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.

The rationalistic method pursued by the new school of Maimonists ( including Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim of Villefranche, near the town of Perpignan, and Jacob Anatolio ) especially provoked his indignation ; for the sermons preached and the works published by them seemed to resolve the entire Scriptures into allegory and threatened to undermine the Jewish faith and the observance of the Law and tradition.

Other Jewish thinkers, such as Nahmanides, Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, and Jacob Emden, strongly object to the idea that concubines should be forbidden.

* The Sefer Mitzvot Gadol ( The " SeMaG ") of Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy ( first half of the 13th century, Coucy, Northern France ).

* The Arba ' ah Turim ( The Tur, The Four Columns ) by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher ( 1270 – 1343, Toledo, Spain ).

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

Several years later, with his brother, Isaac, Jacob published the Bible commentary Miklal Yofi by Solomon ben Melekh which included his own commentary, Lekket Shikchah ( Gleanings ), on the Pentateuch, the Book of Joshua, and part of the Book of Judges.

Mieszko and his people were described around 966 by Abraham ben Jacob, a Sephardi Jewish traveller, who at that time visited the Prague court of Duke Boleslav I the Cruel.

The war was reported by Abraham ben Jacob.

* Rashi's oldest daughter, Yocheved, married Meir ben Shmuel ; their four sons were: Shmuel ( Rashbam ) ( b. 1080 ), Yitzchak ( Rivam ) ( b. 1090 ), Jacob ( Rabbeinu Tam ) ( b. 1100 ), and Shlomo the Grammarian, who were among the most prolific of the Baalei Tosafos, leading rabbinic authorities who wrote critical and explanatory glosses on the Talmud which appear opposite Rashi's commentary on every page of the Talmud.

Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir ( known as Rabbeinu Tam ), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel.

However, Isaac evidently ignored the woman's alleged confession in favor of the testimony of Joseph ben Todros and of Jacob, a pupil of Moses de León, both of whom assured him on oath that the work was not written by de Leon.

** Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero-Jewish kabbalist from Safed, Israel

* December 18 – Jacob ben Wolf Kranz, maggid ( b. c. 1740 )

** Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, author ( d. 1625 )

* Jacob ben Machir is appointed dean of the medical school at Montpellier.

* 1270 – Jacob ben Asher, Spanish rabbi and important religious author

* Jacob ben Asher, Spanish rabbi and religious writer

R. Gershom, his brother Machir, Joseph ben Samuel Bonfils ( Tob ' Elem ) of Limoges, R. Tam ( Jacob ben Meïr ), Menahem ben Perez of Joigny, Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil, Judah of Paris, Meïr Spira, and R. Meïr of Rothenburg made Masoretic compilations, or additions to the subject, which are all more or less frequently referred to in the marginal glosses of Biblical codices and in the works of Hebrew grammarians.

Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah, having collated a vast number of manuscripts, systematized his material and arranged the Masorah in the second Bomberg edition of the Bible ( Venice, 1524 – 25 ).

He was a student of Levi Ibn Habib, who was in turn a student of Jacob ibn Habib, who was, in turn, a student of Nissim ben Reuben.

) was annotated by Dunash ibn Tamim or by Jacob b. Nissim, while Saadia and Donnolo wrote commentaries on the longer recension ( Mantua II .).

* Jacob ben Nissim

Another letter by Sherira, also addressed to Jacob ben Nissim of Kairouan ( included in the "' Aruk ," s. v.

He studied in Kairouan, Tunisia under Rabbeinu's Nissim ben Jacob, and Chananel ben Chushiel the recognized rabbinical authorities of the age.

He is closely associated with Nissim Ben Jacob in the capacity of rabbi and Rosh yeshiva of Kairouan.

Nissim ben Jacob ( Hebrew: ניסים בן יעקב, also known as Rav Nissim Gaon or in Hebrew: רבנו נסים, lit.

* Nissim ben Jacob ibn Shahin, tr.

* Nissim ben Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin, jewishencyclopedia. com

* Nissim ben Jacob, jewishhistory. org

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The story is also similar to one told by Rabbi Nissim ben Jacob in the eleventh century of a journey made by the prophet Elijah and Rabbi Joshua ben Levi.

In several of these manuscripts Ibn Tamim is expressly referred to as the author ; in one instance he is named again, but with his teacher, while in another Jacob ben Nissim is named, who lived in Kairouan at the end of the Tenth century.

He must, therefore, have selected the commentary of his teacher as his basis, while the finishing touch must have been given by Jacob b. Nissim.

In 1675, Jacob addressed the community at the dedication of the new synagogue in Amsterdam.

In 1817, Lovell, then chief medical officer of the Northern Department, addressed to Major General Jacob Brown, the department commander, a letter dealing with the Sick Report of the Northern Division for the Year ending June 30, 1817, in which he discussed not only the cause of disease in the army, but also gave his views upon the duties of medical officers and their responsibility for the sickness occurring among the troops.

In 1866, during the congressional debates about the draft Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Senator Jacob Howard noted that the U. S. Supreme Court had never squarely addressed the meaning of the Privileges and Immunities Clause:

Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.

In the group " Iakoubia, Iaosabaoth Adonai Abrasax ," the first name seems to be composed of Jacob and Ya.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

Using comparative linguistic evidence from continental Germanic sources, the 19th century scholar Jacob Grimm proposed the existence of a cognate form of Ēostre among the pre-Christian beliefs of the continental Germanic peoples, whose name he reconstructed as * Ostara.

Israel is elected for salvation because the " sons of Israel " are " the firstborn son " of the God of Israel, descended through Shem and Abraham to the chosen line of Jacob whose name is changed to Israel.

Jacob Myers suggests a number of possible reasons for this letter, among them that it may be an example of a better known prophet's name being substituted for that of a lesser known prophet.

Mormons worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, " in the name of " Jesus Christ ( the Son of God ), and by the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Isaac is mentioned fifteen times by name in the Qur ' an, often with his father and his son, Jacob.

Jacob asked the being's name, but he refused to answer.

Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony.

) Jacob gets the name Israel after he wrestles with the Angel of God as he is traveling to Esau.

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob ( born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England ) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

In April 1629 he joined the University of Franeker, living at the Sjaerdemaslot, and the next year, under the name " Poitevin ", he enrolled at the Leiden University to study mathematics with Jacob Golius and astronomy with Martin Hortensius.

The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers ( born Wonskolaser WON Sko La ' Ser or Wonsal )— Harry ( born Hirsz ), Albert ( born Aaron ), Sam ( born Szmul ), and Jack ( Itzhak or to some sources Jacob ).

Under the name Lucille LeSueur, Crawford began dancing in the choruses of traveling revues and was spotted dancing in Detroit by producer Jacob J. Shubert.

Prior to a meeting with rival brother, Esau, the biblical patriarch Jacob wrestles an angel on the shores of the Jabbok and is given the name ' Israel '.

He thought it politic to revert temporarily to the name Jacob.

:" 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “ Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven .” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “ A hand upon the throne of the Lord Jacob!

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Zebulun, the sixth son of Jacob and Leah, from whom it took its name.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Simeon the second son of Jacob, and of Leah, from whom it took its name ; however some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Reuben, the first son of Jacob, and a son of Leah, from whom it took its name.