Isaac Alfasi
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Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi, also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif, was a Maghrebi Talmudist and posek. He is best known for his halakhic legal work Sefer Ha-halachot, considered the f
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Sephardic Jews
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Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsula Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsul
Isaac Alfasi
…centuries his work was the primary subject of study of the Italian Jewish community. Alfasi also occupies an important place in the development of the Sephardic method of studying the Talmud. In contradistinction to the Ashkenazi approach, the Sephardim sought to simplify the Talmud and free it from casuistical…
Sephardic Jewish festival in Tétouan, Morocco, Alfred Dehodencq, 1865, Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History
Statue of Maimonides in Córdoba
Observing the Havdalah ritual, 14th-century Spain
Windows and decorative reliefs of the Synagogue of El Tránsito, Toledo, constructed circa 1350.