hasdai in a sentence

1. Many Jews died al kiddush haShem, among them Hasdai’s son.

2. Next, Hasdai relates his earlier efforts to get in touch with Joseph.

3. Hasdai Crescas (1340 - 1410) is best known for his Or Hashem (Light of the Lord).

4. He authorized Rabbi Hasdai Crescas to raise funds among Jewish communities in Aragon to help reestablish the destroyed communities in the said cities.

5. One of the eye-witnesses to these massacres and atrocities was the famed Rabbi and scholar Hasdai Crescas, whose son was among the martyrs in Barcelona.

6. While defending Maimonides against Hasdai and Albo, he refused to accept dogmatic articles for Judaism, criticizing any formulation as minimizing acceptance of all 613 mitzvot.

7. However, there are a few factual references, which indicate that Halevi had either read the correspondence between Hasdai and Joseph or had other sources of information about the Khazar country.

8. In a heartrending letter which he sent to the Jewish communities of Avignon, France, several months after the massacres, Rabbi Hasdai recounts the terrible tragedy that had befallen the Jews of Spain.