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Nachmanides's letter to his son displayed on the Ramban synagogue in Jerusalem The book Iggeret ha-Kodesh (אגרת הקודש - The Holy Epistle) on the topics of marriage, holiness, and sexual relations was commonly attributed to Nachmanides, who supposedly wrote it for his son as a wedding gift.
The Ramban Synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת הרמב"ן ) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. The synagogue building dates from c. 1400 and, after the Karaite Synagogue, it is the second oldest active synagogue in Jerusalem.
Abraham Maimonides (Hebrew: אברהם בן רמב"ם; also known as Rabbeinu Avraham ben ha-Rambam, and Avraham Maimuni, June 13, 1186 [1] – December 7, 1237) was the son of Maimonides and succeeded his father as nagid of the Egyptian Jewish community.
The first known English translation of the Mishneh Torah was made in 1832 by Herman Hedwig Bernard, professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University. Bernard's work is titled The Main Principles of the Creed and Ethics of the Jews Exhibited in Selections from the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides, with A Literal English Translation, Copious Illustrations ...
In 1993, they published The Chumash: The Stone Edition, a Torah translation and commentary arranged for liturgical use. It is popularly known as The ArtScroll Chumash or The Stone Chumash and has since become the best-selling English-Hebrew Torah translation and commentary in the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. They have issued a ...
Ramban can refer to: Nachmanides (1194 – c. 1270), Catalan rabbi and philosopher also known as RaMBaN; Cave of the Ramban in Jerusalem; Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in India Ramban district, an administrative unit in India; Ramban (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem; Rambaan, 1948 Indian film; Ramabanam, 2023 Indian ...
Michael Adler (1868–1944), English Orthodox rabbi, an Anglo-Jewish historian and author who was the first Jewish military chaplain to the British Army to serve in time of war, serving with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front during the First World War
In 1811, the first version of the Bible in Malayalam, known as the Ramban Bible, was completed. This translation, titled Visudha Veda Pustakam, was composed in a hybrid language of Malayalam and Tamil. [4] [5] The Ramban Bible was printed using lithographic technology, known locally as "Kallachu," at a press in Bombay (now Mumbai). It was the ...