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Judah ben Yakar

Judah ben Yakar

1173 CE–1201 CE · Rishonim · Provence

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ProvenceפרובנסSouthern France

We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.

About Provence

Provence (the Languedoc region of southern France) was the cradle of Kabbalah as a written tradition; R. Yitzchak Sagi Nahor (Isaac the Blind, c. 1160-1235) of Posquières/Lunel/Narbonne was the founding figure.

In Provence at the same time

Isaac the Blind

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Judah ben Yakar’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

In the same tradition

Isaac the Blind

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