Newest questions tagged avraham-ibn-ezra - Mi Yodeya most recent 30 from 2020-01-19T12:51:36Z 2 According to Ibn Ezra should we not follow all the commandments? Turk Hill 2019-08-05T05:50:59Z 2019-08-08T23:45:33Z <p>In a question I asked (“<a href="">Health benefits for eating kosher</a>”), I wrote that ibn Ezra said that all the mitzvot have to have a rational explanation for them and if a single commandment went against reason (intelligence) then we should not observe it.</p> <p>DanF then made a thought-provoking comment.</p> <blockquote> <p>I rarely challenge someone on this site, but I will challenge you, here, to provide proof that Ibn Ezra said exactly this. Impossible. It has been said that even King Solomon could not understand the reasoning behind the red heffer (parah adumah), yet there are many mitzvot attached to it. The whole nature of a chok is based on a lack of "logical understanding.</p> </blockquote> <p>So is it true that according to Ibn Ezra we should not follow all the commandments?</p> 1 Are Abraham Ibn Ezra and Moshe Ibn Ezra related? [closed] Ben Notis 2019-05-13T19:46:40Z 2019-05-14T02:39:42Z <p>Are these two figures of Jew tradition related, and if so, can anyone point me to any encyclopedia articles which deal with this question?</p> 2 Clarification on Ben Ezra's cancellation of the idea of grammatical gender Al Berko 2019-01-26T20:11:40Z 2019-01-27T08:20:43Z <p>To continue the topic of "genders in Hebrew" I stumbled upon <a href=";with=all&amp;lang2=he" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Torah Temima's commentary on the Posuk "דרך ילכו בה" and his citation of Ben Ezra</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>"<strong>את הדרך ילכו בה.</strong><br> [מכאן דדרך לשון נקבה] כטמדלא כתיב ילכו בו ...<br> והנה כלל זה בכלל מסכים עם <strong>הנחת הראב"ע דכל דבר שאין בו רוח חיים זכרהו ונקבהו</strong>, כלומר אפשר לכתבו בלשון זכר ובלשון נקבה, אך לפלא שכל המדקדקים לא זכרו כלל זה דהגמרא כי באופן כזה הולכין אחר הענין שעליו מוסב שורש זה כמבואר, והוא מסתבר מאד."</p> <p>[My translation] ... this is consistent with Ben Ezra's assumption that inanimate objects can be assigned any gender.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is very new to me, I googled a bit and saw that many cite RaB"A with that rule (<a href="" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> for example).</p> <p>As I understand, this assumption completely contradicts the Gemmorah's long discussion in Kiddushin (2,2) about the gender of דרך - If the assumption was true there was no discussion at all.</p> <p>Can somebody clarify on this rule?</p> 1 Sources of Ibn Ezra in England [closed] mirab 2018-10-18T10:09:24Z 2018-10-18T10:39:52Z <p>I am looking for sources on ibn Ezra's travels and biography. In particular his visit or passage to England. Wiki states the he came to London and Oxford. Where would a more authentic source be found? </p> 4 Fourth Kingdom is Aram/Yishmael robev 2018-07-04T03:29:57Z 2018-07-04T09:28:56Z <p>Someone pointed out to me the commentary of Ibn Ezra to <a href="" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Daniel 2:39</a>. In that verse Daniel is understood to be describing the ארבע מלכיות or the four kingdoms. I always understood these four kingdoms to be those which took the dominion of the Jewish people away, and they are Babylon, Persia/Media, Greece and Rome (see beginning of <a href=",_Why_There_Exist_Four_Kingdoms.1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ner Mitzvah</a> by the Maharal). The Ibn Ezra says this verse references Babylon, Persia/Media and Greece. Part of my problem is I don't understand the rest of what he's saying.</p> <p>He brings Rav Saadiah Gaon who says the fourth kingdom is Aram. I thought they only existed in the times of Tanach? How could they come after Greece? He then also mentions Yishmael being one of the kingdoms, I think.</p> <p>The Ibn Ezra sounds like he disagrees, and says Alexander the Great was the ruler of Greece and Aram? Is that so? Then he says Yishmael is the fourth kingdom? What about Rome? Didn't they destroy the Temple?</p> <p>I'd appreciate some clarification on what the Ibn Ezra/Rav Saadiah Gaon are saying, and if anyone agrees.</p> 1 Ibn Ezra: Moshe = Monius? Renato Grun 2018-07-02T02:42:34Z 2018-07-02T03:45:55Z <p>Ibn Ezra in his <a href=";perek=2&amp;mefaresh=ezra" rel="nofollow noreferrer">commentary to Shemos 2:10</a> says that the name Moshe was a translation of the Egyptian "Monius". I have, then, two questions:</p> <p>1) Where does he get that his name was that? And 2) how is that related with something like "drawn from water"?</p> <p>Related: <a href="">Moses' Hebrew name was given to him in Egyptian?</a></p> 0 Harsh Critiques by Ibn Ezra [closed] רבות מחשבות 2018-01-26T05:11:45Z 2018-02-05T21:26:19Z <p>Can we attempt to compile a list of the sharp responses and lines by the Ibn Ezra throughout Tanach? These are valuable (to me, anyways) for a couple of reasons:</p> <ol> <li><p>Understanding what Ibn Ezra thought was important to demean, which leads us to a better understanding of his approach to Tanach in many cases (historical reasons, etc.).</p></li> <li><p>They may/likely fall into the categories of permitted Leitzanus/Milsa Debedichusa, which can be utilized in Divrei Torah or other cases.</p></li> </ol> 15 Finding a source for a statement attributed to Ibn Ezra Shimon bM 2018-01-02T03:10:48Z 2018-12-04T17:36:56Z <p>There is a phrase that is popularly attributed to Rabbi Avraham ibn Ezra. Apparently, it relates to a sugya in Hullin that concerns the permissibility of eating honey in which the legs of bees might have been found. Ibn Ezra is said to have responded:</p> <blockquote> <p>פרשנו: רעבתן שבדבש נתבער ונשרף</p> <p>We have explained it thus: the glutton [ie: the bee] in the honey is considered to have been destroyed and eradicated [lit. burned]</p> </blockquote> <p>There are multiple sources for this, but none of them cite the text in which it is published, and therefore fail to prove its association with Ibn Ezra. See <a href="" rel="noreferrer">here</a>, for example, and <a href="" rel="noreferrer">here</a>, and <a href=";forum_id=771" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <p>The amazing thing about this phrase, aside from its being a <strong>palindrome</strong>, is that it also forms a magic square (sometimes known in English as a <a href="" rel="noreferrer">sator square</a>). But did Ibn Ezra actually write it??</p> <p>People seem to think that he did, but my attempts at locating a single source by Ibn Ezra in which this phrase is featured have so far proven fruitless.</p> <p>Where did Ibn Ezra actually write this? Alternatively, what is the earliest (published) source for this statement's having been written by him?</p> 1 Shabbos sent a letter to Ibn Ezra SimchasTorah 2011-01-24T04:05:13Z 2018-12-05T04:47:30Z <p>I heard in a shiur that Shabbos sent a letter to Ibn Ezra. Can anyone find the text of the letter or if it exists, and/or summarize it and find out who the source for this legend is?</p>