(Ramban) Moshéh ben Najmán

A journey · 6 stops

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1. Girona 1194 – 1262
Physician and leader of the Jews of Catalonia, he writes his commentaries on the Torah and the Talmud here, bringing Kabbalah into Torah study.
2. Barcelona 1263 – 1263
King James I orders him to debate the convert Pablo Christiani in public. He speaks freely, and the king gives him a gift of money for arguing so well.
3. Girona 1264 – 1266
He publishes an account of the debate. The Dominicans bring charges against him, and at about seventy he is forced to leave Spain.
4. Acre 1267 – 1267
He lands in the Crusader kingdom's main port, and is finally in the land he has written of with such longing.
5. Jerusalem 1267 – 1268
He finds a ruined city, with just two Jewish brothers working as dyers. He restores a community and a synagogue, which still bears his name.
6. Acre 1268 – 1270
He leads the community and teaches here in his final years, and dies in the land around the year 1270.