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TOSAFOT [FIRST EDITION]. Tosafot is the Hebrew word that designates the glosses printed alongside the commentary of Rashi (Rabbi Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaq, eleventh-century French sage and commentator) in most editions of the Babylonian Talmud. Yet these tosafot are only a fraction of those composed by the French and German scholars (tosafists) of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The descendants of Rashi and his students edited his commentaries and added glosses to them. Even after these additions became much more extensive than the original commentaries, they continued to be called tosafot (additions). The tosafot emerged from disputations in the Talmudic academies that were recorded by teachers or by students under their direction. Students traveled from place to place recording the novel interpretations of their rabbis, and an academy of study acquired a good name based on the collections of tosafot available there.
Emergence of the Tosafot
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