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– Life is hard for geniuses. They’re different, they see what others can’t, and they challenge society’s norms. All this came into play for the genius Ibn Ezra, but by being chased from place to place, he built his sparkling legacy of Torah scholarship. Rabbi Wein recounts the turbulent life of this exceptional man.

• Ibn Ezra as world traveler
• Ibn Ezra as the bridge between Ashkenazim and Sephardim
• the tragedies of his children
• the role of poetry, philosophy, and Hebrew grammar to Sephardic Jewry