Abarbanel, Rabbi Don Isaac

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Abarbanel, Rabbi Don Isaac: 1437-1508; Portugal, Spain and Venice; leader of Spanish Jewry and minister to the king of Spain, exiled in the expulsion of 1492; author of commentary on Torah

Don Isaac Abravanel - "The Abarbanel" (1437-1508) Book

By Nissan Mindel

Don Isaac Abravanel was one of the greatest Jewish statesmen who played an important part in European history. At the same time he was not merely a loyal and strictly religious Jew, but a great scholar, Bible commentator and philosopher. He was the last ...

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Passing of Rabbi Don Isaac Abravanel 1508 Event

Today is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the passing) of Rabbi Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), one of the leaders of Spanish Jewry at the time of the 1492 expulsion. A minister in the king's court (after having served as treasurer to the king of ...

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Sources Book

By Rabbi Joseph Ginsburg and Prof. Herman Branover; edited by Arnie Gotfryd

Abarbanel - A Torah commentator and religious philosopher (Lisbon, 1437 - Venice, 158). He was extremely involved in explaining matters of faith, especially in regard to the ultimate redemption. He served as Minster of the Treasury in the Portugese and ...

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A Peek at One Rare Passover Haggadah Gallery

One of the thousands of Passover Haggadahs in the collection of the Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library in New York is an illustrated volume published by the printing house of Meshulam Zalman Frankel in Sulzbach, Germany, in 1755. Known by scholars as the ...

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