" SeMaG " is organised around the 365 negative and the 248 positive commandments, separately discussing each of them according to the Talmud ( in light of the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafot ) and the other codes existent at the time.

In addition to the Mishnah and Gemara, Bomberg's edition contained the commentaries of Rashi and Tosafot.

Unlike Rashi, the Tosafot is not a running commentary, but rather comments on selected matters.

Often the explanations of Tosafot differ from those of Rashi.

The intermediate level, iyyun ( concentration ), consists of study with the help of commentaries such as Rashi and the Tosafot, similar to that practised among the Ashkenazim ( historically Sephardim studied the Tosefot ha-Rosh and the commentaries of Nahmanides in preference to the printed Tosafot ).

On his maternal line, Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein and his wife Guta Feinstein née Davidovitch, who in turn was a descendant of a long line of Kapulyan rabbis, and of the Tosafot Yom Tov, the Shelah, the Maharshal, and Rashi.

In fact, the period of the Tosafot began immediately after Rashi had written his commentary ; the first tosafists were Rashi's sons-in-law and grandsons, and the Tosafot consist mainly of strictures on Rashi's commentary.

The chief characteristic of the Tosafot is that in spite of the great respect in which Rashi was held by the Tosafists, the latter freely corrected him.

In form this commentary follows the style of the Tosafot ; Rashi is often discussed, and sometimes corrected.

Rashi and the Tosafot on Talmud Bavli Pesachim 46a are both of the opinion that one is required to travel the distance of 4 mil to pray with a minyan.

In establishing the correct text Maharshal scrutinized the published editions of the Talmud as well as the commentaries of Rashi, Tosafot, and other Rishonim.

Meir Einei Chachamim is his best known work, a " casuistic commentary " on the Talmud, Rashi, and Tosafot together.

Chiddushei Halachot (-" Novellae in Jewish Law ") is an " incisive and keenly analytical " commentary on the Talmud, Rashi and Tosafot together, and with a focus on Tosafot.

His commentary in an important complement to the commentary of Bartenura ( Tosafot to Bartenura ’ s Rashi, as it were – hence the title.

He also makes extensive use of other codes, and particularly of the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafot, usually favouring these Ashkenazi traditions over Maimonides.

* After the Maharal of Prague had initiated organised Mishnah study ( Chevrat ha-Mishnayoth ), Yomtov Lipman Heller ( who is often believed to be his pupil but came to Prague already as a mature scholar ) wrote a commentary called Tosafot Yom Tov.

To this necessity are due his introduction to the Mishnah, " Darke ha-Mishnah " ( Leipzig, 1859 ), with a supplement and index under the title " Tosafot u-Mafteah ; le-Sefer Darke ha-Mishnah " ( 1867 ).

Passages from the Tosafot of Sens which did not find their way into the main collection are sometimes printed under the title of Tosafot Yeshanim.

" p. 57 ) thinks that the Tosafot of Sens may be referred to under this title ; but the fact that Abraham b. David was much earlier than Samson of Sens leads to the supposition that the glosses indicated are those of previous tosafists, as Jacob Tam, Isaac b. Asher ha-Levi, and Isaac b. Samuel ha-Zaḳen and his son.

This group comprises four smaller ones: ( 1 ) the general tosafot of Sens, including those appearing among the edited tosafot ; ( 2 ) the earlier unedited tosafot ( for example, those to Ḳiddushin by Isaac b. Samuel ha-Zaḳen of Dampierre, and those to ' Abodah Zarah by his son Elhanan b. Isaac ); these sometimes appear separately under the title of Tosafot ha-Ri ; ( 3 ) a collection of old tosafot published by Joseph Jessel b. Wolf ha-Levi in " Sugyot ha-Shas " ( Berlin, 1736 ); ( 4 ) various tosafot found in ancient manuscripts, as the tosafot to Ḥullin written in 1360, the manuscript of which is in the Munich Library ( No. 236 ).

The following rabbis are known to have lived at Évreux: Samuel ben Shneor, praised by his student Isaac of Corbeil as the " Prince of Évreux ", one of the most celebrated tosafists ; Moses of Évreux, brother of Samuel, author of the Tosafot of Évreux ; Isaac of Évreux ; Judah ben Shneor, or Judah the Elder, author of liturgical poems ; Meïr ben Shneor ; Samuel ben Judah ; Nathan ben Jacob, father of Jacob ben Nathan, who in 1357 copied the five Megillot with the Targum for Moses ben Samuel.

In the collection published by Joseph Jessel b. Wolf ha-Levi ( No. 3 ), besides the old tosafot to Yoma by Moses of Coucy ( comp., however, Israel Isserlein, " Terumat ha-Deshen ," No. 94, who declares they belong to the Tosafot of Sens ), there are single tosafot to sixteen treatises — Shabbat, Rosh ha-Shanah, Megillah, Giṭṭin, Baba Meẓi ' a, Menaḥot, Bekorot, ' Erubin, Beẓah, Ketubot, Ḳiddushin, Nazir, Baba Batra, Horayot, Keritot, and Niddah.

