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

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...

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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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(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...

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...

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...

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

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

חלואה‎‎, 1255–1340) was a rabbi and scholar of Judaism, best known as a commentator on the Hebrew Bible. He is one of two scholars now referred to as Rabbeinu...

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...

century, known chiefly as the author of Sefer ha-Ikkarim ("Book of Principles"), the classic work on the fundamentals of Judaism. Albo's birthplace is generally...

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...

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

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

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...

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 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...

considered one of Spain's greatest poets and was thought to be ahead of his time in terms of his theories on the nature of poetry. One of the more revolutionary...

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)...

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

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...

employed by the tosafists of France and the systematic science of the Spanish rabbis. The French-Italian codifiers – Aaron ha-Kohen of Lunel, Zedekiah...