Three Sefardi Halachists: Yitzchak Ibn Ghiyat, Ri Migash, Yehuda bar Barzillai

🌅 The these three early figures represent the flowering of Talmud learning in al-Andalus, proving influential both in the Islamicate world and in the Christian period in Spain.

You’re reading Stories from Jewish History, a weekly newsletter exploring Jewish thinkers, events, and artifacts, from the famous to the obscure. We’ve spent some time with grammarians and poets, who, as we saw, were generally steeped in the culture of Talmud learning. Today we’ll focus on three renowned early Sefardi halachists who, true to form, also …