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Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish philosopher and a renowned halakhist (teacher of Jewish law).
Jan 4, 2012 · Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (ca. 1340–1410/11) was the head of the Jewish community of Aragon, and in some ways all of Hispanic Jewry, during one of its most critical periods. Crescas was one of the leading rabbinic authorities of his time, [ 1 ] the political leader of the Jews of Aragon, and a philosophical polemicist against Christianity.
Ḥasdai ben Abraham Crescas (born 1340, Barcelona?—died 1410, Saragossa, Spain) was a Spanish philosopher, Talmudic scholar, and critic of the Aristotelian rationalist tradition in Jewish thought, who became the crown rabbi of Aragon. A merchant and Jewish communal leader in Barcelona (1367), Crescas became closely associated with the royal ...
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Rabbi Hasdai Crescas. One of the greatest scholars and main pillars of Judaism during the dark period of the Jewish persecutions in Spain, was Rabbi Hasdai, the son of Rabbi Judah Crescas. Rabbi Hasdai Crescas was born in Barcelona, Spain, in the year 5110 (1340), in a noble family that had been famous for its scholars and leaders in Jewry for ...
CRESCAS (or Cresques), ḤASDAI BEN JUDAH (c. 1340–winter 1410–11), Catalonian rabbi, philosopher, and statesman. Crescas was born into an old Barcelonan family of rabbis and merchants. He studied Talmud and philosophy there under Rabbi *Nissim b. Reuben Gerondi (c. 1310–1376) and together with Nissim's other outstanding disciple, Rabbi *Isaac b.
May 14, 2018 · Crescas, Hasdai ( c. 1340– c. 1412). Jewish Spanish philosopher and statesman. He wrote Or Adonai (The Light of the Lord) to refute the philosophical teachings of Maimonides and Jewish Aristotelianism.
Jan 1, 2020 · Biographical Information. Hasdai ben Judah Crescas (c. 1340–1410/1411) is the last outstanding original Jewish philosopher in the late medieval period. Although Crescas had no interest in science per se, he was embroiled in precisely the same set of scientific issues that occupied scholastic philosophers after the condemnation of 1277.
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