Haggahot Rabbeinu Peretz on Sefer Mitzvot Katanהגהות רבנו פרץ על ספר מצוות קטן
Corbeil-Essonnes · 1280
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Peretz of Corbeil
Peretz of Corbeil
1235 CE–1295 CE · Rishonim · Paris (medieval)
Rabbeinu Peretz ben Elijah of Corbeil (died c. 1295), known by the acronym RaP, was among the last great Tosafists of medieval France. A student of Rabbeinu Yechiel of Paris, he composed Talmudic novellae and, above all, the authoritative glosses on the Semak (Sefer Mitzvot Katan) of Isaac of Corbeil. Transmitted by a wide circle of disciples, his rulings were studied across France, Germany and Spain.
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Studied under Rabbeinu Yechiel of Paris, together with Jacob of Chinon and Samuel of Évreux.
Paris (medieval) in this era
In medieval Paris, under the rule of French kings whose authority grew steadily from the early twelfth century onward, a thriving Jewish community occupied the Rue de la Juiverie on the Île de la Cité, their quarter lying in the shadow of Notre-Dame. The Jews of Paris were merchants, moneylenders, and above all scholars—the city became a vital center of Tosafist learning, where rabbis engaged in the intricate, argumentative methodology of textual analysis that defined Ashkenazi Judaism. Rabbeinu Yehiel of Paris, the towering figure of the thirteenth century, led a flourishing yeshiva whose students traveled from across northern Europe to study with him, and his Tosafot—glosses challenging and refining the interpretations of earlier authorities—circulated widely in manuscript. Yet this golden age of intellectual ferment was shadowed by persecution: Jews faced conversion pressures, violent accusations of ritual murder, and royal expulsions and readmissions that made their tenure always precarious. The Great Disputation of 1240, in which Yehiel publicly defended Judaism against Christian charges in the royal court itself, became legendary—a moment when Paris's Jewish scholars could still imagine they might argue their way to safety through reason and eloquence.
About Paris (medieval)
Medieval Paris was a center of Tosafist Torah scholarship in northern France. Rabbi Yechiel of Paris headed the great yeshiva of Paris, reputed to have had some three hundred students, in the early thirteenth century; he was the chief Jewish defender in the Disputation of Paris (1240) against the convert Nicholas Donin, a confrontation that led to the public burning of the Talmud in Paris in 1242.
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Related figuresRYehiel of ParisSuggested by shared subject matter, not a documented teaching relationship.