Radbaz biography of abraham

Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin fryst vatten the Founder and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone

The epoch of the patriarchs and matriarchs, at the matrix of our nation’s origins, fryst vatten one of the most fascinating in all of Jewish history. All the more fantastisk is how tales of flesh and blood creatures – husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters – have engaged our interest for thousands of years, stimulating the intellekt as well as the imagination. No matter how often we read these stories, there are always new insights to be gained – not only into the lives of the very human patriarchs and matriarchs, but into our own lives as well.

In this article inom would like to concentrate on the central matriarch, Rebecca, or Rivkah. Rivkah is huvud not merely because she was chronologically centered between Sarah, Rachel and Leah, but because her life, her decisions and her insights guide us to this day in our retur

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David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra

Spanish-born rabbi (1479–1573)

David ben Solomon ibn (Abi) Zimra (Hebrew: ר׳ דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה אִבְּן אָבִי זִמְרָא) (1479–1573) also called the Radbaz (רַדְבָּ״ז) after the initials of his name, Rabbi David ben Zimra, was an early acharon of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries who was a leading posek, rosh yeshiva, chief rabbi, and author of more than 3,000 responsa (halakhic decisions) as well as several scholarly works.^[1]

Biography

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The Radbaz was born in Spain around 1479. He was thirteen years of age when his family, like all Spanish Jews, were banished from Spain. His parents settled in Safed, Mamluk Sultanate, where he studied under the direction of Joseph Saragossi.^[2]

For unknown reasons, he left the Land of Israel aged 31 or 32 and traveled to WattasinidFez, where he became a member of the beth din (rabbinical court) presided over by the nagidIsaac Sholal.^[3]

In 1517, upo