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Avraham ibn Ezra
Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא ʾAvraham ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic: إبراهيم المجيد ابن عزرا Ibrāhim al-Mājid ibn Ezra; also known simply as Ibn Ezra, 1089 / 1092 – 27 January 1164 / 23 January 1167) was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages. He was born in Tudela in northern Spain.
Morning Baqashot | Motsei Shabbat | Nittel Nacht Readings | Se'udah haShlishit | Se'udat Yom Shabbat | Tishah b'Av
ABCB rhyming scheme | acrostic | Acrostic signature | Chess | cosmological | libi uv'sari | Mourning this Broken World | rhyming translation | אגדלך Agadelkha | זמירות zemirot | חורבן Ḥurban | חרוזים ḥaruzim | יציאת מצרים Yetsiat Mitsrayim | כי אשמרה שבת Ki Eshmerah Shabbat | נשמת כל חי Nishmat kol ḥai | ספר יצירה Sefer Yetsirah | פיוטים piyyuṭim | צמאה נפשי Tsamah Nafshi | קדיש ḳaddish | קינות Ḳinōt | רשות reshut | 12th century C.E. | 49th century A.M. | 50th century A.M. | Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) | Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE)
Israel Abrahams (translation) | David de Aaron de Sola (translation) | Thomas Hyde (Latin translation) | Gabriel Kretzmer Seed (translation) | Sara Lapidot (translation) | Tzvi Novick (translation) | Nina Davis Salaman (translation) | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | Avi Shmidman | Unknown (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
חֲרוּזִים עַל שְּׂחוֹק שָׁ״הּ־מָ״תּ | Rhymed Poem on Chess (long), by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.)
Contributed by Nina Davis Salaman (translation) | Thomas Hyde (Latin translation) | Avraham ibn Ezra | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
A poem on how to play chess, one of the oldest historical descriptions of the game of Chess, by Avraham ibn Ezra (12th century) . . .
