Rabbi Yosef Albo

ר' יוסף אלבו

Philosopher and preacher · c. 1380–c. 1444

Sephardi · EstablishedChristian Iberia

Student of Crescas who represented the Jews at the Disputation of Tortosa in 1413–14. His Sefer HaIkkarim reduced Jewish belief to three root principles and became one of the most read works of Jewish philosophy.

Frontispiece of Sefer HaIkkarim
Frontispiece of Sefer HaIkkarim. Monozigote, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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