Sefer HaTerumahספר התרומה
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Baruch of Worms
Baruch of Worms
1140 CE–1211 CE · Rishonim · Dampierre
R. Baruch ben Yitzchak of Worms (c. 1140-1211) wrote one of the most widely studied Jewish law manuals of medieval Germany, the Sefer HaTerumah. Rather than make readers hunt through Talmudic debates for the practical conclusion, he organized law into clear topical chapters: the laws of Shabbat, Niddah (the laws of marital separation), permitted and forbidden foods (issur ve-heter), Avodah Zarah (idolatry), and the writing of a Torah scroll (Sefer Torah). He drew on the early teachings of the Tosafists, the leading Talmud scholars of medieval France and Germany. Together with two other major codes, the Mordechai and the Or Zarua, the Sefer HaTerumah is one of the three foundational law codes of the Tosafist school.
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Stop 1 of 21175–1195Studied
DampierreדאמפיירÎle-de-France — seat of Ri HaZaken
What they did here
Studied under the great Tosafist Isaac ben Samuel — the Ri — at his academy in Dampierre.
About Dampierre
Dampierre (Dampierre-en-Yvelines) was the seat of R. Yitzchak of Dampierre (Ri HaZaken, d. c. 1189), Rabbenu Tam's nephew and successor as head of the Tosafist school. He was the second-most-cited Tosafist after his uncle and shaped the entire trajectory of Ashkenazi Talmudic methodology.
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