The Spanish-born Jewish scholar Nahmanides (1194-1270), also called Moses ben Nahman, was the first outstanding rabbi to declare that resettlement in the land of Israel was a biblical precept binding upon all Jews. Nahmanides was born in Gerona and...

(Moses ben Nahman, Ramban) (1194–1270) Spanish philosopher and *Talmudist. Nahmanides was the founder of a highly prestigious talmudic academy at Gerona. He defended *Maimonides against the *ban of *excommunication pronounced on him by the French...

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NAHMANIDES, MOSES (c. 1194–c. 1270), also known by the acronym RaMBaN (Rabbi Mosheh ben Naḥman); Spanish name, Bonastrug da Porta; Talmudist, biblical exegete, mystic, and polemicist. Born in Gerona, Catalonia, in a period of cultural...

Nahmanides (1194 – c. 1270) was a Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, Kabbalist and biblical commentator. "Nahmanides " is the common name for Moshe ben Nahman Gerondi; the name is a Greek translation of the Hebrew "Ben Nahman", meaning "Son of...