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who flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries. He lived in

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Nimmukei Yosef

Like his predecessor, R.

Nissim ben Reuben Nissim ben Reuven (1320 – 9th of Shevat, 1376, he, נִסִּים בֶּן רְאוּבֵן) of Girona, Catalonia was an influential talmudist and authority on Jewish law. He was one of the last of the great Spanish medieval Talmudic scholars ...

(RaN), Ibn Ḥabib wrote a commentary on the ''halachot'' of

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, entitled ''Nimmuḳei Yosef,'' published with the text and the commentary of R. Nissim (Constantinople, 1509). Against the opinion of

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that Ibn Ḥabib wrote commentaries only upon those tractates which R. Nissim had omitted, Azulai''Shem ha-Gedolim'' proved that Ibn Ḥabib's ''Nimmuḳei Yosef'' covered the entire ''

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'' of Isaac Alfasi, but a part of it had remained unpublished, and that the commentary to the ''halachot'' of Moed Katan and

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, attributed to R. Nissim, belongs to Ibn Ḥabib. The latter quotes

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, Ritva, his master RaM, and R. Nissim himself. ''Nimmuḳei Yosef'' on

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and

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was also included in the work ''Ishei Adonai'' (Leghorn, 1795), and the portion on Shebuot in the ''Bet ha-Beḥirah'' (ib. 1795). Azulai says that Ibn Ḥabib was the author of ''novellæ'' on the whole

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

, ''Shem ha-Gedolim''; *

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, in Ersch and Gruber, Encyc. section ii., part 31, p. 73; *

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, Cat. Bodl. col. 1449; * Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 470. 14th-century Catalan rabbis Rabbis from Barcelona {{spain-rabbi-stub