"Oded Yisraeli has written a penetrating intellectual portrait of a towering figure in all his developing complexity. This is a work of lasting significance."—David Berger, Yeshiva University "Refusing to reduce his perspective on Nahmanides—talmudist, polemicist, poet, community leader, exegete, and kabbalist—to one discipline or another, Yisraeli portrays a figure who leads, explores, and changes course over a remarkable lifetime. The most important rabbi of the thirteenth century, Nahmanides has finally gotten his biographical due."—Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
