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	Hasdai Crescas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hadai Crescas came from a family of scholars; he was a disciple of the Talmudist and philosopher Nissim ben Reuben, known as The RaN.
		While Crescas did not occupy an official position as rabbi, he seems to have been active as a teacher.
		Crescas' object in writing what is virtually an apologetic treatise on Judaism was to present the reasons which held the Jews fast to their ancestral faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasdai_Crescas (555 words)

	maimonides - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Crescas bucked the eclectic trend by demolishing the certainty of the Aristotelian world view not only in religious matters, but even in the most basic areas of medieval science (such as physics and geometry).
		Crescas' critique provoked a number of 15th century scholars to write defenses of Maimonides.
		These principles were controversial when first proposed, evoking criticism by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo, and were effectively ignored by much of the Jewish community for the next few centuries.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/maimonides (2502 words)

	Re: Hasdai Crescas
		Crescas, by contrast, argued in the preface to his Or Adonai that it is absurd to speak of a divine commandment to believe in the existence of God, since such a belief cannot be a commandment itself, but must be a presupposition for any commandment.
		Crescas refutes the Aristotelian arguments against the existence of a vacuum and suggests that a medium is not a necessary condition of either motion or weight.
		Crescas does, however, recognize one short proof of the existence of God: Regardless of whether causes and effects in the world are finite or infinite, there must be one cause of all of them as a whole.
	www.dvjc.org /discussion/messages/323.html (3859 words)

	HASDAI BEN ABRAHAM CRESCAS - LoveToKnow Article on HASDAI BEN ABRAHAM CRESCAS
		The work of Crescas, though it had no immediate success, ended in effecting its liberation.
		Thus he based Judaism on love, not on knowledge; love was the bond between God and man, and mans fundamental duty was love as expressed in obedience to Gods wifi.
		Spinoza derived from Crescas his distinction between attributes and properties; he shared Crescass views on creation and free will, and in the whole trend of his thought the influence of Crescas is strongly marked.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CR/CRESCAS_HASDAI_BEN_ABRAHAM.htm (660 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Ideas & Belief: The Problem of Free Will: Medieval Solutions
		Crescas admits that, since his choices are determined by God's foreknowledge, man is not really free, and is obliged to face the problem of why, if this is so, there are rewards for virtuous living and punishments for vicious living.
		Crescas tries to deal with this further problem by suggesting that the promise of reward and the threat of punishment are only to spur a man on to choose virtue and reject sin.
		Crescas is as unconventional in his qualification of human free will as is Gersonides in his qualification of divine foreknowledge.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /ideas_belief/freewill/FW_Solutions_TO/FW_Medieval_Jacobs.htm (1048 words)

	Crescas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crescas is a Jewish family name, there have been a number of writers and rabbis, including:
		Abiatharibn Crescas Ha-Kohen, doctor to King Juan II.
		Meshullam ben Machir, Don Bonet Crescas de Lunel, French scholar who settled at Perpignan, where he died in 1306
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crescas (127 words)

	Crescas
		Crescas is known for his polemics against Aristotelian philosophy (adopted by Maimonides and Gersonides) and christianity.
		Crescas saw the principle beliefs of christianity lieing in original sin and redemption from it, trinity and incarnation, virgin birth and transubstantiation, baptism and messianism, a new book of laws and 'demons'?
		Harry Austryn Wolfson, Crescas's Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle's Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge, 1929) Hasdai Crescas, The Refutation of the Christian Principles, tr.
	www.generation-online.org /p/pcrescas.htm (233 words)

	Maimonides - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The most rigorous medieval critique of Maimonides is Hasdai Crescas' OrHashem.
		Crescas bucked the eclectic trend by demolishing the certainty of the Aristotelian world view not only in religiousmatters, but even in the most basic areas of medieval science (such as physics and geometry).
		These principles were controversial when first proposed, evoking criticism by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo, and they were ignored bymuch of the Jewish community for the next few centuries.
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Maimonides (2574 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Crescas, Hasdai ben Abraham (1340-1412) Jewish poet and philosopher.
		An outspoken opponent of the Aristotelian philosophy of Maimonides and Gersonides, Crescas argued in Or Adonai (The Light of the Lord)...
		Crescas is een onafhankelijk instituut voor Joodse educatie aan volwassenen en heeft geen formele binding met Ã©Ã©n van de...
	crescas.iqexpand.com (339 words)

