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Jacob Berab (Hebrew: יעקב בירב), also
spelled Berav or Bei-Rav,
known as
Mahari Beirav (1474 –
April 3, 1546), was an
influential rabbi and talmudist...
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settled in Safed. At
Safed he met
Jacob Berab and was soon
appointed a
member of his
rabbinical court.
Berab exerted great influence upon him, and Karo...
- Levi ibn
Habib (b. Spain)—ruled from
Jerusalem but in 1538,
Rabbi Jacob Berab who came from
Spain via Egypt,
sought to
revive the Sanhedrin, in Safed...
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Vidal of
Tolosa After the
expulsion David ben
Solomon ibn Abi
Zimra Jacob Berab Levi ibn Ḥabib
Yosef Karo
Yaakov de
Castro Bezalel Ashke****
Moses ben Jacob...
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several attempts to
implement Maimonides'
recommendations by
Rabbi Jacob Berab in 1538,
Rabbi Yisroel Shklover in 1830,
Rabbi Aharon Mendel haCohen in...
- been made to
implement Maimonides's recommendations. In 1538,
Rabbi Jacob Berab of
Safed attempted to
restore the
traditional form of
semikhah and ordained...
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little opposition when
Berab argued that his
ordination was
legal from a
Talmudic standpoint. However, cir****stances
changed when
Berab ordained the chief...
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semikhah from
Berab, and then gave
semikhah to others. However,
other rabbis ruled that
Berab's semikhah was invalid. In any case,
Berab's chain of semikhah...
- 1515)
Abraham ben
Eliezer Halevi (d. 1528) Levi ibn
Habib (d. 1545)
Jacob Berab (d. 1546)
Joseph Nasi (d. 1579)
Moses Galante (d. 1689)
Moses ibn Habib...
- of the
rabbis who
received the
special semicha ("ordination") from
Jacob Berab in 1538,
alongside Joseph Karo, Cordovero's
teacher of halakha,
Moses ben...
