Isaac of Ourville
Isaac of Ourville (Template:Lang-he Yiṣḥaq me-Orvil, fl. late 13th century[1]) was a medieval French rabbi, author of the as yet unpublished Menahel, a book of halakha (Jewish ritual law).
Isaac appears to have been a contemporary of Perez of Corbeil (died c. 1297);[2] Isaac cites Moses of Coucy's Semag, from the generation before Perez, while segments of Isaac's Menahel are, in turn, cited alongside the Perez's teachings.[3] His master was Hayyim of Blois,[4] who is possibly identical with Hayyim ben Isaac the Frenchman (Template:Lang-he), the author of Ez Hayyim on Jewish monetary law, a disciple of Samuel of Evreux.[3]
Carmoly and others read אורביל as "Orbeil", a village in the Puy-de-Dôme department, while Gross considered this unlikely, as Orbeil probably had no Jewish population in medieval times. According to Gross, אורביל is probably Ourville (Ourville-en-Caux), Seine-Maritime, or perhaps Orville, Orne.[4] Isaac is thus sometimes named האורבלי HaOrvili (or HaOrbeli). He was confused by Samuel David Luzzato with a similarly named rabbinical authority, Isaac ben Dorbolo, after Rapoport's misinterpretation of the latter's patronymic as "d'Orbolo".[5]
Selections of his halakhic book, HaMenahel (Template:Lang-he "the Guide"), were incorporated in the closely related pair of halakhic works, Orhot Hayyim by Aaron ben Jacob ha-Kohen and Kol Bo,[4] and, anonymously, in the halakhic decisions of Menahem Recanati.[1] Once considered lost, parts of the Menahel are now known to exist in manuscript.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Emanuel, Simha (2008). פסקי ר' מנחם מרקנטי. Shenaton Ha-mishpaṭ Ha-ʻIvri. 25. Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 158–159. LCCN 74647727.
- ^ Renan, Ernest (1877). "Les rabbins français". In Hauréau, B. (ed.). Histoire littéraire de la France. Vol. XXVII. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. p. 448. LCCN f01002304.
- ^ a b Goldmints, A. Y. (2001). "Foreword". In Hayyim ben Isaac (ed.). Ez Hayyim (in Hebrew). Goldmints, A. Y. (ed.). Jerusalem: Mekhon Yerushalayim. p. 12. LCCN 2004418780.
- ^ a b c Gross, Heinrich (1897). Gallia Judaica (in French). Paris: L. Cerf. pp. 27–28. LCCN 51050586.
- ^ Taylor, Charles (1900). Appendix to Sayings of the Jewish Fathers. University Press. p. 13.
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