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    The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot (Hebrew: תוספות) are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed...
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    Ba'alei Tosafot). One of the main goals of the Tosafot is to explain and interpret contradictory statements in the Talmud. Unlike Rashi, the Tosafot is not...
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  • and sources) on the Talmud, which are collectively called Tosafot ("additions"). The Tosafot are important to the practical application of Jewish law,...
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  • moral principle." The Tosafot text that applies Noahide law to forbid abortion does not go unchallenged. Another commentary in Tosafot (Niddah 44b) appears...
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  • called Rabbi Yom Tov ben Rabbi Yehuda, was one of the 11th-century Baalei Tosafot in France. His father was Judah ben Nathan (Rivan), who was Rashi's son-in-law...
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    and/or Mishnah centered with Rashi's commentary on the inner margin and Tosafot on the outer margin. It is also flanked by other various marginal notations...
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    Nissim (quoted in Tosafot Rosh Hashana, l.c.), Isaac Alfasi, and others Rabbeinu Nissim in Tosafot l.c. Compare the gloss on Tosafot, l.c. and Ibn Ezra...
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    Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 1579 – 19 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a...
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    standard printed Talmud, the Tosafot's commentaries can be found in the Talmud opposite Rashi's commentary. The Tosafot also added comments and criticism...
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  • Rabbeinu Haim ben Hananel HaCohen (12th century) was one of the early Ba'alei Tosafot and a student and colleague of Rabbeinu Tam. He was active primarily in...
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  • Rabbi Judah ben Yom Tov (Hebrew: יהודה בן יום טוב) was one of the Baalei Tosafot in France, a member of Rashi's family. His father was Rabbi Yom Tov of...
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  • debate in Jewish philosophy. Shituf is first mentioned in the commentary of Tosafot on the Babylonian Talmud, in a passage concluding with a lenient ruling...
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    a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. He is also known as Meir ben Baruch...
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  • pairings, and their rabbis suggest various reasons why this is the case. The Tosafot ruled that the rules regarding pairs need not be followed as the shedim...
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  • Tosefot Hakhmei Anglia (Hebrew: תוספות חכמי אנגליה, English: Glosses of the sages of England) is a Talmud commentary composed by one of the Tosafists living...
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    Rashi, and the related work Tosafot, a parallel analysis and running critique. The integration of Talmud, Rashi and Tosafot, is considered as foundational...
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  • and Rabbeinu HaTishbi Hebrew: אליהו מפריז) was one of the early Ba'alei Tosafot in France. He lived in Paris and taught Torah there during the times of...
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    the tosafot of Samson of Sens, Samuel of Évreux, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon"...
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    and Tosafot to Talmud Bavli Pesachim 46a Savannah at the Hashkafah.com forums quoting https://www.dafdigest.org/pesachim/Pesachim%20046.pdf Tosafot Berachot...
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  • may have been killed at the same time as his son Elhanan (1184). Isaac's tosafot completed the commentary of Rashi on the Talmud (Romm included in his edition...
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  • deal by later Talmudists and introduced the form of literature called Tosafot 'Additional Notes'. Sefer ha-yashar (Vienna, 1811). Sefer ha-yashar le-rabenu...
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  • He is cited under the name of "Tosafot Riba," in the Temim De'im, in the printed tosafot (Sotah 17b), and in the Tosafot Yeshanin (Yoma 15a). They are...
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  • the tosafot of Samson of Sens, Samuel of Évreux, and many others, and added thereto marginal notes of his own, entitled "Gilyon Tosafot," or "Tosafot Gillayon"...
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    16a. The reason given is "to confuse Satan". Arukh 272:1; mentioned in Tosafot Rosh Hashana 33b s.v. שעור Ben-David, Rabbi Yaron. "מאה תקיעות בראש השנה"...
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    Jacob Zausmer, "Bet Ya'aḳob," No. 168; comp. Berachot 40a. Leviticus 2:13 Tosafot, Berachot 40a Berachot 44a Silberberg, Naftali. "Why is the Challah dipped...
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  • Rashi's death 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...
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    Talmud text (center), and the commentaries of Rashi (center left) and the Tosafot (center right) as the word will begin each text on the next page, 2b....
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    contributor to the Mishnah and to Midrash halakha. He is referred to in Tosafot as Rosh la-Hakhamim ("Chief of the Sages"). He was executed by the Romans...
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    Arukh, as well as MSS Hamburg 165, Paris 1337, and Escorial 1115; cf. Tosafot to b. Gittin 11a s.v. Hormin. Hormin (Ahriman) and Hormiz (Ormuzd) are...
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    its scholars are quoted in the medieval notes to the Talmud called the Tosafot. The following rabbis are known to have lived at Évreux: Samuel ben Shneor...
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