Nahmanides [Nah-man-nid-ez] (רבי משה בן נחמן), also known as
Rabbi Moses ben Naḥman Girondi,
Bonastruc ça (de) Porta and by his acronym
Ramban (;1194–1270), was a leading medieval Jewish scholar,
Spanish Sephardic rabbi,
philosopher,
physician,
kabbalist, and
biblical commentator. He was raised, studied, and lived for most of his life in
Girona,
Catalonia,
Spain