''Haggahot Maimuniyyot'' ( he, הגהות מיימוניות) is a 13th-century
halakhic work authored by
Meir HaKohen
Meir HaKohen was a German rabbinical scholar of the end of the thirteenth century. He authored '' Hagahot Maimuniot'' (or ''Haggahot Maimuniyyot'') (הגהות מיימוניות, abbreviated הגהמי"י) on Maimonides' ''Mishneh Torah''. Giulio ...
. It is one of the most important sources for the halakhic rulings of the scholars of
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
and
France
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, and it is one of the defining halakhic works of the
Ashkenazi tosafists
Tosafists were rabbis of France and Germany, who lived from the 12th to the mid-15th centuries, in the period of Rishonim. The Tosafists composed critical and explanatory glosses (questions, notes, interpretations, rulings and sources) on the Ta ...
. The work consists of supplemental notes () to the ''
Mishneh Torah
The ''Mishneh Torah'' ( he, מִשְׁנֵה תּוֹרָה, , repetition of the Torah), also known as ''Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka'' ( he, ספר יד החזקה, , book of the strong hand, label=none), is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law ('' ...
'' of
Maimonides
Musa ibn Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (); la, Moses Maimonides and also referred to by the acronym Rambam ( he, רמב״ם), was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Tora ...
, with the objective of imparting contemporary
Sephardic thought to Jews in Germany and France, while juxtaposing it to contemporary Ashkenazi halakhic customs.
Publication
The work may originally have been written on the margins of the ''Mishneh Torah'', as it appears in early manuscripts. The first publication was in the 1509
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
edition of the ''Mishneh Torah''. The work was later published again in 1524 in Venice. There are differences between the editions of 1509 and 1524, some of which are material. The wording of the glosses in the Venice edition (from which the later editions were printed) is more original and the author generally speaks in the first person, while the wording of the 1509 edition shows signs of being a later version. Additionally certain passages appear in the Constantinople version which are absent from the Venice version, and vice versa. The Constantinople edition contains additions that may have been added by the editor.
Contents
The work is divided into two sections, the first consisting of notes attached to the ''Mishneh Torah'' itself. The second, called "Teshovot Maimuniyyot", is appended at the end of each book and contains
responsa by German and French scholars relevant to the topics in the body of the work. Eight out of the fourteen books of the ''Mishneh Torah'' contain supplemental notes. The books which are not included in the work are: "Hafla'ah", "Zemanim", "Avodah", "Korbanot", and "Taharah". The work as a whole constitutes an important source for Medieval Ashkenazi rabbinic literature, containing a number of attributed formulations that appear nowhere else.
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References
13th-century books
Hebrew-language books
Rabbinic legal texts and responsa
Sifrei Kodesh