Tosafists were rabbis of France and Germany, who lived from the 12th to the mid-15th centuries, in the period of Rishonim. The Tosafists composed critical...

notes. The authors of the Tosafot are known as Tosafists (בעלי התוספות); for a listing see List of Tosafists.[citation needed] The word tosafot literally...

explained and illustrated with examples. At the end of each chapter, the author carefully draws up the list of words studied. Until very recently, it was accepted...

Rabbi Yom Tov of Falaise, Hebrew: יום טוב מפלייזא also called Rabbi Yom Tov ben Rabbi Yehuda, was one of the 11th-century Baalei Tosafot in France. His...

Tibbon, 12th-13th century French Maimonidean philosopher and translator Tosafists, (Tosafot), 11th, 12th and 13th century Talmudic scholars in France and...

(Rabbeinu Tam; born 1100), and Shlomo the Grammarian, all of whom were among the most prolific Tosafists. Yocheved's daughter, Channah, is reputed to have instructed...

HaDoroth describes an incident when Elijah was giving a lesson to a group of Tosafists, and they referred to the dispute between Rabbi Eliyahu and Rabbeinu...

composed a commentary on Song of Songs. His commentaries are divided into chapters, each of which is preceded by a list of questions or difficulties that...

and is therefore named for his grandfather. He was one of the Tosafot. Rabbi Solomon was the son of Rabbi Meir ben Samuel and Jochebed. He was brother to...

יום טוב) was one of the Baalei Tosafot in France, a member of Rashi's family. His father was Rabbi Yom Tov of Falaise, who was the son of Judah ben Nathan...

adumbration—but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and Alfasi himself. One theory states that the work is actually not a...

commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah ("Our teacher Gershom the light of the exile"), was a famous...

others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan. As in the case of the other medieval Jewish philosophers little is known of his life. His family had...

Abin (or Abun) ha-Gadol (the Great) (d. circa 970) was one of the most important French rabbis of the 10th century, flourishing at the same time as Rav Sherira...

Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and Talmudist...

buried in Cabul, alongside Judah Halevi. Rabbinic literature List of rabbis Jewish views of astrology Jewish commentaries on the Bible Kabbalistic astrology...

Yosef the Elder of Falaise (Hebrew: רבי שמשון בן יוסף הזקן מפלייזא, romanized: Rabbi Shimshon ben Yosef Hazaken mi-Palaiza‎) was one of the Tosafot. His...

then in the Kingdom of Castile, in 1340. He was the third son of the Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel (known as the "Rosh"), a Rabbi of the Holy Roman Empire...

Occitania, then under the rule of Philip II of France. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Joseph Kimhi and the brother of Moses Kimhi, both also biblical...

Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro (Hebrew: ר׳ עוֹבַדְיָה בֵּן אַבְרָהָם מִבַּרְטֵנוּרָא; c. 1445 – c. 1515), commonly known as "The Bartenura", was a 15th-century...

Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi (known by the abbreviation RIF) and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key...

(teacher of Jewish law). Along with Maimonides ("Rambam"), Gersonides ("Ralbag"), and Joseph Albo, he is known as one of the major practitioners of the rationalist...

means "of Much Light" in the sense of having excellent eyesight, an ironic euphemism for being blind. Some historians suspect him to be the author of the...

Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...

Eliezer (ben Samuel) of Metz's Tosafot commentary to Zevachim. Many of the Tosafists, including Isaac ben Jacob ha-Lavan , Elijah of Paris (who was married...

and were among the early sages of German Jewry. There are also disagreements about the year of his birth and year of death. Leopold Zunz dates his death...

Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of halakha - Jewish law). He is best known for his work of halakha, the legal code Sefer Ha-halachot, considered...

Handbook of Abrahamic Religions. Oxford University Press. pp. 43–51. ISBN 978-0-19-969776-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)...

Not to be confused with Simeon bar Isaac, uncle of Rashi. Rabbi Simeon bar Isaac bar Avon of Mainz (also known as Rabbi Shimon ben Yitzchak, Rabbi Simeon...

Isserlin (ישראל איסרלן; Israel Isserlein ben Petachia; 1390 in Maribor, Duchy of Styria – 1460 in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria) was a Talmudist, and Halakhist...