Rabbi Yitzhak Arama

Preacher and philosopher · c. 1420–1494

Sephardi · EstablishedChristian Iberia

Spanish rabbi and preacher whose Akedat Yitzhak, sermons on the Torah joining philosophy and homily, became one of the most widely read works of Jewish thought. He died in Naples after the Expulsion.

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