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Coffee with the Rishonim Recap
☕☕☕ We've had a lot of anachronistic coffees with the great Rishonim. Here's a thematic recap of who we've gotten to know over five centuries.
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Coffee with Maran Yosef Karo
☕ A staggering genius, R. Yosef Karo lived through the signal events inaugurating early modernity and single-handedly created the dividing line between…
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Coffee with Sforno
☕ Sforno, rooted in traditional Jewish learning and teeming with new humanist ideas, brought his day and age to bear on ancient truths. He shows us how…
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Coffee with the Bartenura
☕ R. Ovadia di Bertinoro, better known as "the Bartenura," wrote a much-loved commentary on the Mishnah as well as three amazing letters about his…
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Coffee with Abravanel
☕ Abravanel reached the glittering heights of Iberian society and lost it all—twice—and rebuilt in Italy, all while writing paradigm-shifting works of…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Coffee with the Ran
☕A fruitful era of synthetic Sefardi scholarship reaches its conclusion in the work of the Ran; his students took his Torah with them in addressing the…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Coffee with the Tur
☕ R. Yaakov ben Asher, son of the Rosh, sought to make Jewish law widely understandable so that more could walk in its ways. In the process, he…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Coffee with the Rosh
☕R. Asher ben Yechiel carried with him the Chasidut of his father and the Tosafot of his teacher, Maharam of Rothenburg, and transplanted it to faraway…
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Dr. Tamar Ron Marvin
Coffee with Menachem ha-Meiri
☕ His prolix work languished in manuscript for centuries, but today, happily, we have Meiri's unique contributions to guide us ably through the Talmud.
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Coffee with Ritva
☕Ritva's synthesis brings together Sefarad and Ashkenaz, philosophy and Kabbalah, Rambam and Ramban—all in service of his search for the essence of…
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Coffee with Rabbenu Bachya
☕ R. Bachya ben Asher made the burgeoning Kabbalistic movement more accessible in his beloved Torah commentary, where he also anthologized much midrash…
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Coffee with Rashba
☕ The cantankerous Torah giant of Barcelona was involved in all of his day's affairs, walking a middle path that was informed by, but also wary of…
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