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    Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
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  • Crescas (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkɾeskəs], Hebrew: קרשקש) is a Judaeo-Catalan family name, prominent in the former Crown of Aragon. Crescas is a common...
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  • line of Anan ben David Hasdai Crescas (born c. 1340; died 1410/11), Jewish philosopher and halakhist (teacher of Jewish law) Hasdai ibn Shaprut (born c....
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    (Hebrew: אור אֲדֹנָי), The Light of the Lord, is the primary work of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340 - 1410/1411), a Jewish philosopher. As some Jews prefer to...
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    16th century. Hasdai Crescas was a student of Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi, who in turn was a student of Reuben ben Nissim Gerondi. Crescas was a rabbi and...
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  • substratum in actuality, is that which sustains the specific form — Hasdai Crescas Hasdai Crescas imagines that celestial-body is like Hylé but as matter in actuality...
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    is free and consequently God does not have complete knowledge, and Hasdai Crescas, who wrote in Or Adonai that God has complete foreknowledge and consequently...
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    Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut (Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט; Arabic: حسداي بن شبروط, Abu Yussuf ibn Shaprut) born about 915 at Jaén, Spain;...
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  • the possibility that they can be infinite simultaneously? — Hasdai Crescas Hasdai Crescas in "Or Hashem" explains that over the limits of world of finitude...
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    championship of the Maimonidean 13 articles of belief against the attacks of Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo, ends with the statement that Maimonides compiled these...
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    Don Hasdai Crescas in the winter of 1391 concerning the events in Spain in the year 1391. The letter is dated 19 October 1391. According to Don Hasdai Crescas...
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    Notzrim continued to be used of Christians in the medieval period. Hasdai Crescas, one of the most influential Jewish philosophers in the last years of...
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    Jews. The most rigorous medieval critique of Maimonides is Hasdai Crescas' Or Adonai. Crescas bucked the eclectic trend, by demolishing the certainty of...
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  • science, mathematics, theology and philosophy. Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406). Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340 – c. 1411). Jewish philosopher. Gemistus Pletho (c. 1355 –...
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    Principles') is a fifteenth-century work by rabbi Joseph Albo, a student of Hasdai Crescas. It is an eclectic, popular work, whose central task is the exposition...
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  • Hamekane, the works of ibn Shaprut, Moses ha-Kohen de Tordesillas, and Hasdai Crescas.[citation needed] The name Yeshu is unknown in archeological sources...
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    of Arab Aristotelians. His teacher was Hasdai Crescas, author of Or Adonai. Opinions vary on whether Crescas was still alive when Sefer HaIkkarim was...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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  • Madaula [ca] as Hasdai Crescas, Jewish money changer. Paula Iwasaki as Raquel Crescas, Hasdai's daughter. Anna Cortés as Raquel Crescas (child). Igor Szpakowski [es]...
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    more thorough systematic form derived from Aristotle. Accordingly, Hasdai Crescas mentions Ibn Daud as the only Jewish philosopher among the predecessors...
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    converts were called conversos, or New Catholics. According to Don Hasdai Crescas, persecution against Jews began in earnest in Seville in 1391, on the...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    endorsed. In Maimonides' time, his list of tenets was criticized by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo. Albo and the Raavad argued that Maimonides' principles...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera Gersonides Moses of Narbonne Isaac ben Sheshet Hasdai Crescas Joseph Albo Elia del Medigo Judah Minz Isaac Abarbanel Judah Leon Abravanel...
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    all the species of perfections. This is what we wished to establish — Hasdai Crescas God is “the simplest” because He is One, but He has power, knowledge...
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