Abudarhamאבודרהם
Seville · 1330
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David Abudarham
David Abudarham
1280 CE–1345 CE · Rishonim · Seville
Rabbi David Abudarham flourished in Seville in the mid-fourteenth century, completing his great work there in 1340. Drawing on the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, the Geonim, and earlier commentators, his Sefer Abudarham — a sweeping commentary on the blessings and prayers of the Jewish liturgy — set out to explain the origin and meaning of every part of the service so that worshippers could pray with understanding. It became the indispensable classic on the history and structure of Jewish prayer, cited by virtually every later authority on the liturgy.
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Stop 1 of 11280–1345Born
SevilleסיביליהAndalusia — pre-expulsion Castilian center
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Of Seville; his classic commentary explains the liturgy and its laws.
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Seville's Jewish community was one of the largest in Castile before the 1391 massacres, which began here under the agitation of Archdeacon Ferrand Martinez. The destruction of the Sevillian Jewish community signaled the start of Iberian Jewry's century-long decline toward the 1492 expulsion.
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