	Maimonides: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The most rigorous medieval critique of Maimonides is Hasdai Crescas (Hasdai Crescas: there have been a number of jewish writers and rabbis in the crescas family, including:...
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		A translation of Crescas was written by Harry Austryn Wolfson (Harry Austryn Wolfson: harry austryn wolfson (november 2 1887-september 19, 1974) was a scholar,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/maimonides (3739 words)

	Jewish Astronomy in Sefarad (Spain)
		Crescas may thus have greatly contributed to the demolition of Aristotelian "authority", a crucial factor in the rise of modern science [20].
		Crescas lost a son in the anti-Jewish riots of 1391.
		The last Jewish astronomer in Spain to have a large crater on the Moon named after him is Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515), who studied at the University of Salamanca and later became a Professor of Astronomy [21].
	wise-obs.tau.ac.il /judaism/sefarad.html (3574 words)

	Hasdai Crescas: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (c, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Hadai Crescas came from a family of scholars; he was a disciple of the Talmud (The collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism)
		Crescas was a man of means, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/hasdai_crescas (1322 words)

	Siris: Spinoza on Infinite Regress Arguments
		It means that I'll certainly have to look at what Hasdai Crescas (one of the great Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages) actually says on the subject, to see how much of this is Rab Hasdai and how much is Spinoza's interpretation of him.
		Spinoza is right that the usual reasons given for the impossibility of infinite regress are (1) that infinite regression of the given sort of cause involves a contradiction; and (2) that it is impossible for an actually infinite multitude, of the sort infinite regress requires, to exist.
		Without having Crescas before me, however, I rather suspect that Spinoza may have misread him; the only reason I have for thinking so is that people have occasionally misinterpreted Aquinas this way -- any elaboration of (1) will look superficially like the other.
	branemrys.blogspot.com /2005/10/spinoza-on-infinite-regress-arguments.html (567 words)

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		These two assumptions - of movement and lack of place - were contradictory: one of them had to be rejected.
		In his Or Adonai of circa 1400, Hasdai Crescas criticised Aristotle's account of place in great detail (not the least of his objections being that the place of a whole would necessarily be less than that of a part of it).
		Generally speaking, it seems skepticism of the notion of the universe being moved persisted over the years, even being condemned in 1277 at Paris (proposition 49 reading Quod Deus non possit movere Coelum motu rectu.
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	harvey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This fall, he is serving as a visiting fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
		A specialist in medieval and modern Jewish philosophers such as Maimonides and Spinoza, Harvey is the author of "Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas."
		The talk is sponsored by the Judaic studies program and is free and open to the public.
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	crescas - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word crescas:
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		Phrases that include crescas: crescas hasdai ben abraham, hasdai ben abraham crescas, chasdai crescas
	www.onelook.com /?w=crescas (82 words)

	Lasker, Daniel J.
		Hasdai Crescas' Bittul Iqqarei Ha-Nozrim, Ramat Gan and Beer Sheva: Bar-Ilan University Press and Ben-Gurion University Press, 1990 ; second printing, 2002 (Hebrew).
		The Refutation of the Christian Principles by Hasdai Crescas, Albany: SUNY- Albany Press, 1992.
		Aviezer Ravitzky, Crescas' Sermon on the Passover and Studies in his Philosophy, Jewish Quarterly Review, 83:1-2 (July-October 1992): 226-228.
	hsf.bgu.ac.il /djt/sfiles/lasker.aspx (2751 words)

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		Spinoza derived from Crescas his distinction between attributes and properties; he shared Crescas's views on creation and See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COR_CRE/CRESCAS_HASDAI_BEN_ABRAHAM_1340.html (266 words)

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		It is rare to walk into a school and see pictures of Ibn Ezra, Hasdai Crescas, R. Yonah Ibn Janah, Rav Hayim Heller, Prof.
		Hasdai Crescas and Rav Yehuda Halevi did not bequeath us teshuvot on Treifot and Ribit, while the Shakh and Rav Hayim Ozer did not write Piyutim or philosophical works reconciling classical philosophy or modern psychology with traditional Judaism.
		Many avenues were open to our best and brightest, and we are all richer for the contributions that different people with different talents and predilections have made to the tapestry of Torah.
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		He was heavily influenced by Jewish writers: Maimonides, Moses of Cordova, and Hasdai Crescas, the latter two he gleaned much of his pantheistic concepts from.
		He was certainly influenced by Plato, Philo and Plotinus, as well as the scriptures of his youth: the Talmud and the Kabbala.
		Spinoza was struck by Moses of Cordova's indentification of God and the universe; and Hasdai Creccas's belief that the universe of matter was the body of god.
	www.candleinthedark.com /spinoza.html (6521 words)

