, Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Saladin, Zerahiah ha-Levi, Zerahiah ha-Levi Gerondi.