Rif
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Rif, also known as Rabbi Isaac Alfasi, was an 11th-century Talmudic scholar whose halachic digest of the Talmud became a foundational legal work that strongly shaped later Jewish law codes.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Talmudic scholar
ⓘ
halakhic authority ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Isaac Alfasi
ⓘ
surface form:
Alfasi
HaRif ⓘ Isaac Alfasi ⓘ
surface form:
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Isaac Alfasi ⓘ
surface form:
Rabbi Isaac Alfasi
|
| approach |
extraction of practical halakha from the Talmud
ⓘ
omitting non-legal Talmudic material ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1013 ⓘ |
| birthName |
Isaac Alfasi
ⓘ
surface form:
Yitzhak ben Yaakov Alfasi
|
| burialPlace | Lucena ⓘ |
| century | 11th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Morocco
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Algeria ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1103 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Sephardi Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Sephardi Jew
|
| fieldOfWork |
Halakha
ⓘ
Talmud ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
Talmudic digest
ⓘ
halakhic code ⓘ |
| influenced |
Arba’ah Turim
ⓘ
Maimonides ⓘ Yosef Karo ⓘ
surface form:
Rabbi Yosef Karo
Shulchan Aruch ⓘ later halakhic codifiers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Geonim
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian Geonim
Talmud ⓘ
surface form:
Talmud Bavli
Talmud Yerushalmi ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| legalTradition | Sephardic halakha ⓘ |
| mainWork |
Halachot of the Rif
ⓘ
Sefer Ha-Halachot ⓘ |
| movement | Geonic tradition ⓘ |
| notableFor |
foundational role in later Jewish law codes
ⓘ
halachic digest of the Talmud ⓘ |
| occupation |
posek
ⓘ
rosh yeshiva ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Algeria
ⓘ
Qalʿat Hammad ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Andalusia
ⓘ
surface form:
Al-Andalus
Lucena ⓘ |
| rabbinicTitle |
Gaon
ⓘ
Rav ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| taughtAt | Lucena yeshiva ⓘ |
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