חכמי ספרד
81 hakhamim across a thousand years, linked teacher to student
From the academy of Lucena to the Jerusalem of today, Sephardic hakhamim wrote the codes, commentaries and kabbalistic works that Jews everywhere still learn. Each name below links to a full profile with the sage's works, teachers and students.
Who taught whom, drawn from each sage's profile. The Rambam learned the Ri Migash's teaching through his father, Rabbi Maimon.
From the Sephardic U shop
מורשת ספרד
A thousand years of great rabbis, leaders and thinkers on one timeline, from Hasdai ibn Shaprut to Hakham Ovadia Yosef. Made for the home, the classroom and the beit midrash.
Under the caliphs of Córdoba and the taifa kings, Jewish courtiers, poets and Talmudists built the first great Sephardic center. Lucena's academy trained the sages, Hebrew poetry flowered, and the age ended when the Almohad invasion of 1148 scattered the community.
11 sagesIn Catalonia and Castile the great Talmudic commentators flourished, from the Ramban and the Rashba to the Ritva and the Ran, while philosophers and kabbalists debated the meaning of faith. The massacres of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492 brought the era to its end.
17 sagesThe exiles rebuilt their learning in Salonica, Constantinople, Cairo and above all Safed, where Maran wrote the Shulhan Arukh, the Ramak and the Arizal transformed Kabbalah, and Shlomo Alkabetz gave us Lekha Dodi.
13 sagesSephardic life spread from Morocco and Jerusalem to Amsterdam, London and the Americas. Converso returnees rebuilt Jewish communities in the West, while the Ohr HaHaim, the Rashash and the Hida carried Torah and Kabbalah forward in the East.
12 sagesFrom Baghdad and Izmir to Livorno and New York, hakhamim led communities through emancipation, empire and upheaval. The Ben Ish Hai shaped the practice of Iraqi Jewry and beyond, and the first chief rabbis of the Land of Israel took office.
12 sagesAfter the mass migration of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews to Israel and the West, a new generation restored the authority of Maran's rulings and rebuilt Sephardic learning, led by Hakham Ovadia Yosef and the sages of Jerusalem, Morocco and the diaspora.
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