ir-hakodesh:Sefer mitsvot ha-gadol (The Great Book of Commandments), Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy,
ir-hakodesh:Sefer mitsvot ha-gadol (The Great Book of Commandments), Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522The author of this work, Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy, is among the most distinguished of the Tosafists, the great legal scholars produced by French and German Jewry during the twelfth through fourteenth centuries. R. Moses, who participated in the 1240 Disputation of Paris, also traveled widely in France and Spain, exhorting the masses to renew their commitment to living according to Jewish law. His most lasting literary achievement is the extensive and important work Sefer mitsvot ha-gadol (also known by its acronym Semag), which is based in large part on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah. R. Moses, in correcting for the general lack of sources in the Mishneh Torah, fills his own work with copious citations from the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds and the various aggadic midrashim, as well as from the works of early French and German authorities. -- source link
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