Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bohemian rabbi, mystic and philosopher (born 1520)

Judah Loew ben Bezalel

Czech rabbi and Kabbalist (d. 1609)

Judah Loew ben Bezalel, also known as Rabbi Loew, the Maharal of Prague, or simply the Maharal, was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia…