Biblical commentary, philosophy and halakha
As a commentator he keeps to the plain sense of Scripture, yet does not shrink from disagreeing with Rashi, Ibn Ezra, the Rambam and the Ramban and offering independent interpretations. In his introduction he wrote that he accepts the good and rejects the bad without regard to who says it.
A rabbi, biblical commentator, liturgical poet and philosopher, most likely born in Venice, who studied in Salonica under Rabbi Yosef Taitazak. He served as a judge in Cairo, lived in Cyprus and Italy, and finally was rabbi of the city and of the province in Posen and moved to Kraków, where he died in 1585. His main book, Ma’asei HaShem, is a commentary on the Five Books of the Torah that includes a commentary on the Passover Haggadah, and he also wrote Yosef Lekach on the Book of Esther.
includes 3 inspiration linksThe generations follow the Rambam’s introduction to the Mishneh Torah. A dashed line is inspiration, not direct transmission.