Rabbenu Yonah of Girona

רבנו יונה גירונדי

Talmudist and teacher of ethics · c. 1200–1263

Sephardi · EstablishedChristian Iberia

Talmudist of Girona, a cousin of the Ramban and teacher of a generation of Spanish scholars. As a young man he joined the campaign against Maimonides' philosophical writings; tradition holds that he later repented and turned his life to the ethics of return. His Sha'arei Teshuvah, The Gates of Repentance, is still studied every Elul.

Title page of Sha'arei Teshuvah
Title page of Sha'arei Teshuvah. public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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