Isaac of Ourville

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Isaac of Ourville (Hebrew : יצחק מאורבילYiṣḥaq me-Orvil, fl.late 13th century [1] ) was a medieval French rabbi, author of the mostly-lost SeferhaMenahel, a book of halakha (Jewish ritual law).

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Life and Time

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 (Hebrew : חיים בן יצחק הצרפתי), the author of Ez Hayyim on Jewish monetary law, a disciple of Samuel of Evreux. [3]

Toponym

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 האורבליHaOrvili (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]

Work

Most of his only known work, the halakhic SeferHaMenahel (Hebrew : המנהל "the Guide"), is lost, but select portions have survived as follows:

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