The descendant of men learned in rabbinic lore, Abba Mari devoted himself to the study of theology and philosophy, and made himself acquainted with the writings of Moses Maimonides and Nachmanides as well as with the Talmud.

On the expulsion of the Jews from France by Philip IV in 1306, Abba Mari settled at Perpignan, where he published the letters connected with the controversy.

He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.

Abba Mari moved to Montpellier, where, to his chagrin, he found the study of rabbinical lore greatly neglected by the young, who devoted all of their time and zeal to science and philosophy.

Abba Mari possessed considerable Talmudic knowledge and some poetical talent ; but his zeal for the Law made him an agitator and a persecutor of all the advocates of liberal thought.

Ben Adret, while reluctant to interfere in the affairs of other congregations, was in perfect accord with Abba Mari as to the danger of the new rationalistic systems, and advised him to organize the conservative forces in defense of the Law.

Abba Mari, through Ben Adret's aid, obtained allies eager to take up his cause, among whom were Don Bonafoux Vidal of Barcelona and his brother, Don Crescas Vidal, then in Perpignan.

Consequently, Abba Mari removed first to Arles, and, within the same year, to Perpignan, where he finally settled and disappeared from public view.

Abba Mari collected the correspondence and added to each letter a few explanatory notes.

As the three cardinal doctrines of Judaism, Abba Mari accentuates: ( 1 ) That of the recognition of God's existence and of His absolute sovereignty, eternity, unity, and incorporeality, as taught in revelation, especially in the Decalogue ; ( 2 ) that of the world's creation by Him out of nothing, as evidenced particularly by the Sabbath ; ( 3 ) that of the special providence of God, as manifested in the Biblical miracles.

In the preface, Abba Mari explains his object in collecting the correspondence ; and in the treatise which follows he shows that the study of philosophy, useful in itself as a help toward the acquisition of the knowledge of God, requires great caution, lest we be misled by the Aristotelian philosophy or its false interpretation, as regards the principles of creation ex nihilo and divine individual providence.

In letter 131, Abba Mari mourns the death of Ben Adret, and in letter 132 he sends words of sympathy to the congregation of Perpignan, on the death of Don Vidal Shlomo ( the Meiri ) and Rabbi Meshullam.

Letter 33 contains the statement of Abba Mari that two letters which he desired to insert could not be discovered by him.

In the Sefer ha-Yarḥi, Abba Mari refers to the great caution shown by the rabbis of old as regards the teaching of the mysteries of philosophy, and recommended by men like the Hai Gaon, Maimonides, and David Kimhi.

A response of Abba Mari on a ritual question is contained in MS. Ramsgate, No. 136 ; and Zunz ( Literaturgeschichte der Synagogalen Poesie, p. 498 ), mentions a ḳinah composed by Abba Mari.

At the close of the work are added several eulogies written by Abba Mari on Ben Adret ( who died in 1310 ), and on Don Vidal, Solomon of Perpignan, and Don Bonet Crescas of Lunel.

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Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli ( c. 1194 – 1256 ) was a translator of Arabic texts to Hebrew.

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The successors of Maimonides, from the 13th to the 15th century — Nahmanides, Abba Mari ben Moses, Simon ben Zemah Duran, Joseph Albo, Isaac Arama, and Joseph Jaabez — narrowed his 13 articles to three core beliefs: Belief in God ; in Creation ( or revelation ); and in providence ( or retribution ).

Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Simson Anatoli is generally regarded as a pioneer in the application of the Maimonidean Rationalism to the study of Jewish texts.

There are many anecdotes of the annoyances and indignities the scholars had to suffer at the hands of the exilarchs ' servants 67b, the case of Amram the Pious ; Avodah Zarah 38b, of Hiyya of Parwa ; Shabbat 121b, of Abba ben Marta.

He induced his relative Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon to support the Maimonidean party by pointing out that the anti-Maimonideans were the opponents of his grandfather Samuel ibn Tibbon and his grandfather's son-in-law, Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson ben Anatoli.

R. Judah ben Bathyra ordered a silken garment from him, but refused to take it after Abba had procured it, and when the latter asked him the reason of his refusal, R. Judah answered, " The commission was only a spoken word, and was not sufficient to make the transaction binding.

Ḥiyya had several brothers: R. Nathanha-Kohen, also known as R. Kohen ( or R. Nathan ) b. Abba ; Rabbannai, or R. Bannai ; and R. Simeon ben Abba.

Abba Jose ben Hanan said that God made a horn grow out of Caine.

In the Talmud, Rabbi Joshua interpreted that they petitioned first the assembly, then the chieftains, then Eleazar, and finally Moses, but Abba Chanan said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer that Zelophehad's daughters stood before all of them as they were sitting together.

Saint Moses the Black ( Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲥⲏ ) ( 330 – 405 ), ( also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian and the Strong ) was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father.

A different story of Abba ( Father ) Moses ' death is related in The Paradise of the Holy Fathers: 31.

Abba Poemen said: Abba Moses asked Abba Zechariah a question when he was about to die, and said unto him, " Father, is it good that we should hold our peace?

" And at the time of his death, whilst Abba Isidore was sitting with him, Abba Moses looked up to heaven, and said, " Rejoice and be glad, O my son Zechariah, for the gates of heaven have been opened.

Non-Biblical writings Include: Nagara Muse ( The Conversation of Moses ), Mota Aaron ( Death of Aharon ), Mota Muse ( Death of Moses ), Te ' ezaza Sanbat ( Precepts of Sabbath ), Arde ' et ( Students ), Gorgorios, Mäṣḥafä Sa ' atat ( Book of Hours ), Abba Elias ( Father Elija ), Mäṣḥafä Mäla ' əkt ( Book of Angels ), Mäṣḥafä Kahan ( Book of Priest ), Dərsanä Abrəham Wäsara Bägabs ( Homily on Abraham and Sarah in Egypt ), Gadla Sosna ( The Acts of Susanna ) and Baqadāmi Gabra Egzi ' abḥēr ( In the Beginning God Created ).

Among the notable Desert Fathers and Mothers with sayings in the book, in addition to Anthony, were Abba Arsenius, Abba Poemen, Abba Macarius of Egypt, Abba Moses the Black, and Amma Syncletica of Alexandria.

* Abba Moses, " Sit in thy cell and thy cell will teach thee all.

In the spring of 1920, at another Hashomer Hatzair conference in Lviv, Abba read publicly for the first time the words to his poem " In the Galil, at Tel Hai " inspired by the courage of Joseph Trumpeldor at Tel Hai.

Joseph Jacobs, in the Jewish Encyclopedia article mentioned, notes that the transition from the triennial to the annual reading of the Law and the transference of the beginning of the cycle to the month of Tishri are attributed by Sándor Büchler to the influence of Abba Arika, also known as " Rab ," or " Rav ," ( 175 – 247 CE ), a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, and who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud:

Abba Arikka ( 175 – 247 ) ( Talmudic Aramaic: ; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רבי אבא בר איבו ) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora ( commentator on the Oral Law ) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud.

On one occasion, when his senior colleagues, Ḥiyya b. Abba, Rav Ammi, and Assi, had punished a certain woman, and feared the wrath of the proconsul, Abbahu was deputed to intercede for them.

While lecturing in different towns, he met R. Ḥiyya b. Abba, who was lecturing on intricate halakic themes.

251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

Part of the reason that Hayek stressed the knowledge problem was also because he was mainly concerned with debating the proposal for Market Socialism and the Lange Model by Oskar R. Lange ( 1938 ) and Hayek's student Abba Lerner ( 1934, 1937, 1938 ), which was developed in response to the calculation argument.

Upon his arrival in London, Hayek was quickly recognized as one of the leading economic theorists in the world, and his development of the economics of processes in time and the coordination function of prices inspired the ground-breaking work of John Hicks, Abba Lerner, and many others in the development of modern microeconomics.

Pachomius himself was hailed as " Abba " ( father ) which is where we get the word Abbot from.

After heavy lobbying by Levinger, the settlement gained the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by Abba Eban and Pinhas Sapir.

Their musical style at this time was varied, approximately described as " a cross between Abba and The Fall ".

Boyd Rice was influenced by the music of Lesley Gore and Abba.

Its elaboration, based on the dialect of Maiduguri, was carried out by the Orthography Committee of the Kanuri Language Board, under the Chairmanship of Abba Sadiq, Waziri of Borno.

Abba Eban (, born Abba Solomon Meir ; later adopted Aubrey Solomon Eban ; 2 February 1915 – 17 November 2002 ) was an Israeli diplomat and politician.