Ramban
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| Ramban | (RAHM-bahn) | listen |
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n. Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Nachmanides), the 13th-century Spanish rabbi, physician, philosopher, and kabbalist whose influential Torah commentary blended peshat, halakha, and sod.
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"The Ramban holds that the mitzvah of living in Eretz Yisroel applies at all times." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
acronym רמב״ן Ra-M-Ba-N, for Rabbeinu Mōšeh bēn-Nāḥmān 'Our Rabbi Moses son of Nahman'
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