Sforno is the name of a prominent Jewish Italian family, many members of which distinguished themselves as rabbis and scholars. The most prominent of...

Jacob Sforno (Obadja Sforno, Hebrew: עובדיה ספורנו) was an Italian rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher and physician. A member of the Sforno family, he...

learned as a tradition that at that time Abraham was fifty-two years old. Sforno, Bereishit 12:5 Goldin, Shmuel. Unlocking the Torah Text Bereishit, Vol...

gives this interpretation in his commentary on the verse. Regarding this, Sforno states that "every disembodied creature is known as elohim; this includes...

best known for his popular commentary on the Mishnah Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (c. 1475–1550), Italian rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher and physician...

Hebrew books, including Rosh Emuna of Abravanel, the commentary of Obadja Sforno, and Midrash Rabba. He died in Brescia in 1594. ms61 – a translation into...

matters, and many rabbis consulted him, among them: Moses Alashkar, Obadiah Sforno, and his relative Moses Isserles (who addressed him as "rabbi of Venice")...

murdered in Auschwitz Joseph Pardo (1561–1619), rabbi Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno (1475–1550), rabbi, philosopher Elio Toaff (1915–2015), rabbi and former...

the law was connected to a prohibition of idolatry in Judaism. Obadiah Sforno and Solomon Luntschitz, rabbinic commentators living in the late Middle...

that remained was the removal of the priestly role from the firstborns. Sforno writes that Moses attempted to convince God that the priesthood should remain...