Early Medieval Halakhic Texts

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Early Medieval Halachic Texts

In the early Middle Ages, leading scholars across Europe and North Africa produced different genres of legal writings.

In Ashkenaz

The rabbis of France and Germany created new genres of halakhic literature.

Commentaries on Alfasi

Alfasi's groundbreaking legal code invited criticism, defense, and supplementation.

Rabbi Isaac Alfasi: Rif

A legal code for the Jews of medieval North Africa and Spain.

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