Rabbi Yitzchak of Carthage

תּוֹלְדוֹת

Rabbi Yitzchak d’min Kartiginin, according to the text of the Vilna Shas, was an amora who lived in Kartiginin (the exact location is disputed – some say ancient Carthage in modern day Tunisia) and who appears in the Gemara a single time. In that one passage he gives the reason for the nine berachot that were established in the Musaf of Rosh Hashanah.

A derasha in the Pesikta d’Rav Kahana on Parah Adumah is brought in the name of Lulyanus bar Tiveris in the name of Rabbi Yitzchak Katriko — that the Holy One said to Moshe: to you I reveal the reckoning of the parah, but to others it is a chok. Shlomo Buber, in his notes to the Pesikta, proposes reading the name there as Kartigeni and identifying its author with Rabbi Yitzchak of Kartiginin.

במקום שהמסורות חלוקות. The manuscripts give the author of that statement as Rabbi Abba Kartigenaya, in whose name the Yerushalmi brings a similar teaching, so that there may have been no amora by the name Rabbi Yitzchak d'min Kartiginin at all. The place itself is identified variously with Carthage, which held a Jewish community when it was a Roman colony; with Cartagena in Spain, the name Kartigena having served in some periods as a general term for the Jews of Spain; and by another approach with a locality in the region of Kurdistan.

לפי גרסת ש"ס וילנא לתלמוד הבבלי, רבי יצחק דמן קרטיגנין היה אמורא תושב קרטיגנין המוזכר בתלמוד פעם אחת בלבד.

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