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Nathan ben Abraham I
11th century commentator on the Mishnah
This article is about Nathan ben Abraham, President of the Academy. For Nathan ben Jehiel, author of "Sefer ha-Arukh", see Nathan ben Jehiel.
Nathan ben Abraham, known also by the epithet President of the Academy (Hebrew: רבינו נתן אב הישיבה) in the Land of Israel (died ca. 1045 – 1051), was an 11th-century rabbi and exegete of the Mishnah who lived in Ramla, in the Jund Filastin district of the Fatimid Caliphate. He was the author of the first known commentary covering the entire Mishnah.
Biography
A critical analysis of the time-frame in which the author of the Judeo-Arabic Mishnah commentary lived places him in the early 11th century. Assaf suggests that he was Rabbi Nathan the second, the son of Rabbi Abraham who was called the Pious, a contemporary of Rabbi Abiathar, who served in the geonate of the Land of Israel in 1095 CE. This view has been rejected by more recent scholars, such as Gil (1983), Friedman (1990), Danzig (1998), Amar (2011) and Fox (1994), who put him two generations earlier. In around 1011, Nathan travelled to Qayrawan, to attend to his family inheritance, and while there he studied under the illustrious Rabbi Hushiel ben Elhanan, one of the greatest Jewish scholars of the time. During this time he would travel to Fustat (Old Cairo), in Egypt, where he had certain business engagements, and where it was that he'd meet his future wife, the daughter of Mevorakh ben Eli, a wealthy citizen of Fustat. Nearing the age of forty, he returned to his native Palestine and, after settling in Ramleh where he vied with the GaonSolomon ben Judah of Jerusalem between the years 1038 and 1051 over the position of gaon, he was eventually appointed the Av Beit Din (President of the court) in Palestine, a position only second to that of the gaon, and which post he held until his death. During his years of publi Paris, 20 February 2019 President of the French Senate, President of the National Assembly, President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, Prime ministers, Ministre d’État, Ministers, Mayor of Paris, President of the Île-de-France region, Members of Parliament, Ambassadors, Religious leaders, President of the CRIF [Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France], Ladies and gentlemen, Like everyone here, I would have liked this dinner – the second I have had the honour to attend as President – to have been held under calmer circumstances. We would have spoken passionately about Claude Lanzmann and what he gave to France by joining the Resistance at the age of 18, and what he contributed to the world with his monumental film, Shoah, immortal against an inexorable fading of memories with the passage of time. We would have remembered Marceline Loridan, who passed away in September, and her relentless work to pass on the memory of genocide and its insolence. And Georges Loinger, who left us in December taking with him a life of heroism, he, a man who saved nearly 400 Jewish children during the Second World War. We would have together relived that bright sunny morning in July when the French people gathered in rue Soufflot around the blue, white and red coffins of Simon and Antoine Veil. Simone Veil, who drew force from the inexpressible horror of the camps to build, through her battles to preserve memory, for women and for Europe, the universal work of France even more. We would have certainly looked back on the 70-year friendship that binds France and Israel, that the cross-cultural season in 2018 helped perpetuate, and that President Rivlin’s visit to Paris in mid-January helped to seal. We may eve Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, considered the “father of modern Hebrew,” dies at the age of 64 from tuberculosis in Jerusalem. Some 30,000 mourners attend his funeral when he is buried on the Mount of Olives. Born into a Chabad Hasidic family, Ben-Yehuda was nevertheless exposed to a variety of Enlightenment literature and eventually became interested in both Hebrew literature and the idea of a Jewish nationalist revival. In 1879, his article “She’elah Lohatah” (“A Burning Question”) was one of the first to call for a spiritual center in the land of Israel to serve as the territorial anchor for Jewish nationalism. In 1881, he moved to Jerusalem, telling his wife that they would only converse in Hebrew and raise the first modern-Hebrew-speaking child. In an attempt to foster Hebrew speaking among the religious Jews who already knew the language, he grew out his beard and payes (sideburns) and with his wife posed as religious Jews. The religious Jews soon discovered his motives and even excommunicated him. As a result, he eventually developed an anti-religious attitude. In 1890, Ben-Yehuda founded the Va’ad ha-Lashon, the forerunner to the Academy of Hebrew Language, which today is Israel’s primary authority on Hebrew language, including the creation of new words. In 1910 he began publication of his Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew. The full 17-volume set was completed after his death by his second wife, Hemda.JewishEncyclopedia.com
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Thirty-fourth annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France – Speech by M. Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic
December 16, 1922