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.

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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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Beit Yosef cites Rif
Tarifit region Rif