Rabbenu Bahya ben Asher

רבנו בחיי בן אשר

Darshan and Torah commentator · c. 1255–1340

Sephardi · EstablishedChristian Iberia

Preacher in Saragossa and student of the Rashba. His commentary on the Torah reads each passage four ways, by its plain meaning, by midrash, by reason and by the way of kabbalah, and it became one of the most widely studied Sephardi commentaries. His Kad ha-Kemah gathers sermons on faith and the virtues, arranged by topic.

The traditional burial place of Rabbenu Bahya and his students
The traditional burial place of Rabbenu Bahya and his students. Yirmiyahou, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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