YOM TOV BEN ABRAHAM ISHBILI
(c. 1250 - c. 1330)
He was a distinguished Talmudist, jurist and treatise writer who lived between the 13th and 14th centuries. He was endowed with a clear and keen mind, and is known to have been a student of Aaron ha-Levi and Solomon Adret in Barcelona. He became involved in a controversy with the German Rabbi Dan Ashkenazi, who had emigrated to Spain.
Yom-Tov's voluminous works include valuable short novels on many of the Talmudic treatises and commentaries on the writings of Alfasi and Naḥmanides. His main published novels are: 'Erubin, Ta'anit, Mo'ed Ḳaṭan, Ketubot and Baba Meẓi'a (Amsterdam, 1729; Prague, 1810), Ta'anit and Mo'ed Ḳaṭan (Prague, 1811), Ḥullin (Prague, 1735), Giṭṭin (Thessaloniki, 1758), Yebamot (Leghorn, 1787), Shabbat (Thessaloniki, 1806), Yoma (Constantinople, 1754; Berlin, 1860), 'Abodah Zarah (Ofen, 1824) and Rosh ha-Shanah (Königsberg, 1858).
Most of his novels have been collected under the title "Ḥiddushe ha-Riṭba" (Lemberg, 1860), while some of his commentaries on haggadic passages are collected in "En Ya'aḳob" (Berlin, 1709).
Primera edición del "Ḥidushe Ḥulin" de Yom Tov Ben Abraham Ishbili, publicado en Praga en 1735.
