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Bezalel Ashkenazi was a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud during the 16th century in Israel.1He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet , a commentary on the Talmud .2He is very straitfoward in his writings and occasionally offers textual emmendments to the Talmud .3His most famous disciple was the famous Kabbalist , Rabbi Isaac Luria .4
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Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi ( ) (ca. 1520 - ca. 1592) was a rabbi and scholar of the Talmud who lived in the Palestine during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet , a commentary on the Talmud. He is very straightforward in his writings and occasionally offers textual amendments to the Talmud.His most important disciple was the famous Kabbalist , Rabbi Isaac Luria .
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Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi ( ) (ca. 1520 – ca. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Palestine during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of Shittah Mekubetzet , a commentary on the Talmud. He is very straightforward in his writings and occasionally offers textual amendments to the Talmud. His most important disciple was the famous Kabbalist , Rabbi Isaac Luria .
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Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi ( ) ( c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Palestine during the 16th century.He is best known as the author of Shitah Mekubetzet , a commentary on the Talmud. He is very straightforward in his writings and occasionally offers textual amendments to the Talmud. His most important disciple was the famous Kabbalist , Rabbi Isaac Luria .
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Rabbi and Talmudic scholar (c. 1520–1591) Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi ( ) ( c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th century.He is best known as the author of the Shitah Mekubetzet , a commentary on the Talmud.Among his disciples were Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni .There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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Rabbi and Talmudic scholar (c. 1520–1591) Bezalel ben Abraham Ashkenazi ( Hebrew : בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי ) ( c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th century. He is best known as the author of the Shitah Mekubetzet , a commentary on the Talmud. Among his disciples were Isaac Luria and Solomon Adeni . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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rabbi and scholar of the talmud during the 16th century in israel
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rabbi and talmudist who lived in ottoman israel during the 16th century
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