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Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona
12th century Catalonian rabbi and poet
Zerachiah ben Isaac ha-Levi Gerondi (Hebrew: זרחיה הלוי), called the ReZaH, RaZBI or Baal Ha-Maor (author of the book Ha-Maor) was born about 1115 in the town of Girona in the Kingdom of Aragon (now Catalonia), hence the name Gerondi. He died after 1186 in Lunel in Provence. He was a famous hakham, Torah and Talmud commentator, and a poet.
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