Maharal

Proper noun

Maharal

1. (often, with-definite-article) 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).
   • 1988 [Harper & Row], Howard Schwartz, Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, 1991, Oxford University Press, Paperback Edition, page 145,
     Now during the days preceding the time of Mordecai's Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, known as the Maharal, had a series of dreams that had come...
   • 1995 [Yale University Press], David B. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe, 2001, Wayne State University Press, Paperback Edition, page 65,
     Two other studies of the Maharal take Ben Sasson's position. The first is Aharon Kleinberger's extensive comparison of the...

   Synonyms:

   Maharal of Prague