Mahari Berav
1474 CE–1546 CE · Acharonim · Maqueda
R. Yaakov Berav (1474-1546) was one of the dominant Sephardic figures of the early-modern Mediterranean. Born in Maqueda, Castile, he was exiled in 1492 (age 18), reached Fes via Portugal where he served as Chief Rabbi from 1493 to 1505, then sojourned in Algiers, Egypt, and Damascus before settling in Tzfat around 1533.
In Tzfat he became the head of the rabbinic academy and the senior halachist of his generation. In 1538 he launched the famous attempt to renew classical semicha (rabbinic ordination) in Tzfat — a step many understood as preparation for renewing the Sanhedrin in advance of the messianic age. The semicha controversy with R. Levi ibn Chabib (Jerusalem) prevented broad acceptance, but Berav succeeded in ordaining R. Yosef Karo, R. Moshe Cordovero (in some accounts), and R. Yosef Sagis, transmitting the chain forward.
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Maqueda
What they did here
Born in Maqueda near Toledo, Castile, Spain.
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Mahari Berav’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Bartenura, Moshe Alashkar, Mahari Korkus, Radbaz, Shlomo Sirilio, Yosef Karo, Mabit, Shlomo Alkabetz, Moshe Alshich, Reishit Chochmah, Shita Mekubetzes, Ramak, Moshe Galante, Elazar Azikri
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Mahari Berav’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Don Isaac Abarbanel· 1437 CE–1508 CE
- Rabbi Avraham Zacuto· 1452 CE–1515 CE
- R. Eliyahu Mizrachi· 1455 CE–1525 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Pollak· 1460 CE–1541 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Taitazak· 1465 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
- R. Levi ibn Chabib· 1480 CE–1545 CE
- Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen· 1482 CE–1565 CE
- R. Eliyahu Capsali· 1483 CE–1555 CE
- Shimon Lavi· 1486 CE–1585 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
- Shlomo Luria (Yam Shel Shlomo)· 1510 CE–1573 CE
- Rabbi Yitzchak Adarbi· 1510 CE–1584 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Katz· 1511 CE–1591 CE
- R. Moshe Almosnino· 1515 CE–1580 CE
- Rabbi Yehoshua Boaz· 1518 CE–1555 CE
- Moses Isserles (Rema)· 1530 CE–1572 CE
- Isaac Luria (The Arizal)· 1534 CE–1572 CE
Scientists
Christian world
Buddhist world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Rulers world
- Cuauhtémoc· 1495 CE–1525 CE
- Manco Inca Yupanqui· –1544 CE
- Afonso I of Kongo· –1543 CE
- Babur· 1483 CE–1530 CE
- Huáscar· 1495 CE–1532 CE
- Vasili III· 1479 CE–1533 CE
- Shah Ismail I· 1487 CE–1524 CE
- Sher Shah Suri· 1486 CE–1545 CE
- Askia Muhammad I· –1538 CE
- Cacamatzin· 1483 CE–1520 CE
- Henry VIII· 1491 CE–1547 CE
- Krishnadevaraya· 1471 CE–1529 CE
- Cuitláhuac· 1476 CE–1520 CE
- Atahualpa· –1533 CE
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