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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

medieval Jewish commentators, such as Abraham ibn Ezra, Rashi, Ramban, Radak, Sforno and Ralbag (Gersonides). The actual writing, which produced five volumes...