Journey To France: Provence - Meet Gersonodies, The Ralbag, Rebbi Levi ben Gershon

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

we refer to the rambam as maimonides we refer to the ramban as nachmanidis and we refer to rabino levi ben gershon the bag as your sanity's gara sanity son of gershon he was born in 1288 in bagnol in provence and he passed away in 1344 in papua nyan the raw bag was known for aristotelianism which basically means he explained various miracles in the hamish and he was heavily criticized by the abar banel by rav almost wanted to put his works into his works on philosophy the muhammad sasham were criticized by torah scholars that they had more aristotelian content than torah content among his greatest critics the morale of prague but among the peers of the raubag he was recognized as a great sadiq a pious jew and a great intellect he was an astronomer for all you astronomers out there uh he invented jacob's staff if you know about jacob's staff and measures angles heights of stars you could go to any museum jacob's staff is the invention of thralbach he was a mathematician he's a doctor and his works on astronomy mathematics medicine we're all translated from hebrew into latin now i want to share with you two really amazing uh thoughts of the rabbagh and you'll see uh how novel he is in thinking in a number of ways the rabbagh analyzes maishwa banu shirak and he points out here mushroom the greatest ever man who ever lived had a hard time finding a shidduch and he married akushi and even though we know iraq she says that rashid does not interpret it literally there about does

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1. 0:34we refer to the rambam as maimonides we refer to the ramban as nachmanidis and we…
2. 1:04various miracles in the hamish and he was heavily criticized by the abar banel by rav…
3. 2:06two really amazing uh thoughts of the rabbagh and you'll see uh how novel he is…
4. 3:12then you gotta do b and there are boxes from here we see that you can't…
5. 4:29which basically means don't push the hour slide with the hour and we'll see what that…
6. 5:34of a sudden when he saw that things were turning around that's when he invested and…
7. 6:46he had more children and their names are shamu and says why is the navi telling…
8. 7:52i could tell i'm not going to be successful now so maybe now is not the…
9. 8:55was appointed the nathia over claudius and the vanessa asks what what does it mean that…
10. 9:59that a person can have that certain times are good certain times are maybe not predisposed…

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