Solomon ben Simon Duran (c. 1400 – 1467) (
Hebrew
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: שלמה בן שמעון דוראן), known as Rashbash, was a medieval rabbi with antagonistic views towards the
Kabbalah
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, and the son and successor of
Simon ben Zemah Duran.
Solomon was born in
Algiers
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, and in his youth became familiar with the
Talmud
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and rabbinical literature, and with a resoluteness remarkable for his time he protested against the
Kabbala. Like his father, he was the author of many responsa (published in Leghorn, 1742);
[Cf. reprint: ] his letter, written in the language of the Talmud, to Nathan Nagara in
Constantine
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* Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria
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* Constantine (name), a masculine g ...
has been separately reprinted, with an index of passages (''Kerem Ḥemed,'' ix.110 et seq.). His defense of the Talmud, written in 1437 against the attacks of the convert
Geronimo de Santa Fé, appeared under the title ''Milḥemet Ḥobah,'' and also the title ''Setirat Emunat ha-Noẓrim,'' after the second part of his father's ''Ḳeshet u-Magen.'' It was also published separately at Leipzig in 1856. His treatise ''Tikkun Soferim,'' which has frequently been ascribed to his father, is printed as an appendix to the work ''Yabin Shemu'ah,'' Leghorn, 1744. A dirge written by him has been preserved in manuscript.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
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David Conforte
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Biography
Conforte came of a family of scholars. His early instructors were rabbi ...
, ''Ḳore ha-Dorot,'' p. 26b;
*''Kerem Ḥemed,'' ix.114 et seq.;
*
Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi
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C. H. Hamberger, ''Historisches Wörterbuch'', p. 94;
*''Orient,'' iii.812 et seq.;
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Heinrich Grätz
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Born Tzvi Hirsch Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (no ...
, ''Gesch.,'' viii.166;
*
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* (1874–1939), Belgian pharmacologist
* Sir Gerhard Jack Zunz (1923–2018), British civil engineer
* Leopold Zunz (Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz) (1794–1886), German Reform rabbi and writer, the founder of academi ...
, ''Literaturgesch.,'' p. 1646;
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Elkan Nathan Adler
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, in ''Jew. Quart. Rev.'' xii.147
References
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1400s births
1467 deaths
People from Algiers
15th-century Algerian rabbis
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