Samuel ben Isaac ha-Sardi

Samuel ben Isaac Ha-Sardi (Hebrew: שמואל בן יצחק סרדי) was a Spanish rabbi who flourished in the first half of the 13th century.

In his youth he attended the school of Rabbi Nathan ben Meir of Trinquetaille, Provence, and later he returned to Spain, his native country.

Solomon ben Abraham of Montpellier, who in his implacable hatred of philosophy denounced the works of Maimonides and appealed to the Inquisition to burn them, wrote a letter to Samuel in which he speaks highly of his learning and reminds him of their friendly relations in their youth.

Samuel wrote in 1225: Sefer ha-Terumot (ספר התרומות, sometimes abbreviated סה"ת) Salonica, 1596 and 1628; Prague, 1605, with Azaria Piccio's commentary Giddule truma, Venice, 1643), novellæ on the civil laws of the Talmud, divided into "she'arim" (gates) and "peraḳim" (chapters).

In the preface the author mentions another work written by him, Sefer ha-Zikronot, on the arrangement of the tractates and chapters of the Mishnah; but it was not printed, and the manuscript is no longer extant.