Isaac ben Jacob Canpanton (1360–1463) (
Hebrew
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: יצחק קנפנטון) was a Spanish rabbi. He lived in the period darkened by the outrages of
Ferrand Martinez Ferrand may refer to:
*Clermont-Ferrand, a city
* Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral
*Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport
* Clermont-Ferrand Sports Hall
People
* Adèle Ferrand (1817–1848), painter
* André Ferrand (born 1936), French politician
* Ant ...
and
Vicente Ferrer, when intellectual life and
Talmudic
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erudition were on the decline among the
Jews of Spain
While the history of the Jews in the current-day Spanish territory stretches back to Hebrew Bible, Biblical times according to legendary Jewish tradition, the settlement of organised Jewish communities in the Iberian Peninsula possibly traces bac ...
. The historiographers
Immanuel Aboab
Immanuel Aboab ( 1555 – 1628) was a Portuguese Jewish scholar. He was a great-grandson of Isaac Aboab of Castile (died 1493).
Life
Born at Porto, he early became an orphan and was reared by his grandfather Abraham Aboab. He emigrated to Ital ...
(''Nomologia,'' ii. 2),
Zacuto
Abraham Zacuto ( he, , translit=Avraham ben Shmuel Zacut, pt, Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto; 12 August 1452 – ) was a Castilian astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian who served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal.
...
(''Yuḥasin,'' ed.
Filipowski, p. 226b; compare ''Seder ha-Dorot,'' pp. 27b, 28a), and
Joseph ben Zaddik
Joseph ben Tzaddik was a rabbi in Arevalo, in Spain, during the fifteenth century. He was the author of a treatise entitled ''Zeker Ẓaddiḳ'', on ritual matters, in fifty chapters, which by 1900 was still in manuscript. The last chapter contai ...
(Neubauer, ''Anecdota Oxoniensia,'' i. 99) unite in designating Canpanton as a
gaon, Aboab stating that he was styled "the gaon of
Castile". Among his pupils may be mentioned Samuel (ibn Sadillo) al-Valensi,
Isaac Aboab, and Isaac De Leon.
[Gross, Avraham, "''Kavvim LeToldot HaYeshivot BeMeah Ha-15'' (An Outline of History of the ]Yeshivot
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in the 15th Century)" (Hebrew). in ''Pe'amim'' 31, 3-21 (1987). He died at
Peñafiel in 1463.
He left but one work, ''Darche ha-Gemara,'' or ''Darche ha-Talmud'' ("A Methodology of the
Talmud
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"), which is an important contribution to the subject, as it attempts to be a practical guide for those who are called upon to teach the Talmud. It was published at Constantinople, ca. 1520; Venice, 1565;
[דרכי התלמוד / שעשה ... כמהר"ר יצחק קאנפנטון ...Mantua, 1593]
Amsterdam, 1706, 1711, 1754; Vienna, 1891 (edited by Isaac H. Weiss)
Jerusalem, 1981
an
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
* Grätz, ''Gesch. der Juden,'' 3d ed., viii. 217 et seq.;
*Jellinek Jellinek is a Germanized variant of the Czech name Jelínek meaning "little deer" (diminutive of ''jelen''). When used as a kinnui, it refers to the Biblical allusion to Naphtali. Notable people with the surname include:
* Adolf Jellinek (1821–1 ...
, קונטרס הכללים, p. 6, Vienna, 1878.
References
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1360 births
1463 deaths
15th-century Castilian rabbis
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