Isaac ben Melchizedek
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Isaac ben Melchizedek, was a rabbinic scholar from Siponto, Italy, and one of the first medieval scholars to have composed a commentary on the Mishnah, of which only his commentary on Seder Zera'im su
Page from Ben Melchizedek's commentary, Kil'ayim 1:4 (Courtesy of the British Library)
Mishnah Kil'ayim 1:2–3 (Courtesy of the British Library)
Fig cake (fruit)
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A fig cake, or cake of figs, is a mass or lump of dried and compressed figs, usually formed by a mold into a round or square block for storage, or for selling in the marketplace for human consumption.
Mechanically-produced fig cake (often formed into a round or square loaf)
Strings of dried figs (Ar. quṭṭēn), as distinguished from a fig cake