Menahem Azariah da Fano

Menahem Azariah da Fano (* 1548, † August 5, 1620 in Mantua ), also called Immanuel because Fano, Hebrew acronym: רמ"ע Rama, was an Italian Kabbalist rabbis and Jewish scholars.

He came from the prestigious and wealthy Jewish- Italian family since Fano. First, he studied in Venice and later in Ferrara at Ishmael Ḥanina of Valmontone. Fano worked in various cities of northern Italy. In Reggio Emilia, he was chairman of a yeshiva. From there he moved to Mantua, where he experienced the earthquake in 1570. In 1575 he was to meet again in Venice. In Mantua erected and he led another yeshiva and drew students from all over Italy and Germany. Here he died in 1620.

Since Fano is considered a leading proponent of cabbalism of Moses Cordovero. Under the influence of Israel Sarug, he later turned increasingly to Lurianic direction. As one of the first he began to cabbalism in Italy to teach publicly. He has authored numerous papers on the topics of Halacha and Kabbalah. Among them protrude Sefer ' asara ma'amarot ( " Ten Treatises "), and his responsa (1600 in Venice, and in 1788 moved to Dyhernfurth ) out. He also was a verlegerisch active. Thus he allowed inter alia, the pressure of the Pardes Rimonim of Cordovero and Kesef Mishneh of Joseph Karo. Amadeo Recanati dedicated his Italian translation of the Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides. ( Printed in 1648 in Amsterdam) His theological treatise Jonat Elem received from the Kabbalistic scholar Isaiah Horowitz following praise: "The overwhelming majority of his words, perhaps all, are true and his Torah is true."

Literature (selection )

  • Alexander Altmann: [ remarks to the development of Kabbalah with Rabbi Menachem Azariah of Fano ] [Hebrew ], in: J. Dan / J. Hacker ( eds. ): Sefer Yishayahu Tishby, Magnes, Jerusalem 1986.
  • Robert Bonfil: Halakhah, kabbalah and society. Some insights into Rabbi Menahem Azariah da Fano 's inner world. In: Isadore Twersky, Bernard Septimus (eds.): Jewish thought in the seventeenth century. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, among other things, 1987, ISBN 0-674-47465-1 (Harvard Judaic texts and studies 6 ), pp. 39-61.
  • Different:. [New Rabbi Menahem Azariah da information about Fano and his time ] [Hebrew ], in: E. Etkes / Y. Salmon ( eds. ): Perāqīm be Toledot - hā - ḥebrāh haj - Yehudit b IME have - bēnajim ū ʿ ba - et ha - hadāšāh muqdāšīm le- Professor Yes ʿ aqōb Katz bi -MLE ʾ at ʿ Lo SIB in WE Hames - Sanah al - ʿ each talmīdāw we- ḥebrāw, Magnes, Jerusalem 1980, pp. 98-135.
  • Different:. Change in the Cultural Patterns of a Jewish Society in Crisis: Italian Jewry at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, in: Jewish History, 3/ 2 (1988 ), pp. 11-30.
  • Moshe Idel: Major Currents in Italian Kabbalah in between 1560 and 1660, in: Italia Judaica 2 (1986 ), pp. 243-262.
  • David Kaufmann: Menahem Azarya da Fano et sa famille, in: Revue des Études Juives ( REJ ) 35-36 ( 1915-1916 ), pp. 84-87, facsimiles.
  • Different:. Menahem de Fano et les ouvrages de Moise Corduero et d' Isaac Louria, in: REJ (1898 ), pp. 108-111.
  • Different:. Menahem Azaya de Fano, in: REJ (1900 ), pp. 113-118.
  • Ernst Müller, articles Menachem Azariah da Fano, in: Jewish Encyclopedia. Berlin 1927, Volume 2: A - C, Sp 587f.
  • Samuel Rosenblatt: Fano, MENAHEM Azariah DA. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition, Volume 6, Detroit / New York, among others 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865934-3, p 709 (English)
  • L. Woidislawski: Toledot Rabbi Menachem Azariah of Fano mi, Petrikau 1904 ( biography).
  • Salomon Wininger: Art in: Great Jewish National Biography, Vol 2 (1927 ), Orient, Cernăuţi, pp. 221-222
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