Rabbenu Chananel | רבנו חננאל

Rabbenu Chananel b. Chushiel (d. 1055/56) was the author of the first Talmud commentary in what would become the Sefardi tradition.

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The centuries-old push-pull between Bavel and Eretz Yisrael came to its effective end in a place no Amora could have imagined: the desert of Tunisia, at the hands of Rabbenu Chananel, who commandeered his dual Italian-African background to bring the two traditions together. pic.twitter.com/u1pz1Mbmc8
— Dr. Tamar Marvin (@tamar_marvin) December 26, 2022