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Zemah (Hebrew: צמח, literally: plant; also spelled Tzemach, Tzemah, Zemach) may refer to: Zemah ben Hayyim, Gaon of Sura from 889 to 895 Zemah ben Paltoi...

Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah (17th century) was a Portuguese kabalist and physician. He received a medical training in his native country as a Marrano, but...

Rav Zemah ben Paltoi, also spelt Tzemach ben Poltoi, Zemaḥ Gaon, (Hebrew: צמח גאון בר מר רב פולטוי) (died 890 CE), was the Gaon of Pumbeditha from 872...

David Gans (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז; ‎1541–1613), also known as Rabbi Dovid Solomon Ganz, was a Jewish chronicler, mathematician, historian, astronomer...

Zemah ben Hayyim (Hebrew: צמח בן חיים), or sometimes Zemah b. Hayyim, was Gaon of Sura from 889 to 895. He was the stepbrother and successor of Nahshon...

Zion Tzemah (Hebrew: ציון צמח; born January 19, 1990) is an Israeli footballer who plays for Maccabi Sha'arayim as an attacking midfielder. Zion Tzemah...

Simeon ben Zemah Duran, also Tzemach Duran (1361–1444; Hebrew: שמעון בן צמח דוראן), known as Rashbatz (רשב"ץ) or Tashbatz, was a Rabbinical authority...

say that it was a tradition from Moses at Mount Sinai". Rabbi Simeon ben Zemah Duran likewise rejected the dogma of the 613 as being the sum of the Law...

his responsum offered verbal and textual comments on the Talmud. His son, Zemah ben Paltoi paraphrased and explained the passages which he quoted; and he...

"Thus says the Lord of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch (Hebrew: Zemah): for he shall branch out in his place, and he shall build the temple of...

Jewish philosophy (Hebrew: פילוסופיה יהודית) includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until modern Haskalah...

responsa of Menahem Ha-me'iri The anti-Christian polemic by Simeon ben Zemah Duran Maghain Aboth Synagogue, in Singapore Avot (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

Kabbalah spread, the title also became associated with it. Jacob ben Hayyim Zemah wrote in his glossa on Isaac Luria's version of the Shulchan Aruch that...

10a), Yechiel of Paris (cited Birkei Yosef, Oraḥ Hayyim 85:8), Simeon ben Zemah Duran, Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, and Moses Isserles (SA YD 276:13),...

Hasdai Crescas Aharon HaLevi (Ra'ah) Isaac ben Sheshet (Rivash) Simeon ben Zemah Duran (Tashbatz) Vidal of Tolosa (Maggid Mishneh) Joseph ibn Habib (Nimmukei...

857) Amram Gaon, Gaon of Sura (Gaon 857–875) Saadia Gaon (882/892 – 942) Zemah ben Hayyim (Gaon 889–895) Sherira Gaon (906–1006) Samuel ben Hofni (died...

(1832–1909), Sephardic Rabbi Ze'ev Ben-Haim (born 1907), Israeli linguist Zemah ben Hayyim (fl. 889–895), Gaon of Sura Zigi Ben-Haim (born 1945), American-Israeli...

antagonistic views towards the Kabbalah, and the son and successor of Simon ben Zemah Duran. Solomon was born in Algiers, and in his youth became familiar with...

Danan (15th century) Solomon ben Simon Duran (c. 1400 – 1467) Simeon ben Zemah Duran (1361–1444) Sidi Fredj Halimi (1876 – 1957) Maimun Najar (15th century)...

suggesting that he may have understood other languages as well. The gaon Ẓemaḥ ben Hayyim of Sura, whose opinion they had asked, soothed them by saying...