Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Judah Loew ben Bezalel (; antara 1512 dan 1526 – 17 September 1609), juga disingkat menjadi Rabi Loew (alternatif: Löw, Loewe, Löwe atau Levai), Maharal dari Praha (), atau Maharal (akronim Ibrani dari "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew", 'Guru Kami, Rabi Loew'), adalah seorang cendekiawan Talmud, mistikus Yahudi, dan filsuf. Pada sebagian besar masa hidupnya, ia menjabat sebagai rabi utama di kota-kota Mikulov, Moravia dan Praha, Bohemia.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan
Byron L. Sherwin, Mystical Theology and Social Dissent: The Life and Works of Judah Loew of Prague (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982)
Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer, "Maharal's Conception of Law- Antithesis to Natural Law" Jewish Law Annual Vol. VI.
Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer, "Existence and Eschatology in the Teachings of the Maharal" Immanuel 14 (Spring 1982) 66–97; Immanuel 15 (Winter 1982-3) 62–72.
Moshe Zuriel "Numbers: Their meaning and Symbolism According to Maharal" [Hebrew] HaMaayan 18:3 (1978) 14–23; 18:4 (1978) 30–41, reprinted in Sefer Ozrot Gedolei Yisroel (Jerusalem:2000) volume 1, pp. 204–228.
Martin Buber, "The Beginning of the National Idea" On Zion: The History of an Idea. (New York, Schocken Books, 1973).
Otto Dov Kulka, "The Historical Background of the National and Educational Teachings of the Maharal of Prague" [Hebrew] Zion 50 (1985) 277–320.
Benjamin Gross, Netzah Yisrael (Tel Aviv: Devir, 1974)
Mordechai Breuer, "The Maharal of Prague's Disputation with Christians: A Reappraisal of Be'er Ha-Golah" in Tarbiẕ (1986) 253-260
Adlerstein Y. Be'er Hagolah: The Classic Defense of Rabbinic Judaism Through the Profundity of the Aggadah. New York, NY: Mesorah Publications, 2000. .
Aharon Kleinberger, The Educational Theory of the Maharal of Prague [Hebrew] (Magnes: 1962).
Andre Neher, Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution: David Gans (1541–1613) and his times (Oxford-New York: Littman Library, 1986)
Neher, Faust et le Maharal de Prague: le Mythe et le Reel (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1987);
Neher, Le Puits de l'Exil: la Theologie Dialectique du Maharal de Prague (Paris: A. Michel, 1996)
Neher, Mishnato shel ha-Maharal mi-Prague, Reʾuven Mass, c2003.
Gross, Benjamin, Yehi Or (Reʾuven Mass, 1995).
Gross, Benjamin, Netsah Yiśraʾel Tel Aviv : Devir, 1974.
Eliyahu Yaakov Deutsch, Shabbos Insights Of The Maharal Jerusalem: Targum, 2009.
Shulman, Yaacov Dovid (1992). The Maharal of Prague: The Story of Rabbi Yehudah Loew. CIS Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56062-168-3.

Pranala luar
YIVO Encyclopedia - Yehudah Leib ben Betsalel

Yehuda Loew — The Maharal jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Family tree
Shiurim on Derech Chaim at Torah.org

Sumber
Tiferet Yisrael, Hebrew Full-text

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