Abstract
This article seeks to characterize the profile of the ideal rosh yeshiva among the Jewish exiles from Spain and their descendants in early modern times. The article focuses on a source describing how Rabbi Isaac Canpanton taught his disciples. This account of Canpanton, the most important sage of mid-fifteenth-century Spain, is one of the most beautiful testimonies we have of the relationship between a rabbi and his disciple. An analysis of this testimony, along with the other sources presented in the article, reveals the main characteristics of the rabbi-disciple relationship, and explores the connection between this relationship and the method of studying the Talmud known as the Sephardic speculation, as well as the physical conditions in which yeshiva study of the day took place.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Ideal Rosh Yeshiva According to Iberian Sages of the Late Middle Ages |
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| Original language | Hebrew |
| Pages (from-to) | 277-290 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | מורשת ישראל |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2021 |
IHP Publications
- ihp
- Jews -- Education
- Jews -- History -- 17th century
- Jews -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
- Rabbis
- Sephardim
- Social stratification
- Talmud Bavli -- Study and teaching
- Talmud Torah (Judaism)
- Yeshivot -- History