Maimon is a Jewish surname, and may refer to:
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Born in Córdoba within the Almoravid Empire, on Passover eve, 1138, he worked as a rabbi, physician and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt.
Hillel is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:
Jewish philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until modern Haskalah and Jewish emancipation, Jewish philosophy was preoccupied with attempts to reconcile coherent new ideas into the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, thus organizing emergent ideas that are not necessarily Jewish into a uniquely Jewish scholastic framework and world-view. With their acceptance into modern society, Jews with secular educations embraced or developed entirely new philosophies to meet the demands of the world in which they now found themselves.
Crescas is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common name among Jews of southern France and Catalonia. There have been a number of scholars and rabbis sharing that surname, including:
Maymin is a surname believed to be derived from the name Maimonides, a Rabbi of the 12th century.
Rishonim were the leading rabbis and poskim who lived approximately during the 11th to 15th centuries, in the era before the writing of the Shulchan Aruch and following the Geonim. Rabbinic scholars subsequent to the Shulchan Aruch are generally known as acharonim.
Abraham Maimonides was the son of Maimonides and succeeded his father as nagid of the Egyptian Jewish community.
Halevi may refer to:
Ashkenazi is a surname of Jewish origin. It originated in the 13th century, when Ashkenazi Jews immigrated to Muslim-ruled Spain, settling in with the local Sephardic Jewish community. After the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, they resettled with the rest of the Sephardic community throughout North Africa, Italy and the Ottoman Empire. Thus, today the name is almost exclusively associated with Jews of Sephardic origin, despite what the name itself suggests, and is most common in Israel, where most Jews of Sephardic origin live.
Leib is a given name, and a surname usually of Jewish origin. Leib often stems from לייב (leib), the Yiddish word for "lion". The Standard German word for lion is Löwe; other – partly dialectal – German forms of the word are Löw, Loew, Löb, Leb and Leib. In Standard German, Leib means "body", but that is in general not the source for the Yiddish name. Leib may also be connected to the Hebrew word לב, meaning "heart".
Heller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Ziskind Maimon was a Lithuanian Jewish author and scholar of the Talmud and Mishnah.
Ben-David is a Hebrew patronymic surname. In Hebrew, it means "son of David." It also refers to the descendants of King David. It is one of the most common surnames in Israel. It may refer to the following people:
Menahem or Menachem was a Jewish king.
Nissim or Nisim may refer to:
Judah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin. It is the English form of Yehudah (יְהוּדָה), the Hebrew name of the biblical figure Judah, founder of the Tribe of Judah and thus, the eponym of the Kingdom of Judah and the Jews.
Yehoshua Hanagid, alternative spelling: Jehoshua Hannagid (1310–1355), was a rabbinic scholar and judge, who began to serve as the Nagid in Cairo, Egypt, at the age of twenty-four. He was the fifth-generation descendant of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, the great Spanish Rabbi and philosopher. His full lineage is reckoned as Yehoshua, the son of Avraham, the son of David, the son of Avraham, the son Moshe ben Maimon.
Rabbi Maimon ben Joseph was a Spanish exegete, moralist and dayyan. He is best known as the father of Maimonides. His teacher was the respected scholar Joseph ibn Migash. He authored a commentary, in Arabic, on the Pentateuch, and also wrote on Jewish ritual and festival law.
Shimshon (Samson) ben Mordechai of Slonim, was an 18th-century rabbi, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. He was one of the leaders of Haskalah and the Misnagdim, and was influenced by the Vilna Gaon. He was the Av Beit Din of Slonim and Königsberg and is thought to have been descended from Shimshon Loew ben Bezalel, the Maharal of Prague's brother, through his grandson, Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli.