'Sforno' is the name of a prominent Jewish Italian family, many members of which distinguished themselves as rabbis and scholars. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Rabbi (pronunciation, although in English usually) in Judaism, means a religious ‘teacher’ or more literally ‘my great one’ when addressing any master The most prominent of these were the following:
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Hananeel ben Jacob Sforno
Scholar of Talmud. The Talmud ( Hebrew: he תַּלְמוּד is a record of Rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history He lived at Bologna in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and was the brother of Obadiah Sforno, who mentions him in the introduction to his commentary on the Pentateuch. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy term " Torah " ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה "teaching" or "instruction" sometimes translated as "Law" most commonly refers to Obadiah also writes that Hananeel was a financier, and at one point, supported Obadiah financially. Financier (fɨˈnænsiɚ or finãˈsje in French is a term for a person who handles large sums of Money, usually involving money lending, financing A responsum of Hananeel's was inserted by Shabbethai Baer in his Beer Eshek. Responsa ( Latin: plural of responsum, "answers" comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by Legal scholars in response to questions
Israel Sforno
Talmudist; lived at Viadano in the sixteenth century. A halakhic decision of his is quoted in a manuscript collection of 260 responsa of the Italian rabbis (No. Halakha ( הלכה; alternative transliterations include Halocho and Halacha) is the collective body of Jewish Religious law 235).
Jacob ben Obadiah Sforno
Venetian scholar of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Shabbethai Bass, and, after him, Wolf, attributed to Jacob a work entitled Iggeret ha-Ṭe'amim (Venice, 1600), containing mystic explanations of the accents. Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass (1641-1718 ( Hebrew: שבתי בן יוסף) born at Kalisz, was the father of Jewish bibliography and author of the Sifsei The correctness of the ascription is, however, doubted by Steinschneider, who believes that this work is identical with one of the same title by Aaron Abraham ben Baruch. Moritz Steinschneider ( March 30, 1816, Prostějov (Prossnitz Moravia – 1907 was a Bohemian Bibliographer and Orientalist
Nissim Isaac ben Judah Sforno
A rabbi at Mantua in the sixteenth century. Mantua (Màntova in the local dialect of Lombard language Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the He was the author of an epistle on the Kuzari. The Kuzari is one of most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. A responsum (legal novella) of his is quoted in the above-mentioned collection. A novella is a written, Fictional Prose Narrative longer than a Novelette but shorter than a Novel.
Obadiah ben Israel Sforno
Venetian Talmudist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He edited Menahem Azariah di Fano's Yemin Adonai Romemah (Venice, n. d. ); and a responsum of his is inserted in Di Fano's collection of Responsa (Venice, n. d. , p. 83).
Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
Italian exegete, philosopher, and physician; born at Cesena about 1475; died at Bologna in 1550. Exegesis (from the Greek 'to lead out' involves an extensive and critical interpretation of an authoritative text, especially of a Holy Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Cesena (ancient Caesena) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the See the main article on him, Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno. For the article elaborating on the many members of the Sforno family see Sforno (family.
Osheah ben Nissim Isaac Sforno
Rabbi at Mantua in the first half of the seventeenth century. A religious poem of his was inserted by Joseph Jedidiah Karmi in his Kenaf Renanim.
Solomon Samuel ben Nissim Israel Sforno
Rabbi at Asti, later at Venice; died in 1617. Asti is a city and Comune in the Piemonte or Piedmont region, in north-western Italy, about 55 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro Several responsa of his were inserted by Jacob Heilbronner in his Naḥalat Ya'aḳob (Padua, 1622). Solomon left in manuscript commentaries on Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, the Megillot, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles. Psalms ( Hebrew: Tehilim, תהילים, or "praises" is a book of the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) included The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the Ketuvim of the Tanakh, and thus also one of the books of the Old Testament. The Book of Job ( איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Daniel (דניאל, originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a Book in both the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh) and the Christian For other uses of the word "Megillah" see Megillah (disambiguation. The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and Hebrew Tanakh. The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, historically regarded as a continuation of the Book of Ezra, and is sometimes called the second book The Books of Chronicles ( Hebrew Divrei Hayyamim, דברי הימים Greek Paraleipomêna) are part of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish He edited the Cuzari with the commentary of Judah Moscato (Venice, 1594). Judah Moscato (b c 1530 d c 1593 was an Italian rabbi poet and philosopher of the sixteenth century born at Osimo, near Ancona; died at Mantua On his death a funeral sermon was pronounced by Leon of Modena, who lauded him in the highest terms. Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (1571-1648 was a Jewish scholar born in Venice of a notable French family which had migrated to
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