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Shalshelet HaKabbalah – Gedaliah ibn Yahya
PDF file size about 180 MB - may take a few minutes to load...Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph (גדליה אבן יחייא בן יוסף), born in Imola, Italy, 1515 or 1526, was a Talmudist and Biblical chronologist. He studied in the Yeshiva at Ferrara under Jacob Finzi and Abraham and...
Origins of Yahya, Charlap, and subsequent family branches
By Gil Dekel, PhD. This article[1] traces the origins of the Yahya family, and their descendants: the Charlap family and subsequent branches (Budowla, Danowitz, Kiejsmacher, Grapa, Kopyto, Kur, Kuropatwa, Lapin, Lew, Lewin, Mankuta, Pakciarz, Pasternak, Parczewski,...
The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXIX
By Arthur F. Menton and Dr. Gil Dekel for additional notes {in brackets}, corrections, and images. Chapter XXIX - The Family of Ze'ev Ben Avraham of Tykocin Page 483 Rabbi Ze'ev Ben Avraham Charlap and his wife Gittel established their home in Tykocin. Ze'ev...
אזכורי אנשים ממשפחת חרל”פ בפנקס קהל טיקטין, כרך א’, עם תאריכים ומספרי עמודים
מאת גיל דקל. חול המועד פסח, שנת תקי"ב, 1752.ר' ישכר חר"י חרל"פ.(עמוד 19 בפנקס) חול המועד פסח, שנת תק"ח, 1748.מר נחמן חר"ר חרל"פ.(עמוד 22) י"ב לעומר (כ"ז ניסן), שנת תק"ט, 1749.ר' אביגדור חרל"פ.(עמוד 27) ב' חול-המועד פסח, שנת תקל"ז, 1777.ר' יוזפא חרל"כ.יתכן שחרל"כ הינו...
The Historian R. Gedalya Ibn Yahya
By Dr. Abraham David. Edited by Dr. Gil Dekel. The closing period of the Middle Ages, from the Spanish Expulsion until the late sixteenth century, saw the appearance of Jewish historiographical compositions of varied length and quality. The majority were written by...
The Origin of the Surname Charlap – מקור השם חרל”פ
By Dr. Gil Dekel [לעיברית, ראו למטה] The Surname Charlap is acronym (such as the example of Rambam, which stands for Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon). There are several suggestions to the meaning of the acronym of Charlap. There are also two roles the name served: at first the...
In praise of women – the article of Rabbi Gedaliah Ibn Yahya (1526-1587)
By Gil Dekel, PhD Quite a few people in the Middle Ages believed that women are inferior to men, and that they possess a limited intellectual capacity. The article below is unique. Written in those Mediaeval times, it stands by women, describing their virtues and...
Charlap-Yahya family: lists of surnames adopted, and towns the family come from.
By Arthur F. Menton. Edited and updated by Dr. Gil Dekel. I have taken on the massive task of being the family historian. My mother's father was Isaac (Max) Sahr who came to the USA from Ciechanowiec, Poland in 1891. He died in 1949 when I was 16. I was his favourite...
The Kuzari book and the ibn Yahya family
By Dr. Gil Dekel When Yehuda Halevi’s philosophical book ha-Kuzari was completed circa 1140, the moveable-type printing press was not invented as yet. And so, the book was copied by hand for over 350 years. Then, in the year 1506, the book was finally printed for the...
King David Dynasty: the Charlap family ascension.
The ancestry lineage from King David down to the Exilarchs, Ibn Yahya (בן חיים) family, and Charlap (חרל”פ) family. — David, 2nd king of lsrael and Judah. b. ca 1040 B.C.E. Reigned ca 1004-968 {or 970, the year he died} B.C.E. {Reigned over the United Kingdom of Israel. Buried at King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel. דוד המלך. דָּוִד בֶּן יִשַׁי}.
The personal driver of the first President of Israel.
By Tikva Vineshtock, 2021. (Based on my column in ‘MaAriv’ newspaper, 17 November 1952.)Translated from Hebrew by Dr. Gil Dekel. [גרסא עיברית למטה] On 9 November 1952 (תשי"ג), Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel, passed away. Immediately I have...
Eliakim Carmoly – Sefer Divre Hayamim L’Bnei Yahya — אליקים כרמולי – ספר דברי הימים לבני יחייא
Introduction (translated from Hebrew): To delight my beloved ones and colleagues, I provide them today with the book about the lives of the Yahya family. In the following article (book) we will cover the lives of the people of this family, who was a respected family in the times of the Rambam (Moses ben Maimon).
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Daud – Sefer Hakabbalah — ספר הקבלה – רב אברהם בן-דוד
Rabbi Abraham Ibn-Daud - Sefer Hakabbalah. Sefer ha-Qabbalah. ספר הקבלה לרב אברהם בן דוד (ראב”ד) Rabbi Abraham Ibn-Daud (ben David) Halevi, known as Rabad (born circa 1110; died 1180). A prominent scholar and translator, arguably he “…introduced Arabic numerals and...
The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXVI
The four centuries that our ancestors spent in Spain roughly coincide with what has been called the Golden Age. It was the age of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Yehuda Halevi, and Maimonides.
The Book of Destiny – Toledot Charlap – Chapter XXV
Charlap {חרל”פ} was the ancestral honorary title of our family. {The surnames} Ser and Kiejsmacher were arbitrary names assigned near the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Charlaps were descended from King David. Relatives who belonged on totally different branches of the family tree and who had never had connections with one another presented documents claiming Davidic ancestry.