	Prof. Sara Klein-Braslavy
		Crescas: Crescas and his Predecessors on Providence; Crescas' Theory of Human Choice; Crescas' Theory of Prophecy; Purposefulness of the Torah according to Crescas.
		Readings in Albo's Book of Roots; Theories of Soul in Jewish Medieval Philosophy; Theories of "Principles of Faith" in Jewish Medieval Philosophy; Theories of Divine Attributes in Jewish Medieval Philosophy; Philosophical Interpretations of the book of Job in Jewish Medieval Philosophy.
		'The Influence of R. Nissim Gerondi on Crescas' and Albo's "Principles of Faith"', Eshel Beer-Sheva - Studies in Jewish Thought, II (1980), pp.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/jewish_philosophy/segel/sklein-eng.html (1097 words)

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		Thinkers studied include Saadiah Gaon, Bahya Ibn Paquda, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, Hasdai Crescas and Spinoza.
		Topics to be investigated include: Epistemology (theories of knowledge), the relationship between reason and revelation, divine providence, free will, prophecy, miracles, the soul, and ultimate human felicity.
		371-90 Abraham Bibago, The Way of Faith, (packet, 282/1-282/5) 12/2 Hasdai Crescas James T. Robinson, “Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism,” Cambridge Comapnion, pp.
	www.brandeis.edu /departments/nejs/courses/Syllabus/NEJS157bFall2005.doc (1238 words)

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		Such authorities as Yahudah Halevi in Sefer Hakuzari, (1) R”an in his drashot, (2) Hasdai Crescas and Ramban all derive this fundamental principle of hashgacha pratit, G-d’s individual providence, from the Exodus.
		For example Hasdai Crescas writes in his introduction to Ohr Hashem: ” ‘I am the Lord your G-d’ Behold, the word “G-d” (power) [elohut] means that He is free to act on all existence.
		And according to this ‘who took you out of Egypt.’ is a proof to this belief.
	danzig.jct.ac.il /personal/shemot_E_.html (1179 words)

	Re: Hasdai Crescas
		In Reply to: Re: Hasdai Crescas posted by Ethel Jean Saltz on December 22, 19100 at 10:25:57:
		I would like to add three more arguments for an English translation of OR ADONAI (Crescas's critique of Aristotle) and additionally cite another wish, the English translation of Spinoza's critique of Descartes.
		I am forever grateful to the American Bible Society which has gifted me with my additional heritage, the deuterocanonical/apocrypha via the GOOD NEWS BIBLE.
	www.dvjc.org /discussion/messages/427.html (618 words)

	Mail.Liberal-Judaism Volume 13 Number 45
		RaMBaM represents the 1100's, >Crescas reps the 1400's.
		This means there's 400 years of activity concerning RaMBaM's >world view that we don't learn about.
		Ethel jean saltz <nietgal@airmail.net> wrote : >I don't think we can discuss all this Jewishly without also translating >Rabbi Hasdai Crescas's OR ADONAI.
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	A Faith for Moderns - Questia Online Library
		They have not only conceded but emphasized that God's foreknowledge implies man's predestination, so that man's fate is predestined for him.
		That was the position adopted by such varied figures as Mohammed, the medieval Jewish philosopher Hasdai Crescas, and the Protestant theologian John Calvin.
		Undoubtedly, this solved the problem, but at a very high cost, for as we have already noted, the moral system demands man's
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	Phil 234/JWST250 Fundamental Concepts of Judaism Charles Manekin
		The course will examine three hundred years of Jewish philosophy from Maimonides to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
		Attention will be paid to Maimonides and the post-Maimonidean thinkers Abner of Burgos, Moses of Narbonne, Levi Gersonides, Hasdai Crescas, and Joseph Albo.
		Topics to be discussed will be: the existence of God, creation, providence, prophecy, free will, and Divine knowledge.
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