The Rif
He was born near this city
What is Fez?
He was called this nickname
What is Wandering Sage?
Student of the Rif who became Rosh Yeshiva
Who is Ri Migash?
Jewish law
What is Halacha?
The Rif focused on this instead of debates
What is final halacha?
He became a leader of this city
What is Lucena?
He lived during this group of scholars
What are the Rishonim?
Author of the Kuzari
Who is Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi?
Explains the Mishnah
What is Gemara?
Ibn Ezra believed this helps understand Torah
What is grammar?
His main work was called this
What is Hilchot HaRif?
He traveled from this country
What is Spain?
Famous student chosen at age 26
Who is Ri Migash?
Organizing laws clearly
What is Codification?
The Rif removed this from the Gemara
What are discussions/debates?
He lived from these years
What is 1013–1103?
He commentary on this
What is the Tanakh?
Poet who wrote Tzionim
Who is Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi?
Head of a Yeshiva
What is a Rosh Yeshiva?
Travel in his time was this and this
What are difficult and dangerous?
He arrived in Spain at this age
What is 75?
One of his famous songs
What is Tzamah Nafshi L’Eilokim?
Scholar influences by the Rif
Who is the Rambam?
Early Torah scholars
What are Rishonim?
Why was the Rif's work important
It made halacha clear and easy to understand?