Johanan Luria
Personal
Bornc. 1445
Landau
Died1511
Worms
ReligionJudaism
ChildrenAaron
Rivka
Parents
  • Aaron Luria (father)
  • Miriam Spira (mother)

Johanan ben Aaron ben Nathanael Luria (Hebrew: יוחנן בן אהרן בן נתנאל לוריא) was an Alsatian Talmudist. He lived successively at Niedernheim and Strasburg at the end of the fifteenth century and in the beginning of the sixteenth. After having studied for many years in German yeshivot, he returned to Alsace and settled in Strasburg, where he founded a yeshiva by permission of the government. Luria was the author of an ethical work entitled "Hadrakah" (Cracow, c. 1579) and of "Meshibat Nefesh" (Neubauer, "Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. in the Bodleian Library" No. 257), an aggadic and mystical commentary on the Pentateuch, founded on Rashi. To this commentary was appended a dissertation in which Luria refuted the arguments advanced by Christians against Judaism.[1]

His father Aaron ben Nathanael Luria is often cited as the first Luria and the progenitor of this family.[2][3] One of his descendants was Elijah Loans.[4]

Johanan had two brothers, Yechiel Yehuda and Judah "the physician". Yechiel Yehuda had four children, including Dreizel Miriam Zeisel Luria (Rema's grandmother) and Julia-Malka Luria (Meir Katzenellenbogen's mother).

References

  1. ↑  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Johanan ben Aaron ben Nathanael Luria". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved Jan 18, 2015.
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  2. ↑ Dr. Paul Jacobi, "The Historicity of the RaSHI Descent", Avotaynu - vol VI No. 1 p23
  3. ↑ "חבל הכסף - ישראל זאב גוטמאן (page 106 of 320)". www.hebrewbooks.org. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
  4. ↑ Public Domain Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "LOANS, ELIJAH BEN MOSES ASHKENAZI or LOANZ". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Retrieved Jan 21, 2015.
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