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Also Known As Rabbi Isaac Fasi • Isaac ben Jacob al-Phasi • Rif
Born 1013 • near Fès • Morocco
Died 1103 (aged 90) • Lucena • Spain
Subjects Of Study Halakhah
Gamaliel I
Jewish scholar
Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
Ashi
Babylonian-Jewish scholar
Louis Ginzberg
Lithuanian-American scholar
Aḥa Of Shabḥa
Jewish scholar
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Moses Maimonides
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Akiva ben Yosef
Akiva ben Yosef
Jewish sage and rabbinic founder
Johanan ben Zakkai
Jewish scholar
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
Judah ha-Nasi
Jewish scholar
Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller
Bohemian rabbi and scholar
Lag ba-ʿOmer
Shimon bar Yochai
Jewish scholar
Meïr
Jewish rabbi and scholar
Jacob Israel Emden
Danish rabbi
Adolf Jellinek
European Jewish rabbi and scholar
Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Isaac ben Moses Of Vienna
European scholar
Amram bar Sheshna
Jewish scholar
Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin
Hungarian scholar