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1. Judah Ha-Levi: Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher and poet. His most famous work, the Kuzari, defended Judaism against philosophy, saying that deductive reasoning cannot replace ... [100%] 2023-02-03
2. Judah Ha-Levi: Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. 1075-1141 C.E.) was a Jewish Spanish philosopher and poet. His most famous work, the Kuzari, defended Judaism against philosophy, saying that deductive reasoning cannot replace ... [100%] 2023-02-04
3. Isaac Ben Judah Ha-Levi: French exegete and tosafist; lived at Sens, probably, in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was the pupil of Ḥayyim of Falaise, whom Gross identifies with Ḥayyim Paltiel. Isaac compiled, under the title "Pa'aneaḥ Raza," a commentary on ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [77%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
4. Mordecai Ben Judah Ha-Levi: Chief rabbi of Cairo, Egypt; preacher and Biblical commentator; flourished in the seventeenth century; died at Jerusalem. He was the author of "Darke No'am" (Venice, 1698), responsa on the four parts of the Shulḥan 'Aruk, namely: 13 on the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [77%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Brandeis, Baruch Judah (Ha-Levi): Bohemian rabbi and author; lived in the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century at Prague, where he was assistant rabbi (dayyan). He was the son of Bezaleel Brandeis, rabbi in Jung-Bunzlau, whose work ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [77%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
6. Hurwitz, Judah Ben Mordecai Ha-Levi: Russian physician and author; born at Wilna in the first half of the eighteenth century; died at Grodno Nov. He graduated in medicine from the University of Padua, traveled extensively through Europe, and settled in Wilna, where he was appointed ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. Joel B. Judah Selki Ha-Levi (Lämmel?): Author of "Dibre ha-Iggeret," a description of the sufferings of the Jews of Glogau when that town was besieged by the Prussians in the winter of 1740-41. It was published at an unknown place in 1741, but became ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [65%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
8. Abraham Aryeh Loeb B. Judah Ha-Levi: A Talmudic author and rabbi, who lived at Stryzhow (Galicia, Austria) at the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. His works, bearing the general title "Derishat Ari" (A Lion's Comment), contain: (1) "Eben Pinnah ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [65%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Edel, Judah Löw Ben Moses Ha-Levi: Russian preacher; born at Zamoscz, government of Lublin, Poland; died at Slonim 1827. He was a pupil of Elijah Wilna, and, besides possessing great homiletic talent, was a Hebraist and a Talmudic scholar. He wrote: "Safah le-Ne'emanim," a ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [65%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
10. Bezalel B. Judah Ha-Levi Of Zolkiev: Polish Talmudist of the second half of the eighteenth century. He wrote a commentary to the sayings of the fathers (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1781), entitled "Bezalel. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [65%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Rosenthal, Leon (Judah Löb B. Moses Ha-Levi): Russian financier, philanthropist, and communal worker; born in Wilna Nov., 1817; died in Locarno, Switzerland, June 19, 1887. His father was a progressive, scholarly merchant whose house was one of the rallying-points of the Haskalah movement early in the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [61%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
12. Judah Ha-Levi (Arabic, Abu Al-Ḥasan Al-Lawi): Spanish philosopher and Hebrew poet; born at Toledo, southern Castile, in the last quarter of the eleventh century; died in the Orient after 1140. If his birth is correctly assigned to 1085 or 1086 (Rapoport, in "Kerem Ḥemed," vii., it ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
13. Judah Ha-Levi Ben Shalom (Known Also Under The Name Judan): Palestinian amora of the fourth generation; flourished in the second half of the fourth century. Few halakot of his are recorded in the Jerusalem Talmud. He appears as the opponent of Hananiah in the question of the fine imposed upon ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [52%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]