דוד בן לוי מנרבונה

Rav David ben Levi of Narbonne was one of the chachmei Provence in the age of the rishonim, who sat as a dayan in Narbonne in the second half of the thirteenth century. His rebbe, as he himself writes in his sefer, was Rav Shmuel ben Shlomo Sekili, and he judged in Narbonne beside Rav Mordechai Kimchi. Little else of his life is known. The date of his petirah has not been confirmed, but he was certainly alive in 5065/1305: in that year his rebbe Rav Shmuel was niftar, and from then on Rav David refers to him as having passed.

He is known for Sefer HaMichtam, a halachic work built on the rulings of the Rif on the Gemara. It covers a number of masechtot, chiefly in Seder Moed — Berachot, Pesachim, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkah, Beitzah, Taanit, Megillah and Moed Katan. Rishonim who came after him bring it, among them the Meiri, the Orchot Chaim and the Kol Bo. The sefer stayed in manuscript for centuries and reached print only in the twentieth century, brought out by Rav Moshe Yehuda HaKohen Blau.