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Isaac ben Melchizedek, the Glossary

Isaac ben Melchizedek (also known by the acronym Ribmaṣ ריבמץ; c. 1090–1160), was a rabbinic scholar from Siponto, Italy, and one of the first medieval scholars to have composed a commentary on the Mishnah, of which only his commentary on Seder Zera'im survives.^[1]

49 relations: Abraham ben David, Beater (weaving), Benjamin of Tudela, Bikkurim (tractate), Bodleian Library, Brill Publishers, British Library, Byzantine Empire, Chaim Yosef David Azulai, Diachrony and synchrony, Ephraim Urbach, Fustat, Hai ben Sherira, Hebrew language, Isaiah di Trani, Ishtori Haparchi, Jerusalem Talmud, Keilim, Laureate, List of Tosafists, Livorno, Loanword, Maimonides, Mediterranean Sea, Meir of Rothenburg, Mishnah, Mishneh Torah, Naples, Nathan ben Jehiel, Nega'im, Nissim ben Jacob, Rabbeinu Tam, Rabbi, Rashi, Romm publishing house, Salerno, Samson ben Abraham of Sens, Seder Olam Rabbah, Sifra, Sifri Zutta, Siponto, Solomon Sirilio, Talmud, Targum, Tohorot, Tosefta, Vauvert, Warp and weft, Zeraim.
1160 deaths
12th-century Italian rabbis
Commentaries on the Mishnah
Italian Hebraists
Medieval Hebraists
Medieval Jewish writers

Abraham ben David

Abraham ben David (– 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal rabbi, an important commentator on the Talmud, Sefer 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 links in the chain of Jewish mystics.

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Beater (weaving)

A beater or batten, is a weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place.

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Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin of Tudela, also known as Benjamin ben Jonah, was a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the twelfth century.

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Bikkurim (tractate)

Bikkurim (lit. "First-fruits") is the eleventh tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Chaim Yosef David Azulai

Haim Yosef David Azulai ben Yitzhak Zerachia (1724 – 1 March 1806), commonly known as the Hida (also spelled Chida, the acronym of his name), was a Jerusalem born rabbinical scholar, a noted bibliophile, and a pioneer in the publication of Jewish religious writings.

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Diachrony and synchrony

Synchrony and diachrony are two complementary viewpoints in linguistic analysis.

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Ephraim Urbach

Ephraim Urbach (Hebrew: אפרים אלימלך אורבך) (born 1912 – 3 July 1991) was a distinguished scholar of Judaism.

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Fustat

Fustat (translit), also Fostat, was the first capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, and the historical centre of modern Cairo.

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Hai ben Sherira

Hai ben Sherira (Hebrew: האיי בר שרירא) better known as Hai Gaon (Hebrew: האיי גאון), was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century. Isaac ben Melchizedek and Hai ben Sherira are commentaries on the Mishnah.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Isaiah di Trani

Isaiah di Trani ben Mali (the Elder) (c. 1180 – c. 1250), better known as the RID, was a prominent Italian Talmudist.

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Ishtori Haparchi

Ishtori Haparchi (1280–1355), also Estori Haparchi and Ashtori ha-Parhi (אשתורי הפרחי) is the pen name of the 14th-century Jewish physician, geographer, and traveller, Isaac HaKohen Ben Moses.

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Jerusalem Talmud

The Jerusalem Talmud (translit, often for short) or Palestinian Talmud, also known as the Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah.

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Keilim

Keilim or Kelim (כֵּלִים, literally "Vessels") is the first tractate in the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah.

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Laureate

In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary awards or military glory.

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List of Tosafists

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

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Isaac ben Melchizedek and Maimonides are commentaries on the Mishnah.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Meir of Rothenburg

Meir of Rothenburg (1215 – 2 May 1293) was a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud.

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Mishnah

The Mishnah or the Mishna (מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah.

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Mishneh Torah

The Mishneh Torah (repetition of the Torah), also known as Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (label), is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law (halakha) authored by Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon/Rambam).

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Nathan ben Jehiel

Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome (Nāṯān ben Yəḥiʾel mirRomi, 1035 – 1106) was a Jewish Italian lexicographer. Isaac ben Melchizedek and Nathan ben Jehiel are 12th-century Italian rabbis.

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Nega'im

Neghaʿim (Hebrew: נגעים, "Blemishes") is the third tractate of the order of Tohorot in the Mishnah.

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Nissim ben Jacob

Nissim ben Jacob (ניסים בן יעקב), also known as Nissim Gaon (Our teacher Nissim the Gaon; 990–1062), was a rabbi and Gaon best known today for his Talmudic commentary ha-Mafteach, by which title he is also known.

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Rabbeinu Tam

Jacob ben Meir (1100 – 9 June 1171 (4 Tammuz)), best known as Rabbeinu Tam (רבינו תם), was one of the most renowned Ashkenazi Jewish rabbis and leading French Tosafists, a leading halakhic authority in his generation, and a grandson of Rashi.

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Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

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Rashi

Shlomo Yitzchaki (רבי שלמה יצחקי; Salomon Isaacides; Salomon de Troyes; 13 July 1105), commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.

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Romm publishing house

The Romm publishing house was a publisher of Jewish religious literature from 1788 to 1940.

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Salerno

Salerno (Salierno) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples.

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Samson ben Abraham of Sens

Samson ben Abraham of Sens (שמשון בן אברהם משאנץ; c. 1150 – c. 1230),was one of the leading French Tosafists in the second half of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th centuries. Isaac ben Melchizedek and Samson ben Abraham of Sens are commentaries on the Mishnah.

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Seder Olam Rabbah

Seder Olam Rabbah (סדר עולם רבה, "The Great Order of the World") is a 2nd-century CE Hebrew language chronology detailing the dates of biblical events from creation to Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia.

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Sifra

Sifra (document) is the Midrash halakha to the Book of Leviticus.

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Sifri Zutta

Sifre Zutta (ספרי זוטא) was a midrash on the Book of Numbers.

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Siponto

Siponto (Sipontum, Σιπιούς) was an ancient port town and bishopric of Magna Graecia in Apulia, southern Italy.

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Solomon Sirilio

Solomon Sirilio (סיריליאו also שלמה סריליו) (1485–1554), the son of Joseph Sirilio, was a Spanish rabbi and author of one of the first commentaries written about the Jerusalem Talmud (Seder Zeraim).

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Talmud

The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.

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Targum

A targum (תרגום 'interpretation, translation, version') was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Tanakh) that a professional translator (מְתוּרגְמָן mǝturgǝmān) would give in the common language of the listeners when that was not Biblical Hebrew.

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Tohorot

Tohorot (lit) is the sixth and last order of the Mishnah (also of the Tosefta and Talmud).

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Tosefta

The Tosefta (translit "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.

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Vauvert

Vauvert (Vauverd) is a commune in the far south of the Gard department in southern France.

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Warp and weft

In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics.

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Zeraim

Seder Zeraim (Sēder Zərāʿim, lit. "Order of Seeds") is the first of the six orders, or major divisions, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Talmud, and, apart from the first tractate which concerns the rules for prayers and blessings, primarily deals with the laws of agricultural produce and tithes of the Torah which apply in the Land of Israel, in both their religious and social aspects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_ben_Melchizedek

Also known as Isaac ben Melchizedek of Siponto, Isaac of Siponto, Yitzchak ben Malkitzedek, Yitzhak ben Malkizedek.

Isaac ben Melchizedek, the Glossary

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1160 deaths

12th-century Italian rabbis

Italian Hebraists

Medieval Hebraists

Medieval Jewish writers

References