Vidal of Tolosa, alternate spelling Vidal de Toulouse (Hebrew: וידאל די טולושא), was a Spanish rabbi and scholar of the late 14th century, and is often referred to by the sobriquet, Harav Ha-Maggid, or the Maggid Mishneh, named for his magnum opus by that name.
The Hida and others wrote that he was from Tolosa, Spain;[1] while modern scholar Israel Netanel Rubin placed his origin at Toulouse.
From Joseph Caro's preface to his Kesef Mishneh it appears that Vidal was a personal friend of Nissim of Gerona.
This commentary was translated into Hebrew by Moses ben Joshua of Narbonne, and as of 1906 was extant in manuscript in the Library of the Vatican.
[5] However, according to modern scholar Israel Netanel Rubin, Vidal did not actually write To'elet ha-Higgayon and it was falsely attributed to him due to a similarity in the name of the translator.