Elijah ben Judah Loeb of Fulda ( he, אליהו מפולדה; 1650s in

Vyzhnytsia Vyzhnytsia (; ; german: link=no, Wischnitz; pl, Wyżnica; ro, Vijnița; ; ) is a town located in the historical region of Bukovina, on the Cheremosh River in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vyzhnytsia R ...

– c. 1720 in Fulda) was the earliest and most important of the early Ashkenazic commentators on the previously neglected

Jerusalem Talmud The Jerusalem Talmud ( he, תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי, translit=Talmud Yerushalmi, often for short), also known as the Palestinian Talmud or Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century ...

. His commentaries on the Jerusalem Talmud were the ''Mahara Fulda'' and its companion, ''Tosefot Maharaf''. These were published in Amsterdam in 1710 (though not in their entirety). Many subsequent commentators refer to him simply as ''HaMefaresh'' (The Commentator). The addenda printed at the end of various early editions of this commentary have been consolidated in glosses called ''He'arot Maharaf''. Elijah ben Judah Loeb lived in Wiznica for most of his life, only settling in Fulda in his later years. His division of his commentary into two parts—Commentary and Novellae—was the model for

David ben Naphtali Fränkel David ben Naphtali Fränkel or David Hirschel Fränkel ( he, דוד בן נפתלי הירש פרנקל; 1704 – 4 April 1762), was a German rabbi. Biography Born in Berlin, for a time he was rabbi of Dessau. He became chief rabbi of Berlin ...

's division into two parts of his ''Korban ha-Edah'' "The Communal Sacrifice." His ''Korban ha-Edah'' (or ''Qorban Ha'edah'') was published posthumously in Dessau in 1743.''The Talmud of the land of Israel: a preliminary translation and commentary'' Volume 19 - Page 176 Jacob Neusner - 1987 - 187 pages Elijah of Fulda, Qorban Hafedah (Dessau, 1743; Berlin, 1757, 1760-62)

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