Maharalbach
1480 CE–1545 CE · Acharonim · Zamora
R. Levi ibn Chabib (Maharalbach, c. 1480-1545) was the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem during a pivotal transition era. Son of R. Yaakov ibn Chabib (compiler of Ein Yaakov), he was exiled from Spain in 1492 as a child, was forcibly converted in Portugal in 1497, escaped to Salonika, and finally made aliyah to Jerusalem in 1525.
He is most famous for his sharp opposition to R. Yaakov Berav's 1538 attempt to renew classical semicha in Tzfat — the so-called 'Semicha Controversy', which Levi argued (in his Kuntres HaSemicha) could not be unilaterally re-established without consensus of all the major rabbinic centers. His Teshuvot Maharalbach and his Talmudic novellae are foundational Sephardic-Erets Yisrael sources.
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Zamora
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Born in Zamora, Spain, around 1480.
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Maharalbach’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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Yosef Taitazak, Moshe Alashkar, Mahari Korkus, Radbaz, Mabit, Reishit Chochmah, Shita Mekubetzes, Ramak, Moshe Galante, Arizal
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Maharalbach’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Ovadia Bartenura· 1445 CE–1515 CE
- Rabbi Avraham Zacuto· 1452 CE–1515 CE
- R. Eliyahu Mizrachi· 1455 CE–1525 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Pollak· 1460 CE–1541 CE
- R. Yaakov Berav· 1474 CE–1546 CE
- Ovadia Sforno· 1475 CE–1549 CE
- Meir ben Ezekiel Ibn Gabbai· 1480 CE–1540 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Klober· 1480 CE–1538 CE
- Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen· 1482 CE–1565 CE
- R. Eliyahu Capsali· 1483 CE–1555 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Sirilio· 1485 CE–1554 CE
- Shimon Lavi· 1486 CE–1585 CE
- Joseph Karo· 1488 CE–1575 CE
- David Reuveni· 1490 CE–1538 CE
- Rabbi Shalom Shachna of Lublin· 1490 CE–1558 CE
- Shlomo Molcho· 1500 CE–1532 CE
- Rabbi Shmuel di Medina· 1501 CE–1589 CE
- Rabbi Yosef ben Lev· 1503 CE–1580 CE
- R. Shlomo HaLevi Alkabetz· 1505 CE–1584 CE
- R. Moshe Alshich· 1508 CE–1593 CE
- Shlomo Luria (Yam Shel Shlomo)· 1510 CE–1573 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Adarbi· 1510 CE–1584 CE
- R. Moshe Almosnino· 1515 CE–1580 CE
- Rabbi Yehoshua Boaz· 1518 CE–1555 CE
Christian world
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Buddhist world
Rulers world
- Huáscar· 1495 CE–1532 CE
- Cuauhtémoc· 1495 CE–1525 CE
- Sher Shah Suri· 1486 CE–1545 CE
- Manco Inca Yupanqui· –1544 CE
- Afonso I of Kongo· –1543 CE
- Babur· 1483 CE–1530 CE
- Vasili III· 1479 CE–1533 CE
- Henry VIII· 1491 CE–1547 CE
- Shah Ismail I· 1487 CE–1524 CE
- Askia Muhammad I· –1538 CE
- Cacamatzin· 1483 CE–1520 CE
- Krishnadevaraya· 1471 CE–1529 CE
- Sayri Túpac· –1561 CE
- Cuitláhuac· 1476 CE–1520 CE
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