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Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/ n æ k ˈ m æ n ɪ d iː z /; Greek: Ναχμανίδης Nakhmanídēs), and also referred to by the acronym Ramban (/ ˌ r ɑː m ˈ b ɑː n /; רמב״ן ) and by the ...
Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, a.k.a. Nahmanides, also known by the acronym of his initials, Ramban, was a medieval Spanish Jewish rabbi and thinker who wrote famous commentaries on the Torah and the Talmud. He was also a philosopher, poet and physician. In addition to his commentaries on Jewish sacred texts, he left behind several codes of Jewish law
Moshe ben Nachman (Nachmanides or the Ramban) was the foremost halakhist of his age. Like Maimonides before him, Nachmanides was a Spaniard who was both a physician and a great Torah scholar. However, unlike the rationalist Maimonides, Nachmanides had a strong mystical bent.
He exercised extensive influence over Jewish public life in Catalonia; even King James I (1213–1276) consulted him and in 1232, on the strength of Naḥmanides' opinion, rejected the claims of the *Alconstantini family to the position of dayyan over all the Jews of the kingdom.
This great champion was Rabbi Moses ben Nachman Gerondi, known by the abbreviation RaMBaN, and to the non-Jewish world-as Nachmanides. He was called Gerondi after his native town Gerona, Spain, where he was born in the year 4954 (1195 c.e.).
The most famous such debate was the Ramban 's disputation. It is unique in that it was the fairest and best recorded of all such incidents. In 1263, in the Spanish city of Barcelona, Ramban was ordered by King James I of Spain to debate publicly the Jewish religion with Church officials.
Naḥmanides (born c. 1194, Gerona, Catalonia—died 1270, Acre, Palestine) was a Spanish scholar and rabbi and Jewish religious leader. He was also a philosopher, poet, physician, and Kabbalist. Naḥmanides earned his livelihood as a physician and served successively as rabbi at Gerona and then as chief rabbi of Catalonia.