Complete sets of the Tosafot ha-Rosh and the Tosafot of Rabbi Peretz are published separately, as are individual volumes from the Tosafot Yeshanim and a few others.

Between 1614 and 1617, R ' Heller published a Mishnah commentary, Tosafot Yom Tov, in three volumes.

In many compact Mishnah printings, a condensed version of his commentary, titled Ikar Tosafot Yom Tov, is featured.

Medieval Ashkenazic Jewry produced another major commentary known as Tosafot (" additions " or " supplements ").

To the right, on the inner margin of the page, is Rashi's commentary ; to the left, on the outer margin, the Tosafot

For just as the Gemara is a critical and analytical commentary on the Mishnah, so are the Tosafot critical and analytical glosses on those two parts of the Talmud.

Besides, the Tosafot do not constitute a continuous commentary, but, like the " Dissensiones " to the Roman Code of the first quarter of the twelfth century, deal only with the difficult passages of the Talmudic text.

* Rabbi Nachman Kahane, brother of Rabbi Meir Kahane, rabbinic scholar involved in renewal of Sanhedrin, and author of commentary on Tosafot of the Talmud.

* Rabbi Meir is well known as a Tosafist and in particular, authored the Tosafot commentary of the Talmudic tractate Yoma ; he is quoted in the Tosafot on various other tractates.

Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller, ( b. Wallerstein, Bavaria, 1578 ; d. Kraków, August 19, 1654 ), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosafot Yom-Tov ( 1614-7 ).

Isaac was succeeded by his pupil Samson ben Abraham of Sens ( d. about 1235 ), who, besides enriching the literature with his own compositions, revised those of his predecessors, especially his teacher's, and compiled them into the group known as the Tosafot of Sens.

* Tosafists, ( Tosafot ), 11th, 12th and 13th century Talmudic scholars in France and Germany

This interpretation of the Talmudic statement, or the acceptance of the statement itself, is disputed ( for various reasons ) by the Ba ' alei Tosafot ( based on the Jerusalem Talmud ), Maimonides, Rabbeinu Ephraim, Ba ' al HaMa ' or, Ran, Orchot Chaim, Be ' er Hagolah, Magen Avraham, Taz, Rema, Vilna Gaon, Maharsha, Rashash, Tzeidah LaDerech, Hagahot Maimoniyot, Ra ' avyah, Korban N ' tan ' el, Bach, Maharil, P ' ri M ' gadim, Kol Bo, Chochmat Mano ' ach, Mishnah Berurah ( by the Chafetz Chaim ), and others.

Many of the last-named are known as authors of general Talmudic works, as, for instance, Eliezer b. Nathan of Mainz, Judah of Corbeil, and Jacob of Coucy ; but many of them are known only through their being quoted in the Tosafot, as in the case of an Eliezer of Sens, a Jacob of Orleans, and many Abrahams and Isaacs.

Most of the treatises are covered by the Tosafot of Touques, some by the Tosafot of Sens ; many are provided with the tosafot of various authors, revised by Perez b. Elijah's school.

It may be presumed that the " Tosafot of R. Moses " mentioned by Mordecai b. Hillel (" Mordekai ," on Sanh., No. 937 ) are identical with the tosafot just mentioned.

His pupils were not less active ; their additions are known as the Tosafot of Perez b. Elijah's Pupils.

That is why it is sometimes compared to the Tosafot – discussions of Babylonian gemara by French and German scholars of the 12th – 13th centuries.

However, other Talmudic commentaries ( Tosafot ) say that such liquids only produce a leavening reaction within flour if they themselves have had water added to them and otherwise the dough they produce is completely permissible for consumption during Passover, whether or not made according to the laws applying to matzot.

He is considered the " father " of all commentaries that followed on the Talmud ( i. e., the Baalei Tosafot ) and the Tanakh ( i. e., Ramban, Ibn Ezra, Ohr HaChaim, et al.

It was also an important resource in the study of the Babylonian Talmud by the Kairouan school of Hananel ben Hushiel and Nissim Gaon, with the result that opinions ultimately based on the Jerusalem Talmud found their way into both the Tosafot and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

One of the main goals of the Tosafot is to explain and interpret contradictory statements in the Talmud.

The Tosafot commentaries were collected in different editions in the various schools.

The benchmark collection of Tosafot for Northern France was that of R. Eliezer of Touques.

The Tosafot that are printed in the standard Vilna edition of the Talmud are an edited version compiled from the various medieval collections, predominantly that of Touques.

" On this, Tosafot there explains, " And this is called the Tree of Knowledge.

The Tosafot were also used by the scholars of the Catalonian school, such as Nahmanides and Solomon ben Adret, who were also noted for their interest in Kabbalah.

Besides these works, Berechiah is also said by Zunz to have contributed to the Tosafot ( Sanh.

R. Moses Isserles ( the Ramo ) quotes Shmuel's liberal view, as stated by Tosafot.

The Tosafot or Tosafos () are medieval commentaries on the Talmud.

The authors of the Tosafot are known as Tosafists (" ba ' ale ha-tosafot "); for a listing see List of Tosafists.