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Rabbi Moses ben Nahman (c. 1194-1267), rabbi, commentator, Kabbalist, and public leader, was one of the most prominent and influential Jewish figures in the Middle Ages. His diverse works reflect the history of Jewish communities in Western Europe in the thirteenth century and particularly the story of his own life. This book seeks to illuminate Nahmanides' works and beliefs, on the background of the challenges during his life. How was his thought formed, and what were its sources? In what stage of his life was he acquainted with the Kabbalah? To what extent was his immigration to Eretz Israel the consequence of Barcelona disputation? This book offers a new – historical-biographical – perspective for understanding Nahmanides' religious and intellectual world.
David Lemler, Revue des études juives 182/3-4, juillet-décembre 2023 (French)
"Yisraeli’s intellectual biography of Nahmanides sheds new light on this 'genius at the crossroads' of the various streams of Jewish thought that collided in thirteenth-century Western Europe. Nahmanides drew upon a broad spectrum of learning: talmudic scholarship, peshat exegesis, philosophy, and Kabbalah, and from a wide range of sources: the Geonic school, the Andalusian school (especially Ibn Ezra and Maimonides), the Provençal school, Rashi and the Tosafists, and Hasidei Ashkenaz". - Mordechai Z. Cohen, Tradition, January 2023
"What were the main influences on Ramban’s thought? How did his own fascinating biography leave its mark on his philosophical positions? How did Jewish mysticism come to play such a significant role in his worldview? What did he set out to accomplish in his monumental Torah commentary? These questions and others are tackled by Oded Yisraeli in this new biography of Ramban." - "New and Noteworthy", Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, June 2021