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Rishonim
5070AM

Year 5070 of the Jewish calendar.

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The Rashba (mentioned above year 5040) died in the year 5070, [and Don Yosef ben Yichya, his student colleague, authored for the Rashba and lamented over him]:

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The great Rabbi, Don Yosef ibn Yichya, second son of Don Shlomo, student colleague of the Rashba, was the Rosh Galut (Head of Exile) and father of wisdom in all the kingdom of Castile, and he was beautiful and exceedingly handsome and authored rulings on the Talmud and individual novellae, and he was a great sage in grammar and poetry, [see Shomer HaDat, letter 59, paragraph 2, the lament he made for his son...

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Rabbi Yitzchak (ben Yosef) HaYisraeli, a great sage and distinguished astronomer, authored Sefer HaMesa'adei Yesod Olam, made it in Tulitila in honor of his teacher the Rosh z"l in the year 5070, and Sefer Shem in praise of the Rosh. He also authored Sefer Sha'ar HaShamayim and Sefer HaMeluim, thus in Ma'aseh Efer, chapter 52, and in the Yuchsin [in the generations of the Acharonim] it is written that this was in the year 5072...

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Mordechai bar Hillel authored the Mordechai and was killed for the sanctification of HaShem's Name in the city of Nuremberg in the year 5070. [And I found written in an old manuscript that Mordechai bar Yosef authored the Mordechai HaGadol, and Mordechai HaKatan was authored by Rabbi Shmuel Shiltzat, and in Shomer HaDat, letter 58, section 2, Rabbi Mordechai of Austria, an Ashkenazi, who authored his well-known book around the Rif...

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Rabbi Mordechai bar Hillei and Rabbi Yitzchak bar Hoshe'a, grandson of Rabbi Menachem HaYeoni, were in this generation, as is evident in the Hagahah of the Rambam, the 5th of Ishut, chapter 22, and perhaps this is the Mordechai who wrote on the Rif, [(Shomer HaDat, letter 58, section 2)]:

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Rabbi Moshe of Zurich authored Hagahot around the Smak, as is evident in Maharik section 187, and this is Sefer HaTzurech that is mentioned in the poskim and in Maharik section 122, [(Shomer HaDat, letter 58, section 2)]:

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Rabbi Meir bar Baruch, the author of the responsa, passed away in the year 5070:

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Rabbi Shimon HaDarshan, the author of the Yalkut, Ma'aseh Efer writes in chapter 19 that he copied from the Yalkut of Rabbi Shimon, so it was from the year 5070:

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