Coucy-le-Château

France — Semag homeland

Coucy (Coucy-le-Château), a town in northern France (Picardy), was the home of Rabbi Moses of Coucy, a thirteenth-century Tosafist best known as the author of the Sefer Mitzvot Gadol (Semag), an influential code of the 613 commandments completed in 1247. He was also one of the rabbis who defended the Talmud at the 1240 Disputation of Paris.

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