Abraham Ben-David^{[1, 2]}

ca. 1130 - 1198  (68 år)

• Navn	Abraham Ben-David
  Kaldenavn	RABaD
  Fødsel	ca. 1130	Sauvagnon, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Frankrig
  Også kaldet	Rabbeinu Abraham ben David
  Også kaldet	Ravad
  Levned	Abraham ben David (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198),[1] also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal rabbi, a great commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key and important links in the chain of Jewish mystics. He was born in Provence, France, and died at Posquières. He was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne Av Beth Din (known as the RABaD II). He was the father of Rabbeinu Isaac the Blind, a Neoplatonist and important Jewish mystical thinker. The teachers under whose guidance he acquired most of his Talmudic learning were Rabbeinu Moses ben Joseph and Rabbeinu Meshullam of Lunel (Rabbeinu Meshullam hagodol). RABaD remained in Lunel after completing his studies, and subsequently became one of the rabbinical authorities of that city. He went to Montpellier, where he remained for a short time, and then moved to Nîmes, where he lived for a considerable period. Rabbeinu Moses ben Judah ("Temim De'im", p. 6b) refers to the rabbinical school of Nîmes, then under Rabbeinu Abraham's direction, as the chief seat of Talmudic learning in Provence.
  Beskæftigelse	Filosof
  	Many Kabbalists view the Ravad as one of the fathers of their system, and this is true to the extent that he was inclined to mysticism, which led him to follow an ascetic mode of life and gained for him the title of "the pious." He frequently spoke of "the holy spirit disclosing to him God's secrets in his studies" (chasidim regard this as a reference to the direct presence of Elijah in the court of the Ravad) (see his note to "Yad ha-Chazakah", Lulav, viii. 5; Beth ha-Bechirah, vi. 11), great mysteries known only to the initiated ("Yesodei ha-Torah", i. 10). The Ravad is widely considered to be the source of the commonly used diagram of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life that was ultimately written down by his son Isaac the Blind. The Ravad was not an enemy to science, as many deem him. His works show that he was a close student of Hebrew philology; and the fact that he encouraged the translation of Rabbeinu Bahya ibn Paquda's Chovot ha-Levavot shows that he was not hostile to philosophy. This philosophic work argues strongly against the anthropomorphistic conception of the Deity; and the favor with which the Ravad looked upon it is sufficient ground on which to acquit him of the charge of having held anthropomorphistic views. Some of his works show acquaintance with philosophy; for instance, his remark on "Hilchoth Teshuvah", v., end, is a literal quotation from Honein ben Isaac's "Musre ha-Philosophim," pp. 11, 12—or Loewenthal, p. 39, below—which is extant only in Al-Charizi's translation. (Wikipedia)
  Beskæftigelse	ca. 1165	Vauvert, Gard, Frankrig
  	Rabbiner
  	Tidligere: Lunel, Montpellier, Nimes.
  Død	27 nov. 1198	Vauvert, Gard, Frankrig
  Person-ID	I1903	Simon
  Sidst ændret	12 dec. 2021

  
  

  Familie	(Ukendt) Bat-Abraham Halevi,   f. ca. 1135, Sauvagnon, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Frankrig d. ca. 1198, Vauvert, Gard, Frankrig (Alder 63 år)
  Børn	1. Yitzhak Saggi Nehor,   f. ca. 1160, Sauvagnon, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Frankrig d. ca. 1235, Sauvagnon, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Frankrig (Alder 75 år)
  Familie-ID	F644	Gruppeskema  |  Familietavle
  Sidst ændret	4 maj 2018

  
  

• Notater

  Abrahams morfar (moderen ukendt) angives at være Rabbi Yitzhak b. Yaakov Ibn Baruch of Mérida (Yitzchak Ben Baruch Albalia) (1035–1094), som var "one of the outstanding Talmudic scholars and leaders of Spanish Jewry in the time of its “Golden Era.” He was born in Cordova, the capital of Andalusia, in the year 4795 (1035). The family into which he was born, known as "Baruch," or by its Spanish name "Albalia," was one of the oldest aristocratic Jewish families of Spain. The first ancestor of the family when it settled in Spain was Baruch, one of the princes of Judea who was taken captive by Titus, the Roman general (and later emperor) who destroyed Jerusalem. Baruch was an expert silk weaver, and Titus sent him, together with several other prominent exiles from Judea to Spain, which was also under Roman rule at that time. Baruch was to develop the silk industry there and also act as Roman governor of the province of Murida. Later the family moved to Cordova, where Yitzchak was born nearly 1000 years after his first ancestor settled in Spain." (https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112370/jewish/Rabbi-Yitzchak-Ben-Baruch-Albalia.htm) samt (Wkipedia).

  
  

• Kilder

  [S70] Coret, Bob (red.), Genealogieonline, (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/), 4 maj 2018, Udokumenteret (Troværdighed: 1). https://www.genealogieonline.nl/balogh-family-tree/I20307.php [S178] Wikipedia, (wikipedia.org), 22 dec. 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_ben_David.