Raphael Nathan Nota Rabinovicz (Rabbinovicz/Rabbinowitz) (1835 – November 28, 1888) authored ''

Dikdukei Soferim Diqduqē Soferim () is the name of a series of books written by Raphael Nathan Nota Rabinovicz (d. 1888) that bring different textual variants of the Babylonian Talmud from the Munich Codex Hebraica 95, which was written in 1342. It is the only ...

'' (Dikdukei Sofrim), a 15-volume work containing variant readings of half the six orders of the ''

Mishna The Mishnah or the Mishna (; , from the verb ''šānā'', "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century CE, it is ...

'' and two tractates of the ''

Babylonian Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the centerpiece of Jewi ...

''. Although he published/republished various other works, including a feature he titled Kunteres Dikdukei Soferim that appeared in a weekly Hebrew-language periodical, his ''magnum opus'' came out between 1867 and 1886. His research included visiting various European libraries. Noteworthy is its introduction's history of printings of the ''Talmud''. A sixteenth volume was published posthumously (1897). The timing of his work enabled him to use one font for the standard (Romm) Talmud and another for variants. One translation of the title "Dikdukei Sofrim" and the idea behind it is "Fine Points of the Oral Law".

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