maharal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1988 [Harper & Row], Howard Schwartz, Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, 1991, Oxford University Press, Paperback Edition, page 145, Now during the days preceding the time of Mordecai's Bar Mitzvah, Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, known as the Maharal, had a series of dreams that had come to haunt him. In the first dream the Maharal found a letter nailed to his front door, like a proclamation, that stated that the life of the boy Mordecai, whose soul could bring great blessing to the Jewish people, hung in the balance, and that only the Maharal could save him."
- "1995 [Yale University Press], David B. Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe, 2001, Wayne State University Press, Paperback Edition, page 65, Two other studies of the Maharal take Ben Sasson's position. The first is Aharon Kleinberger's extensive comparison of the Maharal’s pedagogic views with those of the Bohemian reformer J. A. Comenius."
- "It would appear that this remark does not do justice to the place of the Kabbalah in the writings of the Maharal."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: מהר״ל