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Nahmanides (nähmän`ĭdēz), 1194–c.1270, Jewish scholar, exegete, and kabbalist, b. Spain. He wrote commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. A mystic, he rejected part of Maimonides' philosophy but recognized his greatness. He wrote an account of his disputation with the anti-Jewish agitator Pablo Christiani, which took place in the presence of King James I of Aragón. In 1267, Nahmanides settled in Palestine. He is also called Rabbi Moses Ben Nahman (abbreviated to Ramban).

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See C. B. Chavel, Ramban (1960).

Firestone noted that, "Many in this camp cite ad nauseum the now famous statement of Nahmanides in his gloss on Maimonides' Book of Commandments (positive commandment 4), who teaches that the conquest and settlement of the Land of Israel lies in the category of obligatory war (milhemet mitzvah).

Religious Extremism and Holy War: Jews as well as Muslims must put ... by Brownfeld, Allan C. / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

And perhaps this is as it should be: for as Wieseltier discovers early in his reading, Nahmanides said, "In the entire Torah there is no prohibition against mourning and there is no commandment to be consoled.

Kaddish by Madsen, Catherine / Cross Currents

Starting with Nahmanides, "the religious genius of Spanish Jewry in the thirteenth century," Wieseltier calls up an uncountable assemblage of rabbis from Akiva (who seems to be the source of the kaddish custom) through Maimonides, Rashi, Joseph Karo, Elaezar ben Judah of Worms - "the influential pietist and jurist of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries" known as "the Perfumer" - and on and on.

Kaddish by O'Brien, Dennis / Commonweal

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