Tosafists were rabbis of France, Germany, Bohemia and Austria, who lived from the 12th to the mid-15th centuries, in the period of Rishonim.
The Tosafists composed critical and explanatory glosses (questions, notes, interpretations, rulings and sources) on the Talmud, which are collectively called Tosafot ("additions").
He was the father-in-law of Judah ben Isaac Messer Leon, and therefore a contemporary of Rabbeinu Tam of Rameru, the head of the tosafistic school in the middle of the 12th century.
Many of them were inserted by Bezalel Ashkenazi in Shitah Mekubetzet; those to Yebamot and Ketubot appeared separately at Livorno, 1776; to Sotah, partly at Prague, 1725, and partly in Jacob Faitusi's Mar'eh haOfannim (1810); to Megillah and Shevuot, in Elijah Borgel's Migdanot Natan (1785); and to Kiddushin, in the Ma'aseh Rokem (Pisa, 1806).
Author of tosafot to Baba Kamma, extracts from which are found in Bezalel Ashkenazi's Shitah Mekubetzet.
Flourished in the beginning of the 13th century in Germany; author of tosafot to several tractates,[1] and to Sefer Ra'avyah.
French tosafist of the beginning of the 13th century, whose tosafot are mentioned in Shibbolei HaLeket.
Student of Rabbeinu Tam and one of the earlier tosafists ("ba'ale tosafot yeshanim").
[4] Grandson of Rashi, and brother of RaSHBaM and Rabbeinu Tam; died before his father, leaving four children.
[5] Although he died young, Isaac wrote tosafot, mentioned by Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi,[6] to several tractates of the Talmud.
He corresponded with Jacob Tam and was a fellow student of Moses b. Joel and Ephraim b. Isaac.
He may be identical with the Isaac b. Reuben who made a comment on Rashi to Bava Kamma 32d.
The greater part of his tosafot were published under the title "Tosefot R. Yesha'yahu" (Lemberg, 1861–69); and many were inserted by Betzalel Ashkenazi in Shitah Mekubetzet.
In the extracts from his tosafot to Baba Kamma, inserted in Shitah Mekubetzet, he quotes (among many other authorities) his still living teacher, the Kohen whom Zunz[11] supposes to be identical with Avigdor Cohen of Vienna.
Lived in the 13th century; student of Isaac ben Abraham, author of a "Shiṭṭah"[12] He himself is quoted in the edited tosafot (Berachot 12a; Nazir 53a; et al.).
Reported to have moved to Acre, Israel in about 1258, approximately ten years before his death.
Zunz identifies this Joseph with the student of Rashbam whose glosses are quoted in the edited tosafot (to Ket.
70a), and thinks he may be identical with the Joseph of Orleans often cited in the edited tosafot (Shabbat 12a et passim).
If so, he must be identified, according to Henri Gross,[17] with Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor.
It is generally considered that Judah b. Nathan wrote tosafot to several tractates of the Talmud, and he is mentioned as a tosafist in "Haggahot Mordechai" (Sanhedrin, No.
11th century French rabbi His tosafot are quoted in the "Mordechai" (Bava Metzia 4, end).
"umilta," as well as by Hagahot Maimoniyot to Rambam's laws of chametz and matzah, chapter 6, note 9.
German Talmudist of the end of the 12th century; author of tosafot to Avodah Zarah.