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- ↑ Makkot 19b: "Our master's body was pure, and his soul departed in purity, and he did not explain any more; from here on is the language of his student Rabbi Yehudah ben Nathan."
- ↑ Eliezer b. Joel ha-Levi, Abi ha-'Ezri, §§ 183, 385, 397, 408
- ↑ Semag, prohibition No. 79
- ↑ Gross, Henri (1897). Gallia Judaica - Dictionnaire Geographique de la France d'Apres les Sources Rabbiniques. Philo Press. pp. 509-512.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Joseph Jacobs and M. Seligsohn (1901–1906). "Tosafot". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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