Simeon ben Zemah Duran
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Not to be confused with Profiat Duran.
"TaSHBaẒ" and "Tashbetz" redirect here. For the author of a different work with the same name, see Samson ben Zadok.
Simeon ben Zemah Duran, also Tzemach Duran (1361–1444; Hebrew: שמעון בן צמח דוראן), known as Rashbatz (רשב"ץ) or Tashbatz, was a Rabbinical authority, student of philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and especially of medicine, which he practised for a number of years at Palma de Mallorca. A major 15th century posek, his published decisions in matters of halakha have been widely quoted in halakhic literature for hundreds of years.