שלמה פטיט

Solomon Petit
Rishonim · c. 1050-1500 CE

רבי שלמה פטיט היה חכם שעלה לארץ ישראל בסוף המאה ה-13, והיה לאחד מראשי המקובלים בעכו. נודע בשל היותו אחד ממובילי המאבק בכתבי הרמב"ם.

Solomon Petit was a 13th-century French Tosafist who settled in Acre, Palestine, where he gathered a following of mystics and instigated a new campaign against the philosophical writings of Maimonides. When the Exilarch of Damascus, Yishai ben Chezkiah, learned of the renewed anti-Mainmonist agitation, he threatened Petit with excommunication, which was later invoked. Petit ignored the threats and set off on a mission to Europe to gather signatures from German rabbis endorsing his position.

Shiurim Featuring This Sage

Reasoning · Bava Metzia

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A close reading of the sugya of disputed ownership — and the unstated principle that drives the entire…

Reasoning 3 min