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Judah of Melun, also known as Rabbi Yehudah ben David of Melun (יהודה ממלון), was a rishon of Tzarfat and one of the Baalei HaTosafot, active during the first half of the 1200s. His father was the tosafist Rabbi David of Melun.
After 1224 he headed the yeshiva in Melun. He is quoted by name, as Rabbi Yehudah of Melun, in the tosafot of Rabbi Peretz of Corbeil on Bava Kamma. In 1240, at the public disputation in Paris, he was among the four rabbis who stood up for the Talmud when Nicholas Donin attacked it.
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Where traditions differ. He may be the same man as the Judah of Metz or Judah of Meaux named in writings of his time, whose best-known talmid was the tosafist Rabbi Avigdor ben Menachem.
Judah of Melun was a French rabbi and tosafist of the first half of the 13th century. He was the son of the tosafist David of Melun.
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