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Ben-Abraham
ben Abraham, ben Avraham Ben-Abraham, etc. ( he, בן אברהם) is a Hebrew patronymic, which may also be a surname. It literally means "son of Abraham". It may be either of historical usage or the result of Hebraization of surnames, such as Abramovich, Abramovitz, etc. of immigrants to Israel. Notable people with the name include: *Abraham ben Abraham * Avi Ben-Abraham * Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi *David ben Abraham ha-Laban *David Raphael ben Abraham Polido * Elisha ben Avraham *Ezra ben Abraham *Hayyim ben Abraham Uziel * Isaac ben Abraham, multiple persons *Jacob ben Abraham Kahana *Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq * Jacob ben Abraham Faitusi *Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi *Joseph ben Abraham *Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla *Mazhir ben Abraham *Meir ben Abraham Angel *Moses ben Avraham Avinu *Moshe ben Avraham of Przemyśl *Nathan ben Abraham I *Nissan Ben-Avraham * Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro * Saadia ben Abraham Longo *Samson ben Abraham of Sens *Samuel ben Abraham Aboab *Sar S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avi Ben-Abraham
Avi Ben-Abraham is an Israeli-American scientist, member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Politics In 1999, Ben-Abraham was endorsed by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and won the primaries for a top seat on the governing Likud party list of candidates for the Knesset. He was elected member of the Likud's party central committee, and was appointed as a senior adviser to Israel's Minister of Justice. Ben-Abraham served as commissioner, Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation of the State Bar of California. In that capacity he interviewed and evaluated hundreds of judges and several justices of the California Supreme Court. Appointed by the Governor and by the State Bar of California, Ben-Abraham received his security clearance from the California Department of Justice and the FBI. He was sworn in by Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas. AlHew Human Cloning In 2001 Ben-Abraham, along with Panayiotis Zavos, a reproductive physiologist, and Seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissan Ben-Avraham
Nissan Ben-Avraham ( he, ניסן בן אברהם; born Nicolau Aguiló December 11, 1957) is a Spanish sephardic rabbi who is descended from the Xueta, or forcibly converted, Jews of Majorca, Spain. Biography Ben-Avraham was born in Palma de Mallorca, on the island of Majorca, Spain. His given name at birth was Nicolau Aguiló. After learning from his mother that their Catholic family had Jewish ancestry, Ben-Avraham began attending the small conservative synagogue in Palma. He travelled to Israel to learn more about Jewish history and Judaism, and converted to Judaism in 1978 under the auspices of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He then studied at the Mercaz HaRav and Ateret Cohanim yeshivas. Ben-Abraham's 1991 Semikhah was the first time in many centuries that a Marrano received this ordination. In 2010, he returned to Spain as an emissary of Shavei Israel, an NGO that reaches out to the descendants of Jews. He will spend time in the communities of Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John). Origins of terms The usual noun and adjective in English is ''patronymic'', but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside ''patronym''. The first part of the word ''patronym'' comes from Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' "father" ( GEN πατρός ''patros'' whence the combining form πατρο- ''patro''-); the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα ''onyma'', a variant form of ὄνομα ''onoma'' "name". In the form ''patronymic'', this stands with the addition of the suffix -ικός (''-ikos''), which was originally used to form adjectives with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonah Ben Abraham Gerondi
Rabbi Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi ( he, יוֹנָה בֶּן־אַבְרָהָם גִירוֹנְדִי ''Yōnāh bēn-ʾAvrāhām Gīrōndī'', "Jonah son of Abraham the Gironan"; died 1264), also known as Jonah of Girona and Rabbeinu Yonah (), was a Catalan rabbi and moralist, cousin of Nahmanides. He is most famous for his ethical work ''The Gates of Repentance'' ( he, שערי תשובה). Biography Much of what is known about his life comes from a responsum by Solomon ben Simon Duran, one of his descendants. Jonah Gerondi came from Girona, in Catalonia (present-day Spain). He was the most prominent pupil of Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, the leader of the opponents of Maimonides' philosophical works, and was one of the signers of the ban proclaimed in 1233 against '' The Guide for the Perplexed'' and the ''Sefer ha-Madda''. According to his pupil, Hillel ben Samuel, Gerondi was the instigator of the public burning of Maimonides' writings by order of the aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sar Shalom Ben Abraham
Sar Shalom ben Abraham ( Hebrew: שר שלום בן אברהם) was the head of the remnant of the Palestinian Gaonate in Damascus around the end of the 12th century. Details Sar Shalom was the son of Abraham ben Mazhir, the Gaon in Damascus. Sar Shalom first appears in a poem of Isaac Ibn Ezra ( he) from 1142 dedicated to Sar Shalom's father that mentions his four children, including Sar Shalom.The poem is availablhere his name is mentioned on line six When Benjamin of Tudela visited Damascus in around 1168 he found Sar Shalom as Av Beit Din The ''av beit din'' ( ''ʾabh bêth dîn'', "chief of the court" or "chief justice"), also spelled ''av beis din'' or ''abh beth din'' and abbreviated ABD (), was the second-highest-ranking member of the Sanhedrin during the Second Temple period, ... and his brother Ezra ben Abraham, Ezra as Gaon. A letter from the Iraqi Gaon Samuel ben Ali from 1191 mentions Sar Shalom as Av Beit Din. Scholars debate how to interpret the letter. Assaf, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Ben Abraham Aboab
Rabbi Samuel ben Abraham Aboab ( Hebrew: רבי שמואל בן אברהם אבוהב; – August 22, 1694) also known by his acronym RaSHA (רש"א, Rabbi Shmuel ben Avraham) was a 17th-century Western Sephardic rabbi and scholar, who is considered to be one of the greatest rabbinic sages of Italy. He served as the av bet din of Venice, where he rose to great prominence due to his vast knowledge of rabbinic literature. He is known for being an adamant opponent of the Sabbatean movement, and an early supporter of the old Yishuv. Biography Born into the Aboab family in Hamburg, Germany in 1610. His father Abraham Aboab V, was a former Crypto-Jew and founding father of the Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg. At age 13, Rabbi Samuel was sent by his father to study in Venice under Rabbi David Franco, whose daughter, Mazzal-Tov Franco he later married at age eighteen. He was soon appointed Chief Rabbi of Verona, where he garnered such a reputation for learning that disci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson Ben Abraham Of Sens
Samson ben Abraham of Sens (שמשון בן אברהם משאנץ; c. 1150 – c. 1230),was one of the leading French Tosafists in the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th centuries. He was the most outstanding student and the spiritual heir of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel ha-Zaken (the ''Ri''). He is referred also known as "the Rash" ( הר"ש; an acronym of his name) or "the Prince of Sens", and within Tosafot as "''Rashba''". Biography He was probably born in Falaise, Calvados, where his grandfather, the tosafist Samson ben Joseph, called "the Elder", lived. He studied under Rabbeinu Tam at Troyes and David ben Kalonymus of Münzenberg, and for ten years, together with his older brother R. Yitzhak (known as the "Ritzba"), attended the Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel ha-Zaken (the ''Ri'') of Dampierre, Calvados, Dampierre, after whose death he took charge of the yeshiva of Sens. The Asher ben Jehiel, Rosh said of him that only Rabbeinu Tam and Rabbi Isaac ben Samue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saadia Ben Abraham Longo
Saadia ben Abraham Longo () was a Turkish Hebrew poet, who lived in Constantinople in about the middle of the sixteenth century. A manuscript in the Bodleian Library contains a collection of Longo's poems about various subjects; letters written by him to contemporary scholars and by them to him; a poetical correspondence between Longo and David Onkeneira; and a paper entitled ''Naḥal Ḳedumim'', in prose interspersed with verse in which occur 1,000 words beginning with aleph Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac , Arabic ʾ and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez . These let ..., an arrangement similar to that which was followed in the ''Elef Alfin'' of . Some of Longo's dirges were published under the title ''Shivre Luḥot'' (Salonica, 1594). To them is prefixed a chronicle of Jewish writers and their works, entitled ''Seder Zemann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obadiah Ben Abraham Of Bertinoro
Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro ( he, ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; 1445 – 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century Italian rabbi best known for his popular commentary on the Mishnah. In his later years, he rejuvenated the Jewish community of Jerusalem and became recognised as the spiritual leader of the Jews of his generation. Arrival in the Land of Israel Obadiah was a pupil of Joseph Colon Trabotto (''Maharik''), and became rabbi in Bertinoro, a town in the modern province of Forlì-Cesena, whence he derived his by-name, and in Castello.Ginzberg (1906) in Jewish Encyclopedia. "The desire to visit the Holy Land led him to Jerusalem; and he arrived there on March 25, 1488, having commenced his journey Octber29, 1486. His advent in Palestine marked a new epoch for the Jewish community there. ... The administration of Jewish communal affairs in Jerusalem had fallen into the hands of iniquitous offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Ben Abraham I
Nathan ben Abraham, known also by the epithet ''President of the Academy'' () in the Land of Israel (died ca. 1045 – 1051), was an 11th-century rabbi and exegete of the Mishnah who lived in Ramla, in the Jund Filastin district of the Fatimid Caliphate. He was the author of the first known commentary covering the entire Mishnah. Biography A critical analysis of the time-frame in which the author of the Judeo-Arabic Mishnah commentary lived places him in the early 11th century. Assaf suggests that he was Rabbi Nathan the second, the son of Rabbi Abraham who was called ''the Pious'', a contemporary of Rabbi Abiathar, who served in the ''geonate'' of the Land of Israel in 1095 CE. This view has been rejected by more recent scholars, such as Gil (1983), Friedman (1990), Danzig (1998), Amar (2011) and Fox (1994), who put him two generations earlier. In around 1011, Nathan travelled to Qayrawan, to attend to his family inheritance, and while there he studied under the illustri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Ben Avraham Of Przemyśl
Rabbi Moshe ben Avraham of Przemyśl was a Galician rabbi; born at Przemysl about 1550; died at Opatow 1606. Surnamed Met (or Mat; he, מת, sometimes he, מאט) or in the Ashkenazi pronunciation Mes. As Rabbi Moshe is best known for his work ''Mateh Moshe'', he is also often personally referred to as the Mateh Moshe. Biography After having studied Talmud and rabbinics under his uncle R. Zvi and Shlomo Luria, he became rabbi of Belz, where he had a large number of pupils. He retired from this rabbinate and lived privately for a time at Volodymyr-Volynskyi. He was then called to the rabbinate of Przemysl, and, in 1597, to that of Lubomyl. Toward the end of his life, he became the chief of the community of Opatow and district rabbi of Cracow. He authored the following works: *''Taryag Mitzvot'' (Cracow, 1581), a versification of the 613 commandments *''Mateh Moshe'' (ib. 1590–91), a treatise on the practical ritual laws *''Ho'il Moshe'' (Prague, 1611), a simple and homilet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Ben Avraham Avinu
Moses ben Avraham Avinu (died ca. 1733/34) was a Czech- Austrian printer and author who was a Christian convert to Judaism. His father, Jacob, was also a convert. Moses was born at Nikolsburg (now Mikulov). He became a native of Prague, and was circumcised at Amsterdam. In 1686–87, he worked for two printers of Amsterdam, but from 1690 to 1694 seems to have owned a printing establishment and to have printed several Hebrew books, including his own Judeo-German translation of Hannover's ''Yewen Mezulah''. He assisted with the engravings for the 1695 Passover Haggadah, which was printed by Kosman Emrich. In 1709, Moses established a printing-office in the German town of Halle, where in 1712 he printed his ''Tela'ot Moshe'' (or "Weltbeschreibung"), a Judeo-German work on the Ten Tribes, having collected the material from a number of sources, particularly from Abraham Farissol Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol ( he, אַבְרָהָם בֵּן מֹרְדְּכַי פָרִיצו� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
