Ritva (other)
Ritva may refer to: * Yom Tov Asevilli, a medieval rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Seville (c. 1260 – 1320) * Ritva, a Finnish and Faroese female given name * Finnish „''ritva''“ = a slender, hanging branch of a birch or a willow * May 27 Events Pre-1600 *1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. *1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...

Yom Tov Asevilli
Yom Tov ben Abraham of Seville ( 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly known by the Hebrew acronym Ritva, ( he, ריטב"א) was a medieval rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Seville, known for his commentaries on the Talmud. Biography Asevilli was born in the city of Seville, Spain around 1260. His name, ''Asevilli'' is itself a topographic surname that identifies him as being from Seville. He was the student of Solomon ibn Adret and Aaron ha-Levy. His works suggest that he spent some time studying in France. He spent most of his life in Zaragoza. He died between 1314 and 1328. He was the rabbi and head of the Yeshiva of Seville in Spain. Writings His commentary on the Talmud was collected and published as a novellae entitled ''Chiddushei Ha-Ritva''. It is one of the most frequently referred-to Talmudic commentators today. Assevilli wrote two versions of his commentary, first an extended one and then a concise one. In general only the ...
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Ritva (given Name)
Ritva is a Finnish and a Faroese female given name. People with the given name Ritva * Hannele Lauri, Ritva Hannele Lauri (born 1952), Finnish actress * Ritva Lemettinen-Melender (born 1960), Finnish long-distance runner * Ritva Puotila (born 1935), Finnish textile designer, artist See also

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Finnish Language
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. The Kven language, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norwegian county Troms og Finnmark by a minority group of Finnish descent. Finnish is typologically agglutinative and uses almost exclusively suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs are inflected depending on their role in the sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, although the extensive use of inflection allows them to be ordered differently. Word order variations are often reserved for differences in information structure. ...
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