Lamdan (
Hebrew: למדן) is a late
Hebrew expression for a man who is well informed in
rabbinical
Rabbinic Judaism ( he, יהדות רבנית, Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Judaism espoused by the Rabbanites, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian ...
literature, although not a scholar in the technical sense of the term - i.e. "
talmid hakham
''Talmid Chakham'' is an honorific title which is given to a man who is well versed in Jewish law, i. e., a Torah scholar. Originally he, תלמיד חכמים ''Talmid Chakhamim'', lit., "student of sages", pl. תלמידי חכמים ''talmid ...
"; it does not seem to have been used before the 18th century.
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Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen (1670-1749) decided that rabbinical scholars were exempt from paying
taxes even though scholars then were not scholars in the proper sense of the word, "for the law does not make a difference between lamdan and lamdan".
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Jacob Emden speaks of
Baer Kohen
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Baer
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* Arthur "Bugs" Baer (1886–1969), American journalist and humorist
* Buddy Baer (1915–1986 ...
(Berent Salomon), the founder of the Klaus in
Hamburg, as having been somewhat of a scholar ("ketzat lamdan," the equivalent of the
Yiddish
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"ein stückel lamden").
*Authorities of the sixteenth century, when they have to speak of the difference between a scholar in the technical sense of the word and a well-informed man, do not use the term "lamdan," but say "tzurba me-rabbanan", צורְבָא מֵרָבּנן, literally "enflamed from
Rabbinic literature".
[see ]Joshua Falk
Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk (1555 – 29 March 1614) was a Polish Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the ''Drisha'' and ''Prisha'' commentaries on the ''Arba'ah Turim'' as well as ''Sefer Me'irat Enayim'' (סמ"ע) on ...
ha-Kohen in "Sefer Me'irat 'Enayim," Choshen Mishpat, 15, 4; Shabbethai ha-Kohen, ib. 1, 19, and Yoreh De'ah, 244, 11
People
Lamdan has also been adopted as a Jewish surname, see:
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Yitzhak Lamdan
References
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Orthodox rabbinic roles and titles
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