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Joseph ibn Yahya ben Solomon

Rav Yosef ibn Yachya ben Shlomo — a talmid of the Rashba who wrote the kinah on his rebbe's passing.

Acharonim · c. 1500-1900 CE

Biography

Rav Yosef ibn Yachya ben Shlomo, whose name appears in English sources as Joseph ibn Yahya ben Solomon, was a talmid of the Rashba, Rav Shlomo ben Aderet, and composed a kinah upon his rebbe’s passing that was later reprinted. He also bore the cost of repairing a shul in Calatayud (province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain) that one of his forebears had built.

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Joseph ibn Yahya ben Solomon was a prominent Portuguese biblical commentator.

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