Tarragona
Catalonia, Spain
Tarragona, a port city in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, had one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula, with roots in the Roman period, and a flourishing aljama in the medieval era until the persecutions of 1391. Rabbi Isaac Arama, author of the homiletic Torah commentary Akeidat Yitzchak, served as rabbi and preacher in Tarragona in the fifteenth century.
1 teacher · 1 work · 12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1490
Akeidat Yitzchak
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Tarragona. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Akeidat Yitzchak (Binding of Isaac)142 passages
- Nevuah (Prophecy)53 passages
- De'ot (Character Traits and Their Refinement)50 passages
- Hashgachah Pratit (Particular Providence)47 passages
- Hashgachah (Divine Providence)47 passages
- Emunah (Faith / Belief)46 passages
- Brit (Covenant)40 passages
- Maaseh Bereshit (The Account of Creation)40 passages
- Yetzer HaRa / Yetzer HaTov (Evil and Good Inclination)38 passages
- Hashkafah (Worldview / Jewish Theology)35 passages
- The Telos / Final End35 passages
- Tzelem Elokim (Divine Image)32 passages