Hachmei Provence
Hachmei Provence (
Tosafists. The phrase means "wise ones of Provence"; hakham "wise one, sage" is a Sephardic and Hachmei Provençal term for a rabbi
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In matters of
Tosafists
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The term "Provence" in Jewish tradition is not limited to today's administrative region of
Hebrew and Old Occitan), Lunel (which is informally transliterated Lunil), and the city of Montpellier, not far (7 km) from the Mediterranean coast. It also included cities which at that time formed part of the Catalonia's political and cultural domain, such as Perpignan. In some ways, the Jewish traditions of Catalonia were closer to those of Provence than to those of the Kingdom of Castile and al-Andalus
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There was a distinctive Provençal liturgy used by the Jews of the Papal enclave of Comtat Venaissin, who remained following the expulsion of the Jews from the rest of France.[1] This liturgy was intermediate in character between the Sephardi rites and the Nusach Ashkenaz, and was in some ways closer to the Italian rite than to either.
After the French Revolution, when Venaissin was annexed by France, the Provençal rite was replaced by the Portuguese Sephardic liturgy, which is used by the Jews of Carpentras today.
Partial list
Hachmei Narbonne
- Moses ha-Darshan
- Makhir of Narbonne and his great family.
- Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi
- Joseph Kimhi and sons David Kimhi and Moses Kimhi.
- Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne
- Isaac ben Merwan ha-Levi
- Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen
Lunel
- Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona the Baal haMaor.
- , the source for the city-name Lunel).
- Yonatan HaKohen of Lunel.
- Abba Mari haYarhi, and his son Isaac.
- Meshullam ben Jacob
- Asher ben Meshullam
- Rava Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi) (disputed[citation needed])
Montpellier
- Solomon of Montpellier who led the movement against Maimonides.
Rest of Provence
- Abraham ben David known as the RABaD or RABaD III
- His son Isaac the Blind a famous Kabbalist
- Menachem Meiri
- Nathan ben Meir of Trinquetaille
- Shem-Tob ben Isaac of Tortosa
- The famous family Ibn Tibbon
- Caslari family of Carpentras
- Bonet de Lattes
- Jacob Anatoli
- Gersonides
- Gerson ben Solomon of Arles
- Abraham Bedersi
- Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi
Members of the Kalonymus Family
References
- Y. Maser (2016), Les rabbins du Sud de la France au Moyen Age et leurs écrits. Les Sages de Provincia. Institut R' Yesha'ya Bakish, Hotsaat Bakish, Montpellier, 118 p. ISBN 979-10-90638-06-8
- ^ For this liturgy, see Seder ha-Tamid Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Avignon 1776.