Moses ben Jacob Cordovero: Quick Facts

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Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

Baʿal Shem Ṭov

Polish rabbi

Eleazar ben Judah Of Worms

German rabbi

Joseph Gikatilla

Spanish Kabbalist

Moses De León

Spanish Kabbalist

Shabbetai Tzevi

Jewish pseudo-messiah

Jonathan Eybeschütz

Polish rabbi and scholar

Naḥmanides

Spanish scholar and rabbi

Philo Judaeus

Jewish philosopher

Judah ben Samuel

German Jewish mystic

Abraham Isaac Kook

chief rabbi of Palestine

Shimon bar Yochai

Jewish scholar

Elijah Delmedigo

philosopher

Jesus

Martin Buber

German religious philosopher

Flavius Josephus

Jewish priest, scholar, and historian

Judah ha-Levi

Hebrew poet

Franz Rosenzweig

German philosopher

Sir Sigmund Sternberg

British philanthropist and entrepreneur

Simon Markovich Dubnow

Russian historian