Rabbis Whose Tombs Have Become Pilgrimage Sites - Maimonides, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Baal Shem Tov, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Isaac Luria (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Maimonides, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Baal Shem Tov, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Isaac Luria, Dov Ber of Mezeritch, Nachman of Breslov, Yisroel Ber Odesser, Nathan of Breslov, Elimelech of Lizhensk, Rabbi Meir, Moses Isserles, Baba Sali, Simeon the Just, Shimon bar Yochai, Obadiah ben Abraham, Jonathan ben Uzziel, Chaim ibn Attar, Yaakov Abuhatzeira, Yeshayah Steiner, Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, Shulem Moshkovitz, Chaim Pinto, Eliezer Papo, Abraham Ben Zmirro. Excerpt: Moses ben-Maimon, called Maimonides and also known as M s ibn Maym n ( ) in Arabic, or Rambam ( " - Hebrew acronym for "Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon"), was a preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages. He was born in Cordoba, Spain on Passover Eve, 1135, and died in Egypt (or Tiberias) on 20th Tevet, December 12, 1204. He was a rabbi, physician and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt. Although his writings on Jewish law and ethics were met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews even as far off as Spain, Iraq and Yemen, and he rose to be the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, there were also respectful critics of some of his rulings and other writings particularly in Spain. Nevertheless, he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history, his copious work a cornerstone of Jewish scholarship. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah still carries canonical authority as a codification of Talmudic law. In the Yeshiva world he is known as "haNesher haGadol" (the great eagle) in recognition of his outstanding status as a bona fide exponent of the Oral Torah. His full Arabic name is Ab Imr n M s bin Maim n bin Ubaidall h al-Qur ub ( ) or M s ibn Maym n (Arabic: ...