Nahmanides (Ramban)

Nahmanides (Ramban)

רבי משה בן נחמן (הרמב"ן)

Rabbi, physician, commentator and kabbalist · 1194–1270

Sephardi · EstablishedChristian Iberia

Leader of Catalan Jewry who defended Judaism before King James I at the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. Exiled after it, he reached Jerusalem in 1267 and refounded its Jewish community; the synagogue bearing his name still stands in the Old City.

Interior of the Ramban Synagogue, Jerusalem Old City
Interior of the Ramban Synagogue, Jerusalem Old City. Ido Winter, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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