Restoring Spanish Torah Study to Its Former Glory: On the Goals and Intended Audiences of Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh and Its Exposition of Ta‘amei ha-Mitsvot.

dc.contributor.authorKanarfogel, Ephraim
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-08T17:26:39Z
dc.date.available2020-09-08T17:26:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionScholarly articleen_US
dc.description.abstractIn addition to its pedagogic goals which included the further education of somewhat knowledgeable non-elites, Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh represents a proud and sustained effort to return to the way that substantive talmudic and rabbinic studies in the Sefardic world were once presented to more elite students and readers, at least in the mind of its author. Maimonides stands firmly at the center, surrounded by other Sefardic greats, and the discussion always includes and even begins with ta‘amei ha-mitsvot. Citation of Rabad of Posquieres is the only exception to the absolute primacy of Sefardic rabbinic endeavors in the Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh, although this exception is hardly a glaring one in any case, since Rabad’s works were highly venerated and extensively cited by leading Spanish rabbinic authorities throughout the thirteenth century.37 The exclusive Sefardic scholarly array presented by the author of Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh, and the near complete absence of even a single reference to the writings of the Tosafists, was intended to underscore what might have transpired in the realm of Torah study and analysis had the so-called Tosafist revolution never impacted rabbinic scholarship in Spain.38 (from Conclusion)en_US
dc.identifier.citationKanarfogel, Ephraim. “Restoring Spanish Torah Study to Its Former Glory: On the Goals and Intended Audiences of Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh and Its Exposition of Ta‘amei ha-Mitsvot,” Diné Israel 32 (2018): 39*-53*en_US
dc.identifier.issn0070-4903
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/6088
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherYerushalayim : Bet midrash le-mishpaṭ ʻIvri, Faḳulṭah le-mishpatim, Uniṿersiṭat Tel-Aviv : Sifre Ṿahrman,en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDiné Israel;32
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectSpanish Torah Studyen_US
dc.subjectSefer ha-Ḥinnukhen_US
dc.subjectTa‘amei ha-Mitsvoten_US
dc.titleRestoring Spanish Torah Study to Its Former Glory: On the Goals and Intended Audiences of Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh and Its Exposition of Ta‘amei ha-Mitsvot.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
local.yu.facultypagehttps://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/kanarfogel-ephraim

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