English Explanatory Dictionary

Maharal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a Jewish mystic, philosopher and Talmudic scholar, and a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia (both in present-day Czech Republic).

Word forms

Maharal

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew מהר״ל, an acronym of מוֹרֵינוּ הַרָב לֵיווא (Moreinu Ha-Rav Loew, “our teacher Rabbi Loew”), referring to Judah Loew ben Bezalel (circa 1512-26–1609).

Synonyms

Maharal of Prague
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