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    Judah Loew ben Bezalel

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    Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Hebrew: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; 1512[1] – 17 September 1609),[2] also known as Rabbi Loew (alt. Löw, Loewe, Löwe or Levai), the Maharal of Prague (Hebrew: מהר״ל מפראג), or simply the Maharal (the Hebrewacronym of "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew", 'Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew'), was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer,[3] and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.

    Loew wrote on Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism. His work Gur Aryeh al HaTorah is a supercommentary on Rashi's Torah commentary.

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    He is also the subject of a later legend that he created the Golem of Prague, an animate being fashioned from clay.[4]

    Name

    His name "Löw" or "Loew" is derived from the GermanLöwe, "lion" (cf.

    the YiddishLeib of the same origin). It is a kinn