Bar-Ilan University Press

Etz Haim by Rabbi Haim Gaugine

Moshe Amar

The Nissim D. Gaon Prize of the B'Yahad Fund for the Study and Dissemination of the Heritage of North African Jewry, 1988 A bitter halakhic dispute that illustrates the difference in attitudes of Moroccan Jews and the more liberal newcomers from Spain at the time of the Expulsion, and casts light on the difficulties of their absorption into a Jewish community with a cultural background so different from their own.

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Danacode: 110-10191 ISBN: 965-226-071-1 Language: Hebrew Pages: 200 Weight: 500 gr Dimensions: 17X25 cm Publication Date: 01/1987 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

This book, the third in Dr. Nezrit's works on the communities of Tafilalet / Sijilmassa, covers all the customs of the area.

The Thought of R. Joseph Albo

Esoteric Writing in the Late Middle Ages

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of R. Joseph Albo’s philosophical-religious thought. This analysis is based on a careful and meticulous reading of the Book of Principles and emphasizes the stylistic-literary dimension of the text. The ma

R. Israel Najara - ''Mikve Yisrael''

An annotated critical edition of R. Israel Najara's book of sermons, Mikve Yisrael…, from original manuscripts, with a comprehensive introduction. The book contains 40 sermons delivered on various occasions. R. Israel Najara, who lived in the 16th century

The Sermons of R. Yitzhak Karo

Taken from a manuscript that reached Turkey after the Expulsion from Spain, the sermons focused on death and the eternity of the soul and were delivered on occasions such as weddings, circumcisions, festivals and funerals.

R. Joseph ben Abraham Hayyun

The Leader of the Lisbon Community and his Literary Work

The book includes: (1) a description of the Jewish community in Lisbon and its leader, Rabbi Joseph Hayyun in the 15th century, (2)’an analysis of selections from Hayyun's writings - commentaries and introductions to biblical texts’- published here for th