**Raavad** the first is Rabbi Avraham bar Dior [(and in some books it is written bar David, which is a printing error)] ben Rav Yitzchak ben Rabbeinu Baruch, composed the book HaKabbalah. He wrote his book in the year 4920, and composed the book Emunah Ramah. [(He cited it in the book Akeidah, gate 2) dealing with matters of the soul and it is in manuscript.] And a book on the wisdom of astronomy in the year 4942.

And he was killed in Toledo for the sanctification of HaShem, and he was a Levite. And this is the Raavad that the Rambam mentions with praise and honor in a letter he wrote to his son. And the Raavad had an important student, a great sage, who was called Rabbi Meir. And in the letter that the Rambam wrote to Rabbi Shmuel ibn Tibon, who praised the wisdom of Rabbi Yehuda his father, he said that his wisdom testified to him about this Rabbi Meir, student of the great Rabbi, the Raavad who was in Pasikira, and he was also learned by the Raavad.

And this Raavad is not the author of the Criticisms, for he would not have praised him so much, because the Raavad did not respond to him as a lover and seeker of opinion but as an enemy and narrator of the praises of the Rambam, as is seen in most of his criticisms. And he was not in this generation [(see year 4958) Seder HaKabbalah chapter 42, page 71b. (What is written that he was in Pasikira needs investigation, for Raavad the second mentioned in 4958 was in Pasikira).

And in Yuchsin in Seder HaKabbalah of the Rema: Rabbi Avraham HaLevi ben David, a man of understanding and a sage expert in all wisdom, nephew of Rabbi Baruch bar Yitzchak the aforementioned. He composed the book HaKabbalah and the book Al Akirah Al Refiah and a book on astronomy and he sanctified HaShem and was buried in Toledo.

Thus concluded. What is written "ben David" is a printing error as mentioned. And what is written "nephew of Rabbi Baruch" - in Seder HaKabbalah it is written "ben Dior ben Rav Yitzchak bar Baruch" - one of them is not correct. And see Yuchsin in the later generations.

And in Siftei Yeshenim, Sha'ar Bat Rabim, it is written that Raavad the first lived in the year 4960. And this is not seen].

**Rabbeinu Bachya the Elder** bar Yosef composed the book Chovot HaLevavot in Arabic and Rabbi Yehuda ibn Tibon translated it into the Holy Language around the year 4921 [(Tzeda LaDerech and Seder HaKabbalah chapter 41). And the book Barchei Nafshi, ethics and prayers and hymns (printed 5588). And in Siftei Yeshenim in the keys it is 4926. And in the book Naftali in Simanim chapter Miketz, Rabbeinu Bachya ben Pekudah composed the book Chovot HaLevavot.

It is written in Baghdad that the grave of Rabbeinu Bachya and Chibakuk the prophet are there. And I am doubtful if this is this Bachya or the one mentioned in year 56 (of the sixth millennium)].

**Rabbi Shlomo** ben Avraham ben Parchon composed the book HaParchon, a commentary on the words on the Tanakh, written in the year 4921 [(Siftei Yeshenim)].