Sefardi Jews and Maimonides Ashkenazi Jews and Rashi

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New Centers of Jewish Culture• Gaonic period– Talmudic academies inBabylonia– 7th – 10th c.– These schools (yeshivot)served the same function asSanhedrin– Sura, Pumbedita• Southwestern Europe, since 7th c.• Arabization and islamization ofthe Middle East, Egypt, northern Africa, most of Spain• Besides hebrew and arameic (the language of Talmud; a languagespoken in entire Middle East 2000 years ago), Jewish scholars start touse arabic, especially for scientific and philosophical treatises• 10th c. – Andalusia – new center of the Jewish education– Flowering of Jewish philosophy, science and poetry
Shelomo Ibn Gabirol• THE 16-YEAR-OLD POET•• I am the prince the song• ‘s my slave I am the• string all singers songmen• tune my song’s a crown for• kings for ministers a• little crown am only• sixteen years old but my• heart holds wisdom like some• poet 8o year old man• Known as Avicenbrol• Neoplatonic philosophy Influenced mainly Christianthinking• „Fountain of Life“• 11th c. – Almoravids, Berbersfrom north-west Africa cameto help Andalusia againstChristian king Alfonso VI formCastillia– Religious intolerance
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Page 7 and 8: Jewish mysticism• Kabbalah = myst
Page 9 and 10: Jicchak Luria• There was only an
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Sefardi Jews and Maimonides Ashkenazi Jews and Rashi

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