The Rif and Rashi were alive at the same time for 63 years

We file the Rif, the great Sephardi codifier of halacha, and Rashi, the great Ashkenazi commentator, in separate mental worlds. Yet they were alive at the same time for sixty-three years — and it was the Ashkenazi Rashi who outlived the Sephardi Rif, by two years.

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