Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Hebrew: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; 1512 [1] – 17 September 1609), [2] also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrew acronym of " Moreinu ha-Rav Loew ", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew'), was an important ...

Rabbi Judah ben Bezalel Loew was born about the year 5285, probably in Posen. He became famous as a great Talmudic scholar at an early age. In his late twenties, he was invited to become the Rabbi in Nikolsburg, Moravia, a position which he held for about twenty years.

Rabbi Yehuda ben Betzalel Loew (1512 1 –1609), better known as the Maharal of Prague (M oreinu H a Rav L oew ["Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew"]) is considered one of the foremost Talmudists, Kabbalists and philosophers of all time.

JUDAH LOEW (Liwa, Loeb) BEN BEZALEL (known as Der Hohe Rabbi Loew and MaHaRaL mi-Prag; c. 1525–1609), rabbi, talmudist, moralist, and mathematician. Judah Loew was the scion of a noble family which hailed from Worms. His father, Bezalel b. Ḥayyim, was the brother-in-law of R. Isaac Klauber of Posen, the grandfather of Solomon *Luria.

Yehudah Loew of Prague, also known as the Maharal, was one of the outstanding Jewish minds of the sixteenth century. He wrote numerous books on Jewish law, philosophy, and morality, and developed an entirely new approach to the aggada of the Talmud.

Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1525 – 1609) was a major Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher. He is widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply the Maharal (מהר"לz) a Hebrew acronym of Moreinu ha-Rav Loew —"Our Teacher the Rabbi Loew."

Feb 11, 2025 · Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, known as the “Maharal” of Prague, died on this date in 1609. Legend and literature credit him with constructing and animating the Golem in order to protect and serve the Jewish community.

Moreinu Harav Loew was born on the night of Pesach, 1512, to a distinguished family of rabbis who traced their ancestry to King David. The youngest of four brothers, he married Pearl when he was 32.

Yehudah Leib (or Löw [Heb., Liva’]; Maharal is an acronym based on the honorific Morenu ha-Rav Liva’, “our teacher, the Rabbi Löw”) was respected as an important halakhist—he was cited as authoritative, for example, by Yo’el Sirkes in Bayit ḥadash —but his fame was the result of his theological works: he brought the medieval ...

Rabbi Judah Loew (1526?-1609) is most famous as the leader of the Prague Jewish community who created the Golem to protect local Jews.