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Girona

Catalonia — Geronese Kabbalah

Girona (Gerona), a city in Catalonia, Spain, was the seat of one of the earliest schools of Kabbalah in the thirteenth century. The Geronese circle, including Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon, Rabbi Azriel of Gerona, and Rabbi Jacob ben Sheshet, developed speculative Kabbalah from the teachings of Isaac the Blind, and the city was the birthplace of Nachmanides (Ramban), who absorbed and transmitted this mystical tradition. Much of the terminology of later Kabbalah was first formulated here.

5 teachers · 24 works · 12 most-discussed ideas

Teachers who lived here

Works composed here

  • 1225

    Ramban on Sefer Yetzirah

    by Ramban

  • 1240

    Beur Eser Sefirot

    by Azriel of Gerona

  • 1260

    Sha'arei Teshuvah

    by Rabbeinu Yonah

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Avodah Zarah

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Bava Batra

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Berakhot

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Chullin

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Gittin

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Ketubot

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Kiddushin

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Makkot

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Niddah

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Sanhedrin

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Shabbat

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Shevuot

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Chiddushei Ramban on Yevamot

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Iggeret HaRamban

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Introdution to Milchemet Hashem

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Ramban on Deuteronomy

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Ramban on Exodus

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Ramban on Genesis

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Ramban on Leviticus

    by Ramban

  • 1265

    Ramban on Numbers

    by Ramban

  • 1350

    Chiddushei HaRan

    by Ran

Ideas shaped here

Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Girona. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.

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