Maharal of prague biography channel

          Prague (Bohemia)..

          The Great Jewish Books Course, in memory of Dr. Mark Wainberg z'l.

        1. The Maharal was a staunch leader of his community, he became the hero of many legends in which he appears as the defender of Prague Jewry.
        2. Prague (Bohemia).
        3. Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo: The Vilna Gaon (Jewish Biography as History) "Great Jewish Books Series" Lecture # The Maharal of Prague.
        4. Maharal of Prague - Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman Noted author, lecturer and educator Rosh Beis HaMedrash, Hasmonean, London Student and disciple of HaRav Yitzchak.

          5. Judah Loew ben Bezalel

          Czech rabbi and Kabbalist (d. )

          Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Hebrew: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; [1] – 17 September ),[2] also known as Rabbi Loew (alt.

          Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrewacronym of "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew'), was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer,[3] and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.

          Loew wrote on Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism. His work Gur Aryeh al HaTorah is a supercommentary on Rashi's Torah commentary.

          Rabbi Yehudah Loewe, (), not from Poland but important to Eastern European Jewry.

          He is also the subject of a later legend that he created the Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.[4]

          Name

          His name "Löw" or "Loew" is derived from the GermanLöwe, "lion" (cf.

          the YiddishLeib of the same origin). It is a kinnui, or